JD Work

Former intel, now academic @NDU_CIC, @TheKrulakCenter, @SIWPSColumbia @ColumbiaSIPA, @CyberStatecraft, @ElliottSchoolGW, @PAISWarwick. Apolitical, views=own

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

For all the works, and long conversations, on the topic of intelligence failure - we thank you. RIP.

[UChicago Law School @UChicagoLaw]

We mourn the loss of Senior Lecturer Richard Allen Posner, a longtime #UChicagoLaw scholar, former federal appellate judge, and pioneer in the field of law and economics, who died on November 10.

Read more about his legacy: https://t.co/PhOaZWZIAN

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

To serve, and to serve in silence, remains an honour.

Remember those who have kept honour.

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

It is impossible to convey the impact of certain ideas, and the moment they are encapsulated in a very particular medium. Three decades on this became required reading in the context of executive orders, and debates over weaponized memory safety. To the great discomfort of shallow policy wonks forced to confront the vast gulf of their ignorance when staring at code.

[Phrack Zine @phrack]

30 years ago today, Phrack 49 published Aleph One’s “Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit”.

A legendary paper that inspired generations of hackers and helped shape modern exploit development.

Still an essential reading.

https://t.co/qAQ5CWgNj0

Phrack 73 is coming soon!

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

A new model of the universe described by “tired light” is about the most 2020s cosmology one could write.

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

Some tech savvy lawyers are likely going to make bank on litigation against deprivation of rights under color of law in the wake of attempts to ban superintelligence, where the precedent of code as speech that was set in the cypherpunk wars of the 90s will undoubtedly trace a direct lineage. But even having to see such matters in court is a regrettable lawfare own goal weighed in terms of international economic competitiveness.

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

@mouthofmorrison How good is good enough? When I can find every hidden evil across FI targets, in real time, despite any concealment or denial attempts. At scale, to protect America and our allies.

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

Dealing with adversaries who have deliberately targeted civilian populations repeatedly over extended periods across different conflicts, and folks are somehow surprised when another incident is disclosed where intentional LOAC violations are unmistakable. Almost as if aspirational norms are entirely one sided alone.

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

@chrisrohlf The technical debt collector may be more efficient in its superintelligence incarnation, but when the debit is longstanding enough a dark ages taxman will suffice to do harm.

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

A good futurist ought be able to not only predict the helicopter landing at the high altitude expedition peak base camp, but the Class A mishap when the overly commoditized luxury lifestyle experience sales package intersects the normal accident curve of a mid tier resort valet parking lot.

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

As we have learned since the days of ea nasir, the copybook headings do have a means of finding equilibrium. Even when distorted by attempted state enforced monopoly. A different metal and a different scribe will not change this. But it may not be a pleasant process along the way.

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

One day sooner than we think: instead of abandoning our own RAM, we will collectively look back on the idea of single centralized frontier superintelligence in the same way we remember Microtel terminals. A promising but ultimately abandoned tech tree collapsed under the planning problem and the Potemkin illusions of censorship regimes.

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

@defendtheworld “Heisenbug” is an excellent linchpin in diagnosis of the current exacerbated problem space.

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

New vault placard for when you want to keep the EW folks out of the cyber meeting

[eric ゑリｯ久 @shinobu_books]

Tokyo developed new anti-crow posters to put up around trash collection sites. They feature geometric shapes幾何的 and eyes which apparently put crows on their guard

However, as the effect only lasts for a few days, the cities prepared several different types

The crow population in Tokyo has gone down from 36,000 in 2001 to 7500 today

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

@CharlesDardaman I suspect you are right. But one still has hopes for a viable output traceability solution, at some point. But this may be one of those ideas that seemed reasonable thinking about this technology as an abstract future that just falls apart in the real instances.

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

What’s the over / under on time to defeat novel Claude watermarking? And will it be security researchers first, or ordinary highly motivated student academics that make the breakthrough?

[FBI Cyber Branch @FBICyberBranch]

The FBI is releasing information advising the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was responsible for the theft of more than $6 billion USD in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, on or about October 29, 2026. The FBI refers to this specific North Korean malicious cyber activity as "TraderTraitor."

The FBI, together with partners at the USSS and IRS-CI, has observed TraderTraitor actors converting stolen assets primarily into Ethereum (ETH). It is expected these assets will then be further laundered by converting them using DeFi and instant swap services as they prepare them for further laundering stages.

How You Can Help:
FBI, USSS, and IRS-CI are urging private sector entities including THORNode operators, RPC node operators, instant exchanges, DeFi services, blockchain analytics firms, and other virtual asset service providers to block transactions with or derived from addresses TraderTraitor actors are using to launder these stolen assets.

A list of addresses associated with this activity is available here: https://t.co/g0oIWx0WeD

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

@timhwang New HUMINTers mission statement just dropped.

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

Perhaps the best analytic definition of the events in Poland is a wordcel coup. One fears others watching intending the same playbook may learn the gulf between dubious policy assertions issued without prior precedent, and systempunkt control dynamics

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

@jcanfil You could have written the intro textbook from this theme had this just been a decade ago.

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

When researchers said no more free bugs, this also included “no more bugs at prices so far below market rate they become effectively free”.