Earlier in August, cryptography professor Matthew Green wrote a controversial thread on X and a longer blog post that went viral within the cybersecurity community. Green, who has long been a close observer of the debate around the use of hacking tools by governments to fight crime and the need for strong encryption to protect
For months, AI giants have devised special vetted programs and strict barriers to limit the use of their models by malicious hackers. But these limits are now hindering the work of legitimate network defenders, as well as offensive cybersecurity researchers. In June, the US government imposed export control restrictions on Anthropic, Mythos and Fable’s much-hyped
