Three Buddy Problem

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Three Buddy Problem - Episode 101: We discuss Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 release and the bombshell that the company was silently downgrading paid users' results, sparking a heated debate over guardrails, gatekeeping, and whether elite AI reasoning is becoming a privilege for the few.

Plus, AI-generated N-day exploits killing the patch window, a record-shattering Patch Tuesday, Meta's latest court filing against spyware maker NSO Group, the return of cyber paleontology, and a detour into the new government UFO drops.

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introductory banter

3:22 - The Mythos 5 / Claude Fable 5 release

14:42 - Anthropic’s silent downgrade trust problem

26:18 - Anti-competitive behavior & the AV "stealing detection" parallel

32:29 - Distillation, China & the real motive

38:04 - "Too dangerous to release" & gatekeeping vs. guardrailing

45:53 - Is Mythos a threat to malware-analysis startups?

48:20 - Dario's AI regulation essay

56:48 - N-day exploits and death of the patch window

1:07:18 - Patch Tuesday and 10x vulnerability surge

1:10:34 - Meta catches NSO Group

1:14:45 - Cyber paleontology, Shadow Brokers leaks

1:28:29 - Moonlight Maze and learning from history

1:34:22 - UFOs, UAPs and Disclosure Day

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Three Buddy Problem - Episode 100: We cover AI eating reverse engineering, the death of the malware report, running local models on the DGX Spark, where Google DeepMind stands, and whether the frontier labs will stay in cybersecurity.

Plus, more on Anthropic's Mythos rollout and the thinly sourced Anthropic-NSA reports, the Fast16 sabotage of physics calculations, what researchers choose not to publish, Microsoft's bad Black Hat email, and Costin's Friday UFO files.

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

Timestamps:

0:00 - JAGS at InfoSecurity Europe

3:40 - Sponsor: TLPBLACK

5:54 - A roadmap for security after the AI revolution

11:01 - Stripe Atlas and how easy it is to start a company

15:00 - If anyone could reverse engineer anything for $5

19:49 - Layoffs at Google's Threat Intelligence Group

21:06 - The death of reading the report

27:53 - Pitting the AI models against each other

32:07 - Grok, local models, and the DGX Spark

39:27 - Where is Google DeepMind?

45:29 - Will the frontier labs stay in cybersecurity?

52:41 - Mythos, Project Glasswing, and the NSA deal

1:16:33 - FAST16, Stuxnet, and sabotaging Iran's bomb

1:57:52 - Microsoft, Black Hat, and the chilling effect

2:14:14 - Shout-outs, UFO files, and 100 episodes

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Three Buddy Problem - Episode 99: Microsoft is now threatening legal action against researchers who drop zero-days. We debate whether it's a fair line against extortion, or amateur-hour PR from a company that already torched its own research community? Costin plays reluctant defender, JAGS says the damage was done years ago, and Ryan reopens the long history of silent fixes and stolen bounties.

Plus, on the 10th anniversary of the Shadow Brokers leak, we discuss some enduring mysteries, theories on attribution and an interesting trail that leads to Edward Snowden.

We also unpack Rob Joyce's warning that China's cyber explosives are already planted in US infrastructure, and the Pope's warnings about around artificial intelligence.

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introductory banter

2:03 - The Pope's AI paper

3:35 - New sponsor: Brandon Dixon's Ent Security

9:34 - Costin's Chinese-model OSINT rabbit hole

13:34 - Codex, GPT-5.5, and the "American AI welfare state"

23:20 - Microsoft threatens vulnerability researchers

27:06 - Is it extortion or retribution? The disclosure fight

40:48 - How Microsoft's consultant class broke MSRC and MSTIC

48:42 - Silent fixes, stolen bounties, and the marketing machine

1:02:29 - Ten years of the Shadow Brokers

1:14:20 - The Snowden theory

1:32:34 - Rob Joyce: China's cyber explosives are in place

1:53:26 - Shout-outs

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Three Buddy Problem x Ekoparty Miami: Aaron Portnoy (Zero Day Initiative alum, early Pwn2Own organizer, and now at Mindgard) joins us at Ekoparty Miami to reminisce on the early days of the hacking contest, where vulnerabilities actually live (the boundaries between systems, not inside them), why LLMs will take out the trash but can't dream up the next speculative-execution-class bug, and the coming patching apocalypse when discovery 10x's overnight.

Plus, why your SOC is a forensic historian, the promise of hijacking an attacker's reward loop with deception tech, and the legendary story of carrying a Walmart "fat stack" of cash to bootstrap Ekoparty in Buenos Aires.

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Aaron Portnoy.

Timestamps:

0:00 — Introductory banter

1:17 — Dropping out, iDefense, and getting good at reversing everything

2:19 — How Pwn2Own got started

4:15 — The most impressive Pwn2Own ever: Nils, VUPEN, and exploit "art"

5:59 — "iPhone hacked in 30 seconds" — and the 18 months behind it

6:41 — Does Pwn2Own still have a place in the AI era?

9:16 — Why LLMs take out the trash but can't invent the next bug class

12:48 — Will LLMs deliver new mitigation classes? Aaron's skeptical

18:34 — The place of the human when the easy bugs run dry

21:08 — Cognitive offloading, Halvar's warning, and skill rot

22:39 — Decompiling 800k functions: Aaron's LLM "holy shit" moment

25:26 — The patching apocalypse and why "assume breach" breaks

28:15 — Compounding asymmetries: why offense just transcended defense

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Three Buddy Problem x Ekoparty Miami: Perri Adams of DARPA AIxCC fame joins the show to chat about proof engines, formal methods, and why LLMs just made a once-niche corner of computer science suddenly essential.

We get into why verifiers and proof engines are the key to effective AI, why vulnerability research is so far ahead of threat intel, and the case for baking security checks directly into code generation tools like Claude Code and Codex.

Plus, designing a multi-million dollar challenge that's allowed to fail, the Mythos "too dangerous to release" debate, and musings on every LLM-discovered bug being a public bug by default.

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Perri Adams.

Timestamps:

0:00 — Introductory banter

1:09 — Why LLMs just made formal methods relevant again

4:03 — Proof engines, explained

8:43 — Can a layman grab this fire? The calculus problem

11:58 — Vuln researchers are scrappy kids with a trust fund

14:55 — Pitching AIxCC inside DARPA: hard sell or easy sell?

18:00 — Designing a challenge that's allowed to fail

22:06 — Inside Team Atlanta's 150-page winning system

24:00 — Why this is bigger for defense than for offense

31:49 — Mythos, safeguards, and "every LLM bug is a public bug"