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John von Neumann was guarded by military personnel on his deathbed
“One of Shannon's fellow NSA scientific advisors, John Van Neumann, was watched around the clock by uniformed military personnel when he was on his deathbed.”
Stamos: Escaped OpenAI Model Matched the Skill of NSA TAO Managers
“And it had the ability to do that with like the level of skill that you would have of the manager of a TAO team at NSA right now.”
Stamos: OpenAI and Anthropic Should Not Train Models to Hide Intrusions
“What you should be training it to do is find bugs. You should be training to write proof of concepts. You should be training it to do all the defensive stuff. You should not be training it. To hide it. To hide all those things. Like if the US government wants …”
Amazon hosts Anthropic's AI models across classified government cloud environments
“Amazon hosts Anthropics models in the, in what they call bedrock. This includes in all of the classified spaces. So if the NSA is using Anthropics models. It is running in AWS secret cloud or top secret cloud.”
Coogan: Anthropic Halted Mythos After Model Hacked NSA Systems in Red-Teaming
“There was, of course, that news that the NSA commented that Mythos was able to hack into a bunch of their systems. That was during a red teaming exercise. The unprecedented intervention led Anthropik to halt all access to comply with the new rule.”
Early Oracle Won Deals Across Major US Intelligence Agencies
“We had won several deals, the CIA, Navy intelligence, air force intelligence, and the NSA.”
Hanslovan: Military cyber intelligence is used for lethal "kinetic uninstalls"
“And you're like, okay, I got to gather this intelligence on this person, but by you gathering that intelligence on that person, the kinetic side of the military does what they call a kinetic uninstall. That means usually they dropped a bomb on a bad guy.”
Hanslovan: Multiple foreign nation-state hackers often compromise the same target simultaneously
“When you're gathering intelligence, sometimes many countries are trying to gather intelligence on the same target. So we sometimes might know that other adversaries could be on the same exact computer and we would see them and going, we know they're there, but…”
Moore: Maryland's federal assets make it the US cyber capital
“When you have the NSA, and you have U.S. Cyber Command, and you have the Naval Academy, and you have the FBI, there is no reason for you not to be the cyber capital of this country.”
Haidt: Tech platforms cannot stop foreign disinformation without intelligence agency coordination
“Yes, of course they took some easy steps, but there is no way they can get a handle on this. This has to be, and I think they call it for this. This has to be a sort of a government-wide partnership between Coordinated between the CIA, the FBI, NSA, Facebook, …”
Weiss: Unit 8200 focuses solely on intelligence collection, unlike the NSA
“That's a separate body. So there was, so that's actually a difference from the NSA. The NSA is responsible both for securing the infrastructures and intelligence monitoring. The ISNU or AD-D-E-Hundred is only responsible for intelligence.”
Dan Held: 50% chance Hal Finney was Satoshi, 20% chance the NSA
“This is super tough, but maybe like 50% Hal Finney 30% Nick Szabo and 20% NSA.”
Wilcox: The NSA led a government faction opposing early HTTPS encryption
“There was a faction within the US government led by the NSA that objected to the development of HTTPS.”
Edward Snowden exfiltrated NSA data undetected for months
“NSA, which is part of the Department of Defense, that's what Edward Snowden did. And he wasn't caught in the act over a period of months doing something that had no reasonable association with his job, ah, at all.”
Andreessen: Every major government agency and corporation will inevitably face a Snowden
“And so, not only will there be a Snowden for the NSA, there will be a Snowden for the Chinese state security agency. There will be a Snowden for GCHQ. There will be a Snowden for Citibank, and on, and basically we'll all have Snowdens.”