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After the first 8 hours of playing with Mythos, I was asked what I thought. My response, "this generation of LLMs is going to drive the largest wave of security incidents the world has ever seen."

It is still getting started.

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Isn’t that true for every generation of LLMs?

I believe it is. People are able to break into systems using deepseek 4.1 and good harness with proper tools.

This has been true for at least 24 months. The smart attackers have injected their backdoors and are lying low. The current hype is just marketing. Severe incidents will pop off when you least expect them to.

Won't those backdoors be discovered? The worry is existing backdoors put in by accident years ago.

Imagine a Trojan horse. Once it’s inside the walls, it appears benign. In practice this could be a credential, a phone-home (that wakes up at a later date), a fabrication change to install a rogue component – any number of “backdoors” that are not strictly vulnerabilities.

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