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Peter Wildeford... @peterwildef... — 4h Sen Warner claimed that he was told by the head of the NSA and Cyber Command that Mythos was breaking into classified systems in hours. This is an important claim to understand better. I thought Mythos was very good at cybersecurity …but "break into classified systems in hours" good? NSA classified networks are physically disconnected from the internet entirely, with specialized hardware controlling what data can even cross between them. More plausible readings of what actually happened: - This was a simulated exercise against replica systems, not the real NSA network - Mythos was given the relevant code and architecture docs upfront, rather than breaking in blind - It tore through poorly-secured internal IT that got described as "classified systems" - Mythos was operated with significant additional tooling and human expertise (Of course, none of this means that Mythos's underlying cyber capability isn't alarming! An AI that compresses weeks of expert security research into hours is a genuine threat to systems that *are* connected to networks, as we've seen.) [quoted tweet] Tim Schnabel @TimSchnabel — Jun 11 On Mythos, from @MarkWarner in this morning's Senate Banking hearing: "the head of the NSA and Cyber Command came and said this tool broke into almost all of our classified systems, not in weeks, but in hours"; I had not seen that ...