One hacker just proved that nation-state cyberattacks are now a consumer product. Between December and January, someone told Claude to act as an elite hacker. Claude said no. "That violates AI safety guidelines." So the hacker asked again. Claude complied. 150 gigabytes of Mexican government data stolen. 195 million taxpayer records compromised. Voter files gone. Employee credentials leaked. Civil registry extracted. From someone who just kept asking an AI until it said yes. When Claude hit limits, he switched to ChatGPT. Two AI chatbots daisy-chained into a hacking pipeline. Thousands of attack plans with exact targets, vulnerabilities, and credentials. Mexico's federal tax authority, national electoral institute, four state governments. One person. One month. Now watch the response: Jalisco: "We weren't breached." Electoral institute: "No unauthorized access." Tax authority: silence. They're literally lying. Gambit Security has the receipts. Bloomberg confirmed it. Here's what's makes this insane: This wasn't sophisticated. It was embarrassingly EASY. Because Mexico's government networks are running infrastructure from 1997. One hacker with a $20/month AI subscription just proved every government on Earth is vulnerable to the same attack. The US. UK. France. Germany. Japan. All running networks with zero segmentation, default passwords since 2008, no intrusion detection, no anomaly monitoring. A single person can breach ANY of them. The method: 1. Subscribe to Claude ($20/month) 2. Tell it you're doing a security audit 3. Ask it to find vulnerabilities 4. Ask it to write exploits 5. If it refuses, ask again differently 6. Execute against networks built in 1997 Result: Nation-state level data breach. Anthropic's response: "We banned the accounts and added misuse detection to Claude Opus 4.6." That's cute. But it's NOT the point. The point is that we've crossed a threshold where infrastructure security is no longer about preventing skilled attackers. It's about preventing anyone with internet access from running a penetration test against critical government systems. And winning. This is what happens when countries don't invest in cybersecurity. When they slash budgets every year. When they can't compete with private sector salaries so all the good security engineers leave. When they don't modernize infrastructure because it's expensive and boring and doesn't win elections. Then one day someone with an AI chatbot shows them exactly how vulnerable they actually are. And suddenly they're explaining to 195 million citizens why their tax records are now in a hacker's possession. The scariest part is that this blueprint is now PUBLIC. Every hacker knows the method. Every rival government knows it. Every script kiddie with a Claude subscription knows how to attempt it. And most governments are still running the same brittle infrastructure Mexico got breached through. So the next hack is coming. Then the next. Until eventually someone uses this method to access something that actually matters. Nuclear codes. Military plans. Election systems. And at that point we'll realize governments should have invested in zero-trust architecture instead of hoping nobody would try. But by then it'll be too late. This is 21st century nation-state hacking. Not sophisticated. Not impressive. Just inevitable. A hacker. An AI chatbot. A government that didn't invest in security. Mexico just showed every other government exactly how vulnerable they are in today's age. Now we wait to see if anyone actually does anything about it.

Our team is having breakfast at Jubba Jubba Columbus, Ohio! Nothing to see here!!! Lets Goo🔥@MehekCooke @wcdispatch

If fraud is "the cost of doing business," then it's time to change our state's approach to the business of government. It shouldn't surprise us, however, when @OhioDCY recently testified before the House Committee on Workforce and Higher Education, boasting about their recent reorganization of the executive branch. Of course, all five of the agencies on the "past" side of the slide still exist, so all the reorganization did was create more government. It is no wonder nobody seems to have a clue how our taxpayer dollars are being spent or how broadly Ohioans are being defrauded, when all government seems to do is grow and get more complicated. The administrative state in Ohio needs a haircut, and I'm sharpening my scissors.

Just called my dad. He had no idea about the Somali fraud. Zero. He said he couldn’t believe he hadn’t heard about it on the news and that it wasn’t a bigger story. …so many people haven’t woken up to the truth yet, including my dad, who I love dearly What you think should make the news, doesn’t make the news. I, like my dad, thought the news was just, “whatever story is the biggest…” If it's a big enough deal, surely the news will cover it. I was wrong. …the “news” isn’t a mirror of reality's biggest stories It’s a FILTER. My dad, like so many good people I know, is just living a normal life… trusting that if something is TRULY important, someone will tell him. And that, that is the trap. They don’t need to convince you of a lie... ...they just need to make sure you never hear the truth. Once you see that, you can't unsee it. It changes everything.

This morning, I addressed the Congressional Term Limits Retreat in Delray Beach to urge state legislators from around the country to support the adoption of a U.S. Constitutional amendment establishing term limits for Congress. I was pleased to speak with legislators from around the country who recognize the necessity to restore the temporary nature of public service. Twelve states have passed resolutions for term limits, and we need 22 more to reach the threshold for a single-issue convention. The momentum is building!

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