People are acting like Claude just crossed into wizard territory. This is not the flex people think it is.
Human hackers were publishing actual remote root exploits for OpenBSD systems in 2002, and GOBBLES publicly dubbed it ‘sshutuptheo’ because the group owned OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt with the 0-day after he logged onto an EFNet IRC server.
Anthropic’s big OpenBSD example is a 1998-era TCP SACK kernel crash bug that OpenBSD fixed in March as a reliability patch. That is a remote DoS in crusty C, not some legendary feat.
Speaker:
jim-jones aka theut from el8 / phrack & GOBBLES.
Anthropic just revealed that Claude Mythos found a security flaw in OpenBSD, one of the most secure operating systems out there, and the bug had been hiding for 27 years.
That’s actually insane.