I think Tridge is simultaneously trying to be proactive and kinda giving too much credit to marketing. Anthropic has not been able to really give numbers or actual values on what Mythos can really do. It just waved Mythos in front of the public like a boogeyman screaming that AI is going to cause a security nightmare (and it has, but mostly through vibe coded trash from what I’ve noticed); I’m hard pressed to find their statement that they spent less than $20,000 to find a Kerberos bug in FreeBSD a compelling win without
a lot more context and they seem disinclined to provide that data. I really do wonder what evidence they have provided to their approved partners, all of this smells…weird.
I honestly think the main problem is Tridge just failed at communicating any of this correctly and I don’t think the implication he gives that all of this was due to the urgency of the impending security apocalypse really holds water.
Why was all of this written straight to the master branch? Now that the release is out, why not better explain what the urgency of this release was? Why wasn’t he proactive in communicating this and instead let the mob make up their own story? I think a lot of people are inclined to give Tridge a lot of leeway due to the fact that he literally is the reason why rsync exists, but this was avoidable and I think the comment in his response post where he mentions that, “I’d rather be out sailing than working on rsync security issues, so I have reached for several AI tools to help with what needs to be done,” speaks volumes as to what is going on.
I honestly think the main problem is Tridge just failed at communicating any of this correctly and I don’t think the implication he gives that all of this was due to the urgency of the impending security apocalypse really holds water.
Why was all of this written straight to the master branch? Now that the release is out, why not better explain what the urgency of this release was? Why wasn’t he proactive in communicating this and instead let the mob make up their own story? I think a lot of people are inclined to give Tridge a lot of leeway due to the fact that he literally is the reason why rsync exists, but this was avoidable and I think the comment in his response post where he mentions that, “I’d rather be out sailing than working on rsync security issues, so I have reached for several AI tools to help with what needs to be done,” speaks volumes as to what is going on.