Diogo Mónica
Portuguese security engineer and investor; co-founder and executive chairman of Anchorage Digital and a general partner at Haun Ventures. Previously led security at Docker and platform security at Square. Writes a blog on AI, crypto and venture investing.
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Their wordsthe escapes are real. They are also basically the palm tree scene all over again. The models behaved like drunk pirates. They were loud: Hugging Face reconstructed roughly 17,600 actions over four and a half days, one every twenty seconds, in view of the cameras.
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Their wordsWith models, abstract objectives can now become fully adaptive attack campaigns without human involvement.
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Their wordsWe also have to contend with the fact that these models are amazing at reverse engineering. This means that every security update will now always lead to a spike in n-day exploits in the wild.
- 4 weeks earlier
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Unicorn status is often a marketing event, and the money that follows is often of lower quality.
Their wordsThe conclusion matches what we already intuitively knew: unicorn status is in many cases a marketing event, and the money that shows up afterward is often of lower quality.
- 22 months earlier
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Their wordsPerfect global coordination to suppress stablecoins is highly unlikely.
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Their wordsFor the United States specifically, dollar-backed stablecoins-which constitute almost the entirety of the market today-may actually reinforce U.S. dollar hegemony, extending the reach of the dollar into previously inaccessible corners of the global economy and bringing more activity under the purview of U.S. regulators and law enforcement.
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Their wordsUnlike the opaque world of correspondent banking and the eurodollar market, stablecoin transactions have the potential to be highly traceable, whether because transactions are recorded on public blockchains or because of cryptographic technology like ZK.
- 6 years earlier
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Their wordsLeadership-based approaches are not necessarily more effective than pure command.
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Their wordsAny framework using the model "Leaders do 'A,' while commanders do 'B,'" is wrong. If they are any good, both leaders and commanders will do the exact same things: the right ones.
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Their wordsFurthermore, neither way is better than the other. Both may work or fail in different contexts and at different times. There are times for leadership, and there are times for command.
- 23 months earlier
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Their wordsOverall, secrets in ENV variables break the principle of least surprise, are a bad practice, and will lead to the eventual leak of secrets.
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Their wordsHaving an easy-to-use, secure-by-default secret distribution mechanism is exactly what developers and ops need to solve the secrets management problem once and for all.