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Ep. 4 11:17 listen

A barn find, in shell script

TIGER audited Unix systems in 1993 and was last released in 2008. I pulled it out of the shed, ran it on a 2026 Linux Mint desktop, and got 49,651 lines back. By the evening it was 318, and most of those were worth reading. This is what waking up old code is actually like.

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The filter will not save you

I spent a day reading the AI security papers that matter, with primary sources open rather than vendor summaries. Prompt injection is structural, most defences collapse under adaptive attack, and what survives is architecture.