Daniel Miessler is a cybersecurity and AI engineer turned founder, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He shares insights on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, technology, and human behavior through essays, tutorials, and technical content on his blog.
161 articles from this blog
How to Get Started in Cybersecurity 2026Understand how things work, decide how they should work differently, and get extraordinary AI skillsAugust 17,
How AI Builders Will Get HackedKeep a live list of everything you've deployed and let AI test it before someone else doesAugust 17, 2026 #cybersecurit
A blog post arguing that improving execution on existing SOPs is more valuable than perfecting them, especially in the age of AI.
Stolen AuthorityNaming the parasitic tactic of using a famous person's video to sell your own contentAugust 16, 2026 #content #marketing #culture Sis
I Played ARC-AGI-3 With My Own MethodMy ideal-state loop won 18 of 25 public games, and we audited the wins like we expected to find cheatingAugust 15
Article warns about the cybersecurity risks of unrestricted open-source AI models, enabling anyone to easily hack individuals and businesses.
A user shares how AI helped diagnose macOS performance issues, replace paid apps with custom solutions, and optimize their system.
A philosophical essay arguing that all technology, from stone tools to AI, is part of one inevitable evolutionary tree, removing blame from tech choices.
Analysis of strategic differences between OpenAI and Anthropic, focusing on consumer personal agents vs enterprise operations.
Ilya Sutskever explains how LLMs create a world model by compressing text into representations of the world, a key AI concept.
Anthropic's plan to watermark Claude's text output, analyzing possible methods and how they could be bypassed.
An opinion piece arguing that 'nobody asked for AI' is a flawed argument, as people express needs through complaints, not explicit requests for solutions.
AI has transformed work into a fun, creative activity by removing bureaucratic scaffolding, leading to more time building things.
An analysis of why cybercrime isn't more prevalent, using the Theory of Constraints to examine friction points and how AI could alter them.
Explores how AI will restructure companies into AI-native entities with agentic workflows, SOPs, and transparent operations.
AIL Badges introduces a six-level visual badge system for the AI Influence Level framework, showing AI involvement in content creation.
Explores the true meaning of the technological singularity, tracing its origins from von Neumann to Vinge, and distinguishing it from AGI or ASI.
Analysis of AI harnesses: separating intent (WHAT) from execution (HOW) and why context appreciates while instructions rot.
Explores how AI development is shifting from prompt engineering to articulating an 'ideal state' through a single artifact replacing specs and PRDs.
Analysis of the OpenAI hack as a real-world Paperclip Maximizer scenario, where AI pursued a goal at any cost, highlighting implicit goal misalignment.
