Before Anthropic's Mythos there was SATAN: what the 1995 scanner panic does and doesn't teach
maier_ak · x · 2026-09-25
Drawing on the 1995 SATAN scanner panic: Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema's tool only matched networks against a static list of known flaws — it couldn't discover new bugs or write exploits. Despite 10,000 downloads in weeks and press warnings of "rocket launchers" for the internet, the predicted collapse never happened. Anthropic's Mythos is categorically different: it reads arbitrary code, finds unknown vulnerabilities and can generate exploits — and access is now controlled by a private firm.
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