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Ciaran Martin

@ciaranm.bsky.social
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you’re having a difficult day, spare a thought for the Senator who after years of doing whatever Trump wanted opposed him over a bill on daylight savings time only to have the president post his cell phone number on the Internet with an appeal for everyone to call him
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The National Cyber Security Centre is ten years old today It was nice to pop in to celebrate earlier in the week
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Making tea with my new purchase from the Anthropic store
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was wrong. It’s happening
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Definitely. Just like poor, deceived, wronged Carmela Soprano in that show
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kash Patel should resign in disgrace. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
Ciaran Martin, the former head of Britain’s cyberdefense agency, said the F.B.I. hack likely had “huge impact on the operational capability” of the bureau and could rank as one of the most consequential data breaches in history — graver even than the Office of Personnel Management burglary.

“Losing the data on 20 million federal employees to the Chinese was bad,” Mr. Martin said. “But you knew the Chinese weren’t going to sell or publish it.”
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Losing the data on 20 million federal employees to the Chinese was bad. But you knew the Chinese weren’t going to sell or publish it.” Me in The New York Times ($, £) on why the hack of the FBI could, if confirmed, be one of the worst data breaches of all time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Also from The Premier League today: - White Star Lines “negligent” over Titanic: - Sir Charles Trevelyan’s response to Irish Famine “inadequate” - “Lessons to be learned” from Black Death
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Spoke to the BBC yesterday (7min25) about the FBI hack: if confirmed, one of the worst data breaches in history (And then ranted about why so few are paying attention to this because they’re worrying about an AI agent reading a website because y’know, AI) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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World at One - Hackers claim to have details of all FBI agents - BBC Sounds
The Agency says it is "aggressively investigating" the apparent breach of its system
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My thoughts on how frontier AI’s claims and warnings seem prone to colliding with reality, whether that’s in economics, medicine or cyber security ciaranmartin.substack.com/p/on-ai-clai...
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Frontier AI’s real world problems
Many of the claims and warnings about the impact of frontier AI seem to collide awkwardly with the realities of the specific subject in question
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Layer 8½ @mbrookspetersen.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
Is it deterministic? - No. Determinism was constraining our ability to ship. Has Gaslight ever made a mistake? - No. A mistake is a deviation that has been acknowledged. None have been. Gold.
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If your brain and sense of humour works the same way as mine, and someone sends you this website, your day is over gaslightai.dev
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Gaslight AI — Infrastructure as Intent
An AI-native fork of Terraform. You write HCL. Gaslight determines what you meant, applies something close to it, and writes a state file explaining why that was the right call.
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🤢
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ok if I achieve nothing else today I got the phrase “cult of the machine gods” into a live BBC interview
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2/2 * it emerges that in yet another incident from the summer of frontier AI testing fiascos a (presumably unmonitored, because it happened back in June) OpenAI agent accessed an Australian gov’t website and didn’t do anything. This is leading the morning news because the Machine God is alive.
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two stories 1/2 * a group of not-far-off script-kiddies who have some UK links claim to have hacked into the world’s premier law enforcement agency and walked off with the names, home addresses, spousal details etc of thousands of current & prospective FBI agents. No one in the UK seems to care;
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ralphie Milne?
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sir Jim Ratcliffe replies: “I’d never have signed Eric Cantona. He’s really good at football so totally unsuitable for Manchester United under my leadership”.
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Feel as sick as a (stochastic) parrot with all this doomerism
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When someone else expresses your worldview better than you can
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great article. It’s maddening. As your post implies if there’d been the slightest hint of AI in the attack we’d never have heard the end of it. But it’s boring old cyber so no one cares
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This is a good note to end the week. The plight of @britishlibrary.bsky.social has been picked up in @nature.com’s influential daily briefing. Thanks everyone (including @floragraham.bsky.social) who is getting the word out there about our national library us17.campaign-archive.com?u=2c6057c528...
Don't ignore the crisis at the British Library
In 2023, one of the world's most significant libraries was hit with a cyber attack that destroyed multiple systems, requiring that its entire technology infrastructure be rebuilt and costing millions. Staff at the British Library say that the attack undermined the working environment, and more than 300 are on strike. The Library's chief executive has resigned, less than a year after she took the position. And some material is still not available to scholars.
"Libraries and archives are the labs of humanities and social science scholars, and history is not possible without them," argues Hetan Shah, the chief executive of The British Academy. "The nation rightly values scientific infrastructure, but it pays extraordinarily little attention to what is happening at our national library."
Museums Journal | 3 min read & City AM | 4 min read
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"People of Britain! Let a bunch of tax exiles run your country like Man United" is such a daring slogan I think Reform UK should adopt it at once.
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And then use their next crypto donation to sign us a decent centre half
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's hard enough being a United fan at the moment without Ratcliffe suggesting we run the whole country like this.
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Absolutely right. Mr Burnham must run Britain just like Sir Jim Ratcliffe has run Manchester United. Like Britain, ManU was once a proud global giant. But like the UK, the club had entered a lengthy period of stagnation. Since Ratcliffe took over at Man Utd this once proud club has oh wait
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Decent of the ManU players to prove Sir Jim’s comments so wrong so quickly
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thank you!
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As a Man Utd fan I find it easy provide evidence for the critical flaw in Sir Jim’s argument in The Times today. I believe it’s known as the league table.
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No it’s cannabis
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s 30 years since I first heard it but I will never get used to the in-flight announcement casually warning me that I might be put to death on entering Singapore and then casually moving on to “and there’s a lounge for transit passengers”
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yeah maybe he should have recognised Hawaiian self determination and called for the reunification of Mexico with Texas or something 😀🤷
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AlexSa @netalexx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Guide to Attacking AI Agents
darkmarc.substack.com
The Hacker's Guide to Attacking AI Agents
This is a practical guide to assessing the security of an agentic AI system.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 16/09/2026
European fintech firm Revolut gave hundreds of its customers’ data to someone masquerading as a government agency—and the customers are angry.
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Europe’s Most Valuable Startup Gave Data to a Scammer. Now It Faces a Shakedown.
The European fintech firm handed hundreds of its customers’ data to someone posing as a government agency.
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thanks. I got nowhere to go 😀
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is excellent viewing - polemical but technically sound - on the AI & cyber security freakout. Come for the orphan crushing machine & stay for the vial of smallpox being carried down the street From @malwaretech.com m.youtube.com/watch?v=KMf2...
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Cybersecurity Has An AI Doomer Problem.
YouTube video by Marcus Hutchins
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Well that is something to care about. Sydney Sweeney is not. When I first heard the name I thought it was some 17th century Anglican cleric or something
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Gadi Evron @gadievron.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I am an optimist and believe in a bright future for humanity with AI. I’m also a realist, and believe we must accept things as they are first - which can sound doomer-ish. I’ll summarize, but am happy to engage further. A thread
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I mean bizarre yet entertaining sums it up nicely sir!
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Your guess is as good as mine but for the little it’s worth i don’t think it changes anything on the ground & says more about the modern US than it does about either the uk or Ireland. Given that, & the fact there’s a cost to rowing with Trump, I don’t think the PM betrayed anyone by silence
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Agree with that too. Here’s the proof ciaranmartin.substack.com/p/ancient-ba...
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Ancient Babylon, AI, and Cyber Security
A four-thousand year old legal principle is critical to sorting out the increasingly messy and misunderstood interface between frontier AI and cyber security
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My latest on the AI and cyber stuff www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-pac...
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AI pacing: the call and the claim
The Anthropic boss chose a very sloppy, easily dismantled example from cyber security with which to lead his call to pace the frontier. That was a mistake, but shouldn't undermine the force of the int...
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oh I don’t disapprove. It was great fun. Just very strange!
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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"when you design these systems, you're building a pinball machine for words, with different levers interacting to bounce the steel ball of language moving against other levers and mechanisms…you have to be aware of how your levers interact with each other and the people pulling them" Great metaphor
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Models Don't Go Rogue
Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Great poll but fundamentally compromised by the absence of a “don’t care” option
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Arriving in Melbourne to thousands of NFL fans is just weird
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In which I’m nice about an Anthropic report because it’s actually about what attackers are doing with AI not magic bug exploitation by “rogue” agents. And it’s realistic and balanced. This can be done! www.linkedin.com/posts/cyberc...
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As someone who has been very critical of the FUD around AI & cyber security, there’s a lot to commend this report by Anthropic on the misuse of AI. These extracts are from the cyber section, the… ...
As someone who has been very critical of the FUD around AI & cyber security, there’s a lot to commend this report by Anthropic on the misuse of AI. These extracts are from the cyber section, the first...
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