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Frode Weierud

@frode-weierud.bsky.social

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Retired CERN engineer seriously interested in cryptology and its history. Enjoys ham radio, code breaking, programming, reading, walking and good coffee. AKA LA2RL.

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Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have just published a short note on the latest AI-assisted breaking of two Enigma messages from 11 July 1941: AWTZK and ZNLZT. cryptocellar.org/bgac/the-awt...

cryptocellar.org

The AWTZK and ZNLZT Breaks

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

TechCrunch has just published an article about the AI-assisted breaking of the Enigma messages MVUEH and FMNGI. techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/a...

Astra and Opus just passed Turing's other test | TechCrunch

Frontier AI models are finishing Alan Turing's World War II codebreaking work.

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have just published a small note on the AI-assisted break of the Enigma message FMNGI of 31 July 1941. The break was inspired by the already well-published MVUEH break. cryptocellar.org/bgac/the-fmn...

cryptocellar.org

The FMNGI Break

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have just learned that the MVUEH break inspired another attack on one of our unbroken Enigma messages. On 20 September 2026, the 63-letter-long Enigma message Nr. 205 NF / Nr. 285 FMNGI of 31 July 1941 was successfully broken with the help of Anthropic Claude Opus 5.

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Some people believe they are Napoleon; others believe they are the king. A few believe they are Jesus; Donald Trump believes he is God.

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Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

First autonomous AI break of a 82-letter long German Enigma message that has resisted breaking attempts since 2005. www.linkedin.com/posts/carter...

Two days ago, OpenAI GPT-6 Astra on Extra High broke a yet unsolved German Army Enigma message from 1941 in roughly 10 hours. Amazingly Astra was able to autonomously: - Search historical archives -…...

Two days ago, OpenAI GPT-6 Astra on Extra High broke a yet unsolved German Army Enigma message from 1941 in roughly 10 hours. Amazingly Astra was able to autonomously: - Search historical archives - ...

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I love the Irish. I am proud to say they are part of my family.

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Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This says it all. The world's biggest ASSHOLE is Donald Trump.

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Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ukraine, increase your attacks on Russian oil installations. This way, you can piss off Putin and Trump in one go.

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Ronald Hemenway @rehemenway.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The start of the END . . . 🙂

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The NSA is about to undergo its biggest internal institutional shake-up in at least a decade, my @washingtonpost.com colleagues and I report: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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National Security Agency launches historic restructuring

Gen. Joshua M. Rudd is retooling the massive spy agency to focus on priorities including AI, China and cybersecurity.

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Criminal use of AI is increasing. www.anthropic.com/threat-intel...

Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic

Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse.

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Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today, floating in the sewers, we find something ugly going under the name of Gotham City Research LLC. retractionwatch.com/2026/08/27/j...

retractionwatch.com

Japan institute defends Nobel Prize winner amid allegations of image duplication

Shinya Yamanaka The Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University in Japan is defending Nobel Prize winner Shinya Yamanaka against claims of image manipulation in mu…

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Whole World Hates Trump

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It will always be Lake Ontario just like it will always be the Gulf of Mexico.

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Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There is no limit to this man's stupidity. What I find unbelievable is that some Americans still think he is great.

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A wake-up call to users of industrial controllers. www.linkedin.com/pulse/us-age...

US Agencies Warn of Active AI-Assisted Campaign Targeting Siemens S7 Industrial Controllers

US cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have issued an urgent warning about an active threat campaign targeting Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers used in manufacturing plants, energy facili...

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Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

‘Pryce’s Buoy’: Alan Turing’s autofictional short story. academic.oup.com/res/advance-...

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Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

USA is an odd place. It is the only place I know of where they willingly elect a lunatic to be president.

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

In the Trump world, is US intelligence now a rotten apple? steadystate1.substack.com/p/how-the-se...

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How the Secretary of State Degraded his Own Intelligence Agency

One year after the State Department’s purge, a former INR analyst explains why he resigned and how the loss of expertise is making America less prepared for the crises ahead.

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

When David Kahn was investigated by the FBI. reason.com/2026/07/10/b...

Before the NSA honored historian David Kahn, the FBI investigated him

Newly declassified files reveal that J. Edgar Hoover wanted to prosecute the NSA’s future scholar in residence for collecting cryptography manuals.

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A glimpse of the past, memories of the past ... www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/u...

John Stockwell, Who Wrote a Tell-All Book About the C.I.A., Dies at 88

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

www.nationalacademies.org/projects/CAS...

nationalacademies.org

Implications of AI for Cybersecurity: A Rapid Expert Consultation

Artificial intelligence is reshaping cybersecurity at a pace that outstrips the mechanisms society has historically relied on to secure digital systems. Recent advances in generative AI and agentic sy...

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Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

If you are a writer, be aware of the charming and supportive communications you might receive. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

Bots pose as top authors to target aspiring writers

Fraudsters are using AI in increasingly sophisticated scams that prey on artists desperate for recognition and success

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

CERN is releasing its complete KiCad component library under an open source licence. gitlab.com/ohwr/cern-ki...

Open Hardware Repository / CERN KiCad Libraries · GitLab

Component libraries used at CERN for electronics design using KiCad.

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Security on the edge. www.linkedin.com/pulse/reveal...

REVEALED: Microsoft Edge Stores Passwords In Memory As Plaintext

An attacker who has administrative privileges can access Microsoft Edge user passwords—even when they aren’t actively being used—because the browser keeps them in cleartext within process memory as pa...

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The Taliban in the White House. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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Trump’s border wall expansion just bulldozed an ancient tribal site

Construction in the Arizona desert damaged an enormous Indigenous ground etching resembling a fish that is thought to be at least 1,000 years old.

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Alert! Wounded Duck! www.linkedin.com/pulse/warnin...

WARNING: New Linux Vulnerability Enables Root Access Across Every Major Linux Distribution

A newly disclosed security flaw in the Linux kernel is raising serious concerns across the cybersecurity community, after researchers revealed that it can grant full root access on a wide range of sys...

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Fast16, Stuxnet's elder sibling? www.wired.com/story/fast16...

Newly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Program—and Predates Stuxnet

Researchers have finally cracked Fast16, mysterious code capable of silently tampering with calculation and simulation software. It was created in 2005—and likely deployed by the US or an ally.

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I wish it was true. We need to sink some of these old Russian vessels, preferably when they are in their own harbors.

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Don't think you can hide with your old noisy subs.

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Listen To This Mystery Radio Signal From Day One Of US-Iran War | RFE/RL Exclusive www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlcI...

Listen To This Mystery Radio Signal From Day One Of US-Iran War | RFE/RL Exclusive

YouTube video by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The Iranian war brings back the Cold War mystery: The Number Station www.rferl.org/a/mystery-nu...

A Mysterious Signal Transfixes Radio Sleuths -- And Intelligence Experts

The mysterious Persian-language transmission began about 12 hours after the start of the US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. It was jammed five days later. Is it a coded message for US agents in...

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Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Coruna, an iOS attack cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

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Coruna: The Mysterious Journey of a Powerful iOS Exploit Kit | Google Cloud Blog

Coruna is a powerful iOS exploit kit leveraging 23 vulnerabilities across multiple threat actors and global campaigns.

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Join the warrior historians in their guerrilla war against the evil Trump administration. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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A professor challenged the Smithsonian. Security shut the gallery.

As President Donald Trump seeks to reshape museums and other cultural institutions, historian James Millward has been “guerrilla teaching” visitors about changes that have been made.

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

When Oxygen is not what you want. maligninfluenceoperations.substack.com/p/ice-is-usi...

maligninfluenceoperations.substack.com

ICE Is Using Phone Extraction Software Linked to Russia’s FSB-Connected Network

Over the past decade, federal agencies have dramatically expanded their use of digital surveillance and extraction tools, embedding mobile forensics software into immigration enforcement, criminal inv...

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

For the Norwegian readers — The Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Norway, 1952-1967. svengholtsmark.substack.com/p/sovjetunio...

svengholtsmark.substack.com

SOVJETUNIONENS KOMMUNISTISKE PARTI OG NORGE, 1952-1967

EN DOKUMENTASJON

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

When madmen read history, hell breaks loose. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Russia dirty tricks ‘pave the way for attack on Baltics’

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya claims Russia and Belarus are promoting a fringe historical theory as a pretext for a possible invasion

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/02/2026

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Mystery surrounding microwave beam weapons. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Researcher skeptical of ‘Havana syndrome’ tested secret weapon on himself

The CIA investigated a Norwegian government experiment with a pulsed-energy machine in which a researcher built and tested a “Havana syndrome” device on himself.

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Russia's use of Starlink on strike drones. maligninfluenceoperations.substack.com/p/informnapa...

maligninfluenceoperations.substack.com

InformNapalm: How Russia Is Scaling the Use of Starlink on Strike Drones and Circumventing Sanctions

Satellite terminals empower Russian drones to bypass Ukrainian electronic warfare and expand long-range strikes, revealing new sanction evasion schemes.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

So basically Albert Speer’s defense at Nuremberg.

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

"Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the Führer", said the SS-guards executing the concentration camp prisoners.

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This is not surprising. It is just as expected. Without adequate protection, the measles virus is free to roam. Of course, this simple fact is too much for Robert F. Kennedy to understand

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

And we have people going down all over. We’re doing well.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Suspected Pakistan-linked cyber operator targeting Indian government via spearphish PDFs to geo-fenced ISO delivery (servers hosting the payload only respond to IP addresses in India, with a Windows platform User-Agent). www.zscaler.com/blogs/securi...

Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Suella Braverman is a ticking time bomb that hopefully will blow up in Nigel Farage's face. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Suella Braverman defects to Reform UK

I feel like I’ve come home, says the former Tory home secretary as she joins Nigel Farage’s party

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Tacit acknowledgement they've lost control of the narrative plus saving face via lawfare

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 26/01/2026

Statement by President Clinton

MY STATEMENT ON THE HORRIBLE SCENES
PLAYING OUT IN MINNEAPOLIS
AND ACROSS AMERICA
JANUARY 25, 2026
In recent weeks, we've watched horrible scenes play out in Minneapolis and other communities that I never thought would take place in America. People, including children, have been seized from their homes, workplaces, and the street by masked federal agents. Peaceful protesters and citizens exercising their constitutional right to observe and document law enforcement have been arrested, beaten, teargassed, and most searingly, in the cases of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, shot and killed.
All of this is unacceptable and should have been avoided. To make matters even worse, at every turn, the people in charge have lied to us, told us not to believe what we've seen with our own eyes, and pushed increasingly aggressive and antagonistic tactics, including impeding investigations by local authorities.
Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come. This is one of them. If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back.
It is up to all of us who believe in the promise of American democracy to stand up, speak out, and show that our nation still belongs to We the People.