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Martin Wendiggensen

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PhD candidate @ JHU Alperovitch Institute ; AI Research Scientist @ Dreadnode

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cje @cje.io · 15/04/2026
👀 Mine the Gap: Open-Source Tools for Measuring the AI Offense-Defense Gap | Dreadnode m.cje.io/4mxNV3P
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Mine the Gap: Open-Source Tools for Measuring the AI Offense-Defense Gap | Dreadnode
Dreadnode ran red team and blue team agents in the same Active Directory environment creating a realistic, closed-loop evaluation. Run your own evals with DreadGOAD and Ares.
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 13/04/2026
Me, when the teacher kicks out my bff and gives the seat next to me to the smart kid
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 01/04/2026
Very excited for this book! Just preordered
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 01/04/2026
Not to mention that they called in Soviet tanks to literally crush labor protests and strikes! They mismanaged the economy and then increased working hours by 10% at same pay. The Soviet troops and GDR police murdered more than 50 people and jailed thousands, in order to force factory work to resume
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 29/03/2026
Mistake is to think of states as independent entities. If America were to default on its debt the consequence would be eliminating the retirement portfolios of a very large number of its citizens. So they will stop it. In the democratic world the citizens are the holders of sovdebt and the sovereign
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 25/03/2026
Want to have some fun building agents? Go to dreadnode.io
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Dreadnode — AI Infrastructure for Security Agents
Dreadnode provides the infrastructure for building, evaluating, and deploying security agents.
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Genevieve @femmeshoto.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Final chemotherapy infusion is done! I'll still be recovering for a while, but I'm so excited to be wrapping up this phase of my treatment plan! Two weeks off, then I start radiation therapy!
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Philip ❤
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 02/03/2026
"You used to beep me on my pager. Late nights when you want to detonate. I know when that hotline bling, that can only mean one thing (my thumbs detaching)"
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Active Measures, LLC @activemeasures.bsky.social · 13/08/2023
*Spinning a chair around backwards, sitting down with a group of first year Master's students at the pizza social* "You know, real cyberwar has never been tried."
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 28/02/2026
When Viennese intellectuals were disenfranchised by an autocratic system in the 19th century they would gather in coffee houses and play the "Archduke game". One would play an idiotic royal and the other his tutor. Every deliberately dumb answer had to be explained as a stroke of genuis
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 25/02/2026
Turns out AI is a strategic studies major at Johns Hopkins SAIS
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 13/02/2026
Want to build an AI agents that hacks stuff? Don‘t have training data? No problem! Find out how: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C7p...
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From 0 to DA: Inside Worlds, a Simulation Engine for Agentic Pentesting
YouTube video by dreadnode
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Dreadnode @dreadnode.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We fine-tuned an 8B model to pop a GOAD domain…using only synthetic training data. No real networks. No frontier model distillation. Just a world model that simulates AD environments and generates realistic pentesting trajectories. See how we did it: dreadnode.io/blog/worlds-...
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Worlds: A Simulation Engine for Agentic Pentesting
An 8B model went from blindly loading Metasploit modules to achieving Domain Admin on GOAD, trained entirely on synthetic data from our world model system.
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 10/02/2026
Seems plausible but I‘d like to see a Granger test…
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Gabriel @morecoffeeplz.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We about to have some Llama Drama :)
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 19/01/2026
The @districtcon.bsky.social gods ask for their due. The conference may proceed but one natural crisis will occur
Screenshot of Snowstorm hitting east coast
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 11/12/2025
Me, finding Great Wall Cigarillos in the pocket of an old coat I got tailormade in Beijing
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 10/12/2025
You smoke too tough Your swag too different Your bitch too bad They‘ll never elect you To be serious, we‘ll probably get a milquetoast like Nagel. But enjoying the posturing and also cannot wait to be rid of Lagarde #Weidmanngang
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ECB’s Schnabel Says She’d Be ‘Ready’ to Succeed Lagarde If Asked
European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said she’d be willing to take over as president when Christine Lagarde’s term ends in less than two years.
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 10/12/2025
It‘s wild to me that UK citizens are still widely under the illusion that the EU would want the UK back… In between leaving and now the UK has lost a lot of value as an economic, political, scientific, industrial, energy, intelligence, and financial partner. What would you have to offer?
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Great Bradsher piece on how the renminbis dramatic undervaluation is supercharging China‘s export explosion. Germanys trade deficit with China has surged more than 120% this year. But cutting red tape will surely restore Europes competitiveness! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/b...
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China’s Weak Currency Is Powering Its Exports and Drawing Criticism
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I hope the German Chancellor catches up - a 1990s deregulation agenda isn’t going to cut it against a wildly undervalued Chinese exchange rate. I think Europe should consider broader China tariffs - either to slow down the shock directly or as a tool to pressure China to revalue. 1/
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 08/12/2025
Will noone think of the GPU mules?
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 05/12/2025
The German embassy in Washington has a Swedish chef… And the food there is terrible and also just…not German. It’s Swedish. And it just illustrates so much about why the the German foreign office is so bad. That food is a crime for which French, Italian, and Japanese ambassadors would be executed…
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 04/12/2025
I don’t know about you, but I always do what my JAGS (@jags.bsky.social ) tells me to do
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a man in a navy uniform is standing in a courtroom with his fist in the air
Alt: a man in a navy uniform is standing in a courtroom with his fist in the air
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 30/11/2025
This is such pretentious bs. The poetry is probably: "Roses are red Violets are blue Build an atomic bomb or we‘re through" Because prompt screening or RL for safety is a charade that really only narrows pathways but doesn’t close them. And the atom bomb scenario is idiotic in and of itself
Screenshot from wired reading "The study did not include any examples of the jailbreaking poetry, and the researchers tell WIRED that the verse is too dangerous to share with the public."
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 30/11/2025
This is such pretentious bs. The poetry is probably: "Roses are red Violets are blue Build an atomic bomb or we‘re through" Because prompt screening or RL for safety is a charade that really only narrows pathways but doesn’t close them. And the atom bomb scenario is idiotic in and of itself
Screenshot from wired reading "The study did not include any examples of the jailbreaking poetry, and the researchers tell WIRED that the verse is too dangerous to share with the public."
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Nils Fleischhacker @cryptomaeher.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Privacy is easy if functionality is not required.
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 11/11/2025
One fun thing the @dreadnode.bsky.social CTI agent is unearthing from the Great Firewall leaks is how many of the employees of this Chinese deep-packet inspection/malware intro/censorship company are also part-time (PhD) students If it can work for them, it can work for me! .
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 11/11/2025
One fun thing the @dreadnode.bsky.social CTI agent is unearthing from the Great Firewall leaks is how many of the employees of this Chinese deep-packet inspection/malware intro/censorship company are also part-time (PhD) students If it can work for them, it can work for me! .
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 10/11/2025
Andor is for children too
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 10/11/2025
So THAT is what happened to the mosquito-zapping laser I watched the product talk for and that then never came onto the market… the company is doing drone defense now… on.ft.com/4hUYGLl How an idea to zap mosquitoes led to Australia’s most valuable defence stock
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How an idea to zap mosquitoes led to Australia’s most valuable defence stock
DroneShield’s shares have surged more than fourfold this year as war in Ukraine and Red Sea attacks drive demand
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
HYPOTHESIS: repeat exposure to the LessWrong discussion boards is functionally indistinguishable from mercury poisoning.
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 27/10/2025
Come see ya boy
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DistrictCon @districtcon.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
We're officially announcing our speakers DistrictCon Year 1! Check out our incredible lineup: www.districtcon.org/speakers This also includes our Day 1 & Day 2 Keynotes from Ian Levy and Dan Ridge. And don't forget, GA tickets go on sale November 16! See you in January! 🪩
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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 24/10/2025
It did not. The reporter took the date on my original email about the planned malware release and assumed that the graphic was begun at the same time. I sketched out a rough version of that with the PAO in like 15 minutes of brainstorming on a whiteboard. She then sent it to the graphic contractor.
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 25/10/2025
In early 2019 while at the German Parliament‘s Foreign Affairs Committee, I imagined this exact scenario: China using the rare earth supply chain to get fully visibility and self-reinforcing leverage. When urged to develop other sources, such as Malaysia (where I even went), Merkel gov did nothing.
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German Firms Hand Over Secrets That China Could Use for Leverage
As German firms wrestle with new Chinese controls on rare earths, they are handing Beijing sensitive supply chain information it could potentially use to squeeze manufacturers or shut down production ...
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 20/10/2025
Okay, *maybe* the new leader is fine (don’t know him) but there is soooo much structurally wrong with the BND. Starting with the fact that there is no career track for analysts to become leaders. Leadership is always hired seperately, they’re all lawyers, basically no foreign or language experience
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 20/10/2025
Washington is rethinking the relationship between government agencies and the private sector in offensive cyber, considering giving the private sector a more active role. Perfect timing for @winnona.bsky.social & Sergey Bratus to put out this well-reasoned and legally grounded perspective:
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 20/10/2025
I don’t claim to have the solution how to make conscription work (or ideally: to not to need conscription in the first place). But I am not a politician. Just saying “not like this” is not a strategy. (Video with LINKE MP who doesn’t know more than what she/they *don’t* want.)
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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 17/10/2025
You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on. Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 17/10/2025
My "This is not a coup d‘etat"-statement has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my statement.
Picture of military personnel of Madagascar under the Bloomberg headline "Madagascar‘s military leader is sworn in as president after a takeover, and says 'This is not a coup d'etat'"
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 16/10/2025
If lethality is the goal, one should look at the US army that beat the Nazis. That army‘s leader championed the release of a movie that junior officers had wanted quashed. It showed a loss-heavy, poorly planned assault on San Pietro (IT) followed by its razing. But democracies are honest about war.
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The Film and Battle of San Pietro
Director John Huston crafted a controversial documentary film that was made during the Battle of San Pietro.
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 12/10/2025
Whenever the headline says a "Nobel-Prize winning economist" is weighing in on a topic that you don’t remember any economist winning the Nobel Prize for or really any economist who has won one ever doing serious research on that topic at all it’s always *always* Daron Acemoglu
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 24/09/2025
The quality of propaganda pics made by German DoD has improved remarkably with the recent leadership changes. More weapons systems, more elaborate staging, cooler poses… Also, finally a German general who seems to still hit the gym and doesn’t look like he smells of day-old beef stew and accounting
Head of the German airforce shaking the hand of his Japanese counterpart on the open ramp of a military transport plane that is mid-flight with German and Japanese jets flying behind the open ramp
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Dreadnode @dreadnode.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Dreadnode is a proud sponsor of @sentinelone.com's #labscon25! Heading to Scottsdale this week? Catch @machinavelli.com and Brad Palm's talk, Auto-Poking the Bear—Analytical Tradecraft in the AI Age, on Thursday at 2pm MT. Or, shoot us a DM to find time to meet up onsite!
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SentinelOne @sentinelone.com · 16/09/2025
🧠 @machinavelli.com and Brad Palm (@dreadnode.bsky.social) ask: can we trust AI-assisted CTI? 🔗 labscon.io/speakers/martin-wendiggensen 🔗 www.labscon.io/speakers/bra...
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 11/09/2025
Still the best show that has ever aired!
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 10/09/2025
As per my last meme:
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