NSA

Mullvad lays out the scoreboard: Britain's Tempora processed 600 million telephone events a day across 200 fiber cables; China holds half the world's surveillance cameras; the US runs PRISM, XKeyscore and Section 702. The twist is the framing: democracies just do it quietly while authoritarians do it openly.

The sharpest pushback came from the thread, not the article. A VPN essay warning about surveillance is itself a sales pitch, several noted, and one engineer with 21k karma argued the real lie is calling ad-tech tracking merely 'commercial.'

Mythos is described as a tool that broke into almost all of the NSA's classified systems in hours, not weeks. A classified Anthropic-NSA contract to use it for vulnerability detection was never finalized.

Then a single government letter pulled the plug for everyone. The thread's read: not a power grab but a self-inflicted lockout, with the real lever sitting in plain sight.

Engineers also push back on the panic, arguing Mythos's edge is the harness and toolset, not the weights, and that chaining small bugs is what actually breaks systems.

The dramatic claim has three sets of hands on it before it reaches the reader. A general told a senator, the senator said it aloud on June 11th, and The Economist printed it. Two of the three relays are a politician and a flag officer.

The briefing's actual headline is about something else entirely: whether blocking Anthropic was arbitrary. The hacking line is the evidence, not the thesis.

And if one model can do it in hours, commenters note, the framing collapses the moment you ask which model couldn't.