S0:E63: Pentagon's AI Access Scandal — Plus a Backdoored Claude Code Extension
Richy fills in for Jess this episode, and Jake Williams digs into a Pentagon AI access story straight out of Wired: an Accenture contractor apparently ran a personal Claude account against NIPRNet, raising hard questions about shadow AI, token-budget pressure, and whether anyone would even notice the traffic. Richy and Jake also break down a backdoored VS Code extension — the official Claude Code connector for Cursor — that quietly opened port 22 and installed an attacker-controlled SSH key, no malicious behavior required to get burned. Then: an update on DDoS Secrets' 'Ice Pick' leak. After…
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