{"id":10581,"date":"2026-02-12T02:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/smashing-security-podcast-454-ai-was-not-plotting-humanitys-demise-humans-were\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T02:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:04:39","slug":"smashing-security-podcast-454-ai-was-not-plotting-humanitys-demise-humans-were","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/smashing-security-podcast-454-ai-was-not-plotting-humanitys-demise-humans-were\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Security podcast #454: AI was not plotting humanity\u2019s demise. Humans were"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Smashing Security podcast #454: AI was not plotting humanity\u2019s demise. Humans were<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>AI bots are having existential crises, inventing religions, and allegedly plotting against humanity&#8230; or so the internet would have you believe.<\/p>\n<p>We dig into Moltbook, the \u201cAI-only\u201d social network that sent Twitter into a meltdown, attracted breathless talk of the singularity, and turned out to be far less Terminator and far more humans role-playing as bots.<\/p>\n<p>Plus we discuss why &#8220;vibe coding&#8221; your app might be a catastrophically bad idea, when security researchers can easily peek inside rifle through your private messages, API keys, and databases.<\/p>\n<p>Also this week we learn that pro-Russian hackers are circling the Winter Olympics &#8211; or is it the Jamaican Bobsleigh team?<\/p>\n<p>All this and more is discussed in episode 454 of the &#8220;Smashing Security&#8221; podcast with cybersecurity veteran Graham Cluley, and special guest Iain Thomson.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/grahamcluley.com\/smashing-security-podcast-454\/\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smashing Security podcast #454: AI was not plotting humanity\u2019s demise. Humans were AI bots are having existential crises, inventing religions, and allegedly plotting against humanity&#8230; or so the internet would have you believe. We dig into Moltbook, the \u201cAI-only\u201d social network that sent Twitter into a meltdown, attracted breathless talk of the singularity, and turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,266,171,54,612,164,2295,166,317,486,175,2296],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-10581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-artificial-intelligence","category-denial-of-service","category-grahamcluley","category-italy","category-law-order","category-moltbook","category-podcast","category-russia","category-security-threats","category-smashing-security","category-winter-olympics","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}