Stories by sysoleg

PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618) Exploit

Major ICQ security hole (1998)

Not Everyone Can Code

Don't Trust the Super-App: A Case Study of Russia's Max

Putting models to the secure coding test: Plan vs. default mode

After the AI Crash

Real Money, Fake Models: Deceptive Model Claims in Shadow APIs

Telegram's MTProto: Assessing Deanonymization Potential for a Network Attacker [pdf]

Less Is More: Interface Agents as Digital Butlers (1994)

AI-Declaration.md

Can your AI rewrite your code in assembly?

Stop Calling Them VPNs (2024)

How to Do AI-Assisted Engineering

The Mythical Agent-Month

When your Vibe Coded app goes viral – and then goes down

I replaced a $120/year micro-SaaS in 20 minutes with LLM-generated code

Pretty much 100% of our code is written by Claude Code and Opus 4.5

Best Internet Communications, Inc. Historical Tour

Finger microsoft.com output from ~1996 (Russian quick start for Unix `talk`)

A Deep Dive into the Morris Worm (2019)

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