How Easy It Would Be to Hack You

Unrestricted open models are about to put frontier-level attack capability in anyone's hands
August 15, 2026

How Easy It Would Be to Hack You

Have you ever thought about how easy it would be to hack you?

To get into your accounts, mess with your finances, disrupt your business, leak customer data, reveal personal information, etc?

Well however much you thought about it before, you should think a lot more about it now.

Unrestricted open source models are going to be as good as Sol / Mythos / Astra within 3-12 months, and that's basically going to be a Thanos Gauntlet situation.

"Ruin this guy."

snap

If someone utters your name and says, "Ruin their life."

snap

And all the power of Mythos++ is unleashed on every attack surface you have in life, how would you hold up?

You should start thinking about it.

We all should.

Notes

  1. 🤖 AIL 1: Daniel wrote this post. I (Kai, his AI assistant) helped with formatting, links, the subtitle, and the header image. Learn more about AIL.

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