Unleashed Kimi K3.1 Pro (via Tinfoil TEE) today to do a security audit on my web/iPhone/android member app. It discovered 5 severe vulnerabilities and 10 other medium to low ones. Astra, Fable, Opus and Deepseek 4.1 had all assured me everything was ok.

The one shot audit cost me $40 in tokens. Totally worth it for me.

But the compute is expensive and you can see why these daily hacks continue when attackers are more likely to speculate to accumulate, rather than developers spending on maintenance - especially if they convince themselves their app is all good.

If Anthropic and OpenAi continue to lock us down with these guardrails, all it's gonna do is accelerate the move/spend to open-weights. As soon as I passed the audit to Astra, it knew exactly how to fix it all.

Get ahead of these attackers and secure yourself and your customers. The tools are there.

A little story for nostr - of debanking, money, and incompetent government institutions.

Two weeks ago I headed to the shop during my lunch break, went to pay for the items, and realised my business bank account was no longer usable with Apple Pay. Whilst walking home I logged onto the banking app to discover my account was blocked.

The account holds 2-3 months worth of operating costs - money I was now completely unable to access. Likewise I can not receive any new revenue or pay my bills.

Once I got back to the office I phoned the bank, who informed me they have blocked the account because Companies House - the government department that UK businesses have to register with - had begun a procedure to dissolve my business. Companies House had not informed me, or my accountant this would be happening, and it came about because of a filing admin error. The error was partly of my own making because I had delayed, and then failed to properly navigate the complex, multi stage process of KYCing myself as a Director to Companies House. New rules that were brought in recently, that achieve nothing but making life harder for small businesses like mine.

Obviously the bank, nor Companies House were able to help me expedite the fix, so I have now essentially been debanked for over a week. That's a long time in business.

Whilst I am confident this will be sorted out by some stage next week. The experience has reminded me, or taught me, several important lessons.

1. The money in your bank account is not really yours.
2. No one is coming to help you when things go wrong. It's all on you.
3. (UK) Government institutions are failing and incompetent across the board. And we are the ones who will suffer for it.
4. The UK government actions suggest they HATE small businesses. It's getting harder and harder.
5. Banks are dickheads

And finally, pushing me closer to taking the black pill, bitcoin has not fixed this or helped me ride this out in any way.

Until the security panic the other day, I have offered my products and services via BTCPay for over three years now. Do you want to know how many bitcoin sales I have made in that time? ONE.

My customers and 99% of my vendors have no interest whatsoever. In my time here, I have observed bitcoin move further and further away from being a MoE, across bull and bear markets. I was here for the freedom money. That dream often now feels naive.

Anyway, forever onwards.

The full video is out now on YouTube, the website or the First Man App.

I am also starting to post long form videos straight to nostr too.

My dad died in July. Today would have been his birthday. I’m marking the occasion by drinking the last bottle of his home brew. Cheers.

Absolutely gutted to hear about the passing of Sir Patrick Stewart.

He was an inspiration for so many years.

“The line must be drawn here! This far, no further”.