The sensational headlines surrounding Anthropic’s AI work on HAWK reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of how global cybersecurity actually operates: cryptanalysis is not a panic event; it is the continuous quality-control engine of the digital world. The framing that "AI broke post-quantum security and everything is collapsing" is pure noise. Here is the reality. 1. This Is an Ongoing Discipline Run by Dedicated Teams Cryptanalysis isn't something that happens once in a blu

Without sounding narcissistic, we’re often told we’re opinionated. Everyone is 100 percent correct. We are, and we will remain so. Not for ego. For rigour. If a proposition is weak, confused or stretching novelty beyond necessity, it should be challenged. Governance is a mature discipline. Reinventing it with diagrams and slogans helps nobody. Yesterday was a good example. A post appeared describing AI governance as a neat four layer staircase. I challenged it: "This is a per