Mike Frantzen

August 2026

Keeping my AI from hacking things
From the perspective of a former founder/CEO of an offensive cyber company
 • Mike Frantzen
The FT Mistook an Anthropic Promotion for a Layoff
Falling frontier model share is what actual customer adoption looks like.
 • Mike Frantzen
Performing Incident Response on a Chinese Government Server
My crawler fell into a tarpit that looked a lot like someone had hacked the box
 • Mike Frantzen
Hiding Quarterly Filings from the Bad News Bots
Does embedding bad news in a picture affect stock price or the news tickers?
 • Mike Frantzen
A profile of Chinese spy-catching
What 216 Chinese espionage convictions reveal about their counterintelligence apparatus
 • Mike Frantzen
The Weapons China No Longer Trusts
Three years of purges, projected onto the People's Liberation Army's order of battle
 • Mike Frantzen
The failed Chinese anti-data center influence operation
China influenced far less of America than the operation to influence Congress
 • Mike Frantzen
What If China Is Telling the Truth?
Decades of business decisions and national policy based around the popular acceptance of “China Lies”
 • Mike Frantzen
China’s missing five-million-barrels of oil per day hides in two fat fingers
Conservation of mass, some basic accounting, and two bad numbers that built a mystery
 • Mike Frantzen

July 2026

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