Matt Suiche
Hacker · Founder of OnDB
Hello! My name is Matt Suiche. I am the founder of OnDB Inc., a data infrastructure startup for the agentic economy. I recently discussed cyberwar in the age of AI, Iran’s cyber capabilities, and how AI is reshaping hacking on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots and the National Security Lab podcast.
Previously, I co-founded CloudVolumes (acquired by VMware in 2014) and Comae Technologies (acquired by Magnet Forensics in 2022), where I later served as Head of Detection Engineering. I also founded the cybersecurity community project OPCDE.
My path into technology started in reverse engineering as a teenager, and has since spanned memory forensics, operating systems, virtualization, blockchain, and now AI infrastructure.
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High quality data is expensive to collect, clean, and maintain. Poor security makes all of it free. To someone else.
As software collapses toward zero marginal cost, that sentence stops being a cybersecurity truism and starts being a business model observation. Data is the last asset with durable value in an AI-native stack. The only thing that keeps that value is the discipline most AI-native companies are treating as optional.
This post is a bit of a grab bag — personal notes dumped here so I can pick up the thread later. The main goal: achieving generative EDM/techno music. Everything else — DSP, frequency bands, oscillators, filters — is machinery toward that end.
Especially now with AI/GenAI, this feels achievable: create bangers with a few Python scripts, provide generative sound experiences that are unique each time. Not generating samples from prompts — actually synthesizing sound from first principles.
Cute characters as ideological delivery systems, and how AI accelerated the propaganda playbook.
Kind of crazy that the big propaganda medium to come out of AI wasn't deepfakes but LEGO men and Persian cats https://t.co/PEzEiamwJg
— Tracy Alloway (@tracyalloway) April 9, 2026 Tracy Alloway nailed it: “Kind of crazy that the big propaganda medium to come out of AI wasn’t deepfakes but LEGO men and Persian cats.”
Everyone was bracing for deepfakes. The national security community spent years warning about synthetic video of world leaders saying things they never said, doctored footage designed to deceive at the pixel level. Instead, what showed up was Lego minifigures of Trump and Netanyahu set to AI-generated rap tracks, produced by an Iran-based group calling themselves the “Explosive News Team”. And it wasn’t just Iran. Chinese state media CCTV joined in with its own GenAI animal fable: “The White Eagle and Persian Cat”, a stop-motion style animation where a White Eagle Alliance dominates trade by forcing other animals to use its currency. Not trying to fool anyone into thinking the footage was real. Just trying to be catchy, shareable, and memetically sticky.