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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Friday Squid Blogging: Sqids
They’re short unique strings: Sqids (pronounced “squids”) is an open-source library that lets you generate YouTube-looking IDs from numbers. These IDs are short...
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AI and Lossy Bottlenecks
Artificial intelligence is poised to upend much of society, removing human limitations inherent in many systems. One such limitation is information and logistical...
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New iPhone Security Features to Protect Stolen Devices
Apple is rolling out a new “Stolen Device Protection” feature that seems well thought out: When Stolen Device Protection is turned on, Face ID or Touch ID authentication...
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Google Stops Collecting Location Data from Maps
Google Maps now stores location data locally on your device, meaning that Google no longer has that data to turn over to the police.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Parts into Fertilizer
It’s squid parts from college dissections, so it’s not a volume operation. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in thehere...
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Data Exfiltration Using Indirect Prompt Injection
Interesting attack on a LLM: In Writer, users can enter a ChatGPT-like session to edit or create their documents. In this chat session, the LLM can retrieve information...
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OpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today
There’s a rumor flying around the Internet that OpenAI is training foundation models on your Dropbox documents. Here’s CNBC. Here’s Boing Boing. Some articles are...
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Police Get Medical Records without a Warrant
More unconstrained surveillance: Lawmakers noted the pharmacies’ policies for releasing medical records in a letter dated Tuesday to the Department of Health and...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Underwater Sculptures Use Squid Ink for Coloring
The Molinière Underwater Sculpture Park has pieces that are colored in part with squid ink. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
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A Robot the Size of the World
In 2016, I wrote about an Internet that affected the world in a direct, physical manner. It was connected to your smartphone. It had sensors like cameras and thermostats...
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Surveillance Cameras Disguised as Clothes Hooks
This seems like a bad idea. And there are ongoing lawsuits against Amazon for selling them.
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Surveillance by the US Postal Service
This is not about mass surveillance of mail, this is about sorts of targeted surveillance the US Postal Inspection Service uses to catch mail thieves: To track...
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New Windows/Linux Firmware Attack
Interesting attack based on malicious pre-OS logo images: LogoFAIL is a constellation of two dozen newly discovered vulnerabilities that have lurked for years,...
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Facebook Enables Messenger End-to-End Encryption by Default
It’s happened. Details here, and tech details here (for messages in transit) and here (for messages in storage) Rollout to everyone will take months, but it’s a...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Influencer Accidentally Posts Restaurant Table QR Ordering Code
Another rare security + squid story: The woman—who has only been identified by her surname, Wang—was having a meal with friends at a hotpot restaurant in Kunming...
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New Bluetooth Attack
New attack breaks forward secrecy in Bluetooth. Three. news articles. The vulnerability has been around for at least a decade.
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Spying through Push Notifications
When you get a push notification on your Apple or Google phone, those notifications go through Apple and Google servers. Which means that those companies can spy...
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Security Analysis of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Election Protocol
Interesting analysis: This paper discusses the protocol used for electing the Doge of Venice between 1268 and the end of the Republic in 1797. We will show that...
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