Friday Squid Blogging: Light-Emitting Squid
June 10 2023It’s a Taningia danae:
Their arms are lined with two rows of sharp retractable hooks. And, like most deep-sea squid, they are adorned with light organs called photophores. They...
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Paragon Solutions Spyware: Graphite
June 8 2023Paragon Solutions is yet another Israeli spyware company. Their product is called “Graphite,” and is a lot like NSO Group’s Pegasus. And Paragon is working with what seems...
Read moreNew paper: “Lessons Lost: Incident Response in the Age of Cyber Insurance and Breach Attorneys“:
Abstract: Incident Response (IR) allows victim firms to detect, contain, and recover from security...
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Snowden Ten Years Later
June 6 2023In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. But I had a more personal involvement as...
Read moreThe Software-Defined Car
June 5 2023Developers are starting to talk about the software-defined car.
For decades, features have accumulated like cruft in new vehicles: a box here to control the antilock brakes, a module...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Chromolithographs
June 3 2023Beautiful illustrations. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. EDITED TO...
Read moreOpen-Source LLMs
June 2 2023In February, Meta released its large language model: LLaMA. Unlike OpenAI and its ChatGPT, Meta didn’t just give the world a chat window to play with. Instead, it released...
Read moreOn the Catastrophic Risk of AI
June 1 2023Earlier this week, I signed on to a short group statement, coordinated by the Center for AI Safety:
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global...
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