Practice Your Security Prompting Skills
July 20 2023Gandalf is an interactive LLM game where the goal is to get the chatbot to reveal its password. There are eight levels of difficulty, as the chatbot gets increasingly...
Read moreDisabling Self-Driving Cars with a Traffic Cone
July 18 2023You can disable a self-driving car by putting a traffic cone on its hood:
The group got the idea for the conings by chance. The person claims a few...
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Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records
July 17 2023Interesting forensics in connection with a serial killer arrest:
Investigators went through phone records collected from both midtown Manhattan and the Massapequa Park area of Long Island—two areas connected...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Balloon Squid
July 15 2023Masayoshi Matsumoto is a “master balloon artist,” and he made a squid (and other animals). As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
Read moreBuying Campaign Contributions as a Hack
July 14 2023The first Republican primary debate has a popularity threshold to determine who gets to appear: 40,000 individual contributors. Now there are a lot of conventional ways a candidate can...
Read moreThe French police are getting new surveillance powers:
French police should be able to spy on suspects by remotely activating the camera, microphone and GPS of their phones and...
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Google Is Using Its Vast Data Stores to Train AI
July 12 2023No surprise, but Google just changed its privacy policy to reflect broader uses of all the surveillance data it has captured over the years:
Research and development: Google uses...
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Privacy of Printing Services
July 11 2023The Washington Post has an article about popular printing services, and whether or not they read your documents and mine the data when you use them for printing:
Ideally,...
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Wisconsin Governor Hacks the Veto Process
July 10 2023In my latest book, A Hacker’s Mind, I wrote about hacks as loophole exploiting. This is a great example: The Wisconsin governor used his line-item veto powers—supposedly...
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