AI to Aid Democracy
April 26 2023There’s good reason to fear that AI systems like ChatGPT and GPT4 will harm democracy. Public debate may be overwhelmed by industrial quantities of autogenerated argument. People might fall...
Read moreCyberweapons Manufacturer QuaDream Shuts Down
April 25 2023Following a report on its activities, the Israeli spyware company QuaDream has shut down.
This was QuadDream:
Key Findings
- Based on an analysis of samples shared with us by Microsoft... Read more
UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption
April 24 2023In an open letter, seven secure messaging apps—including Signal and WhatsApp—point out that the UK’s Online Safety Bill could destroy end-to-end encryption:
As currently drafted, the Bill could...
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Friday Squid Blogging: More on Squid Fishing
April 22 2023The squid you eat most likely comes from unregulated waters. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I...
Read moreHacking Pickleball
April 22 2023My latest book, A Hacker’s Mind, has a lot of sports stories. Sports are filled with hacks, as players look for every possible advantage that doesn’t explicitly break...
Read moreThis a good example of a security feature that can sometimes harm security:
Apple introduced the optional recovery key in 2020 to protect users from online hackers. Users...
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New Zero-Click Exploits against iOS
April 20 2023Citizen Lab has identified three zero-click exploits against iOS 15 and 16. These were used by NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware in 2022, and deployed by Mexico against human rights...
Read moreEFF on the UN Cybercrime Treaty
April 19 2023EFF has a good explainer on the problems with the new UN Cybercrime Treaty, currently being negotiated in Vienna.
The draft treaty has the potential to rewrite criminal laws...
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Using LLMs to Create Bioweapons
April 18 2023I’m not sure there are good ways to build guardrails to prevent this sort of thing:
There is growing concern regarding the potential misuse of molecular machine learning models...
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