Internet Voting is Too Insecure for Use in Elections
January 21 2026No matter how many times we say it, the idea comes back again and again. Hopefully, this letter will hold back the tide for at least a while...
Read moreCould ChatGPT Convince You to Buy Something?
January 20 2026Eighteen months ago, it was plausible that artificial intelligence might take a different path than social media. Back then, AI’s development hadn’t consolidated under a small number of...
Read moreAI-Powered Surveillance in Schools
January 19 2026It all sounds pretty dystopian:
Inside a white stucco building in Southern California, video cameras compare faces of passersby against a facial recognition database. Behavioral analysis AI reviews the...
Read more
AI and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge
January 16 2026More than a decade after Aaron Swartz’s death, the United States is still living inside the contradiction that destroyed him.
Swartz believed that knowledge, especially publicly funded knowledge, should...
Read moreNew Vulnerability in n8n
January 15 2026This isn’t good: We discovered a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-21858, CVSS 10.0) in n8n that enables attackers to take over locally deployed instances, impacting an estimated 100,000 servers globally. No official...
Read moreHacking Wheelchairs over Bluetooth
January 15 2026Researchers have demonstrated remotely controlling a wheelchair over Bluetooth. CISA has issued an advisory. CISA said the WHILL wheelchairs did not enforce authentication for Bluetooth connections, allowing an attacker who...
Read moreUpcoming Speaking Engagements
January 15 2026This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
- I’m speaking at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada,... Read more
1980s Hacker Manifesto
January 13 2026Forty years ago, The Mentor—Loyd Blankenship—published “The Conscience of a Hacker” in Phrack.
You bet your ass we’re all alike… we’ve been spoon-fed baby food at school when...
Read more
Corrupting LLMs Through Weird Generalizations
January 12 2026Fascinating research:
Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs.
Abstract LLMs are useful because they generalize so well. But can you have too much of a good...
Read more
The latest article on this topic. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.
Read more
Recent Comments