Mailbox Insecurity
December 19 2024It turns out that all cluster mailboxes in the Denver area have the same master key. So if someone robs a postal carrier, they can open any mailbox. I get...
Read moreNew Advances in the Understanding of Prime Numbers
December 19 2024Really interesting research into the structure of prime numbers. Not immediately related to the cryptanalysis of prime-number-based public-key algorithms, but every little bit matters.
Read moreHacking Digital License Plates
December 18 2024Not everything needs to be digital and “smart.” License plates, for example:
Josep Rodriguez, a researcher at security firm IOActive, has revealed a technique to “jailbreak” digital license plates...
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Short-Lived Certificates Coming to Let’s Encrypt
December 16 2024Starting next year:
Our longstanding offering won’t fundamentally change next year, but we are going to introduce a new offering that’s a big shift from anything we’ve done before—short-lived...
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Upcoming Speaking Events
December 15 2024This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at a joint meeting of the Boston Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society and...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Biology and Ecology of the Colossal Squid
December 14 2024Good survey paper. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreUltralytics Supply-Chain Attack
December 14 2024Last week, we saw a supply-chain attack against the Ultralytics AI library on GitHub. A quick summary:
On December 4, a malicious version 8.3.41 of the popular AI library...
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Jailbreaking LLM-Controlled Robots
December 11 2024Surprising no one, it’s easy to trick an LLM-controlled robot into ignoring its safety instructions.
Read moreFull-Face Masks to Frustrate Identification
December 10 2024This is going to be interesting. It’s a video of someone trying on a variety of printed full-face masks. They won’t fool anyone for long, but will survive casual scrutiny....
Read moreTrust Issues in AI
December 9 2024This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders. It originally appeared as a response to Evgeny Morozov in Boston Review‘s forum, “The AI We Deserve.”
For a technology that...
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