Trusted Execution Environments
February 11 2025Really good—and detailed—survey of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs.)
Read morePairwise Authentication of Humans
February 10 2025Here’s an easy system for two humans to remotely authenticate to each other, so they can be sure that neither are digital impersonations.
To mitigate that risk, I have...
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UK Is Ordering Apple to Break Its Own Encryption
February 8 2025The Washington Post is reporting that the UK government has served Apple with a “technical capability notice” as defined by the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, requiring it to...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: The Colossal Squid
February 8 2025Long article on the colossal squid. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreScreenshot-Reading Malware
February 7 2025Kaspersky is reporting on a new type of smartphone malware. The malware in question uses optical character recognition (OCR) to review a device’s photo library, seeking screenshots of recovery phrases...
Read moreOn Generative AI Security
February 5 2025Microsoft’s AI Red Team just published “Lessons from Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products.” Their blog post lists “three takeaways,” but the eight lessons in the report...
Read moreDeepfakes and the 2024 US Election
February 4 2025Interesting analysis:
We analyzed every instance of AI use in elections collected by the WIRED AI Elections Project (source for our analysis), which tracked known uses of AI...
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This is yet another story of commercial spyware being used against journalists and civil society members.
The journalists and other civil society members were being alerted of a possible...
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Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Brains
February 1 2025Interesting. Blog moderation policy.
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