Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Sticker
December 21 2024A sticker for your water bottle. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreMailbox 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....
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