LLM-Assisted Deanonymization
March 2 2026Turns out that LLMs are good at de-anonymization:
We show that LLM agents can figure out who you are from your anonymous online posts. Across Hacker News, Reddit, LinkedIn,...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in Peru
February 28 2026Peru has increased its squid catch limit. The article says “giant squid,” but they can’t possibly mean that. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...
Read moreWhy Tehran’s Two-Tiered Internet Is So Dangerous
February 27 2026Iran is slowly emerging from the most severe communications blackout in its history and one of the longest in the world. Triggered as part of January’s government...
Read morePhishing Attacks Against People Seeking Programming Jobs
February 27 2026This is new. North Korean hackers are posing as company recruiters, enticing job candidates to participate in coding challenges. When they run the code they are supposed to work...
Read moreLLMs Generate Predictable Passwords
February 26 2026LLMs are bad at generating passwords:
There are strong noticeable patterns among these 50 passwords that can be seen easily:
- All of the passwords start with a letter, usually uppercase... Read more
Poisoning AI Training Data
February 25 2026All it takes to poison AI training data is to create a website:
I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled “The best tech...
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Is AI Good for Democracy?
February 24 2026Politicians fixate on the global race for technological supremacy between US and China. They debate geopolitical implications of chip exports, latest model releases from each country, and military applications...
Read moreOn the Security of Password Managers
February 23 2026Good article on password managers that secretly have a backdoor.
New research shows that these claims aren’t true in all cases, particularly when account recovery is in place or...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Cartoon
February 21 2026I like this one. 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 moreRing Cancels Its Partnership with Flock
February 20 2026It’s a demonstration of how toxic the surveillance-tech company Flock has become when Amazon’s Ring cancels the partnership between the two companies. As Hamilton Nolan advises, remove your Ring doorbell.
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