Banning VPNs
December 1 2025This is crazy. Lawmakers in several US states are contemplating banning VPNs, because…think of the children!
As of this writing, Wisconsin lawmakers are escalating their war on privacy by...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Flying Neon Squid Found on Israeli Beach
November 29 2025A meter-long flying neon squid (Ommastrephes bartramii) was found dead on an Israeli beach. The species is rare in the Mediterranean. As usual, you can also use this squid post...
Read morePrompt Injection Through Poetry
November 28 2025In a new paper, “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models,” researchers found that turning LLM prompts into poetry resulted in jailbreaking the...
Read moreHuawei and Chinese Surveillance
November 26 2025This quote is from House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company.
“Long before anyone had heard of Ren Zhengfei or Huawei, Wan Runnan had been...
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Four Ways AI Is Being Used to Strengthen Democracies Worldwide
November 25 2025Democracy is colliding with the technologies of artificial intelligence. Judging from the audience reaction at the recent World Forum on Democracy in Strasbourg, the general expectation is that...
Read moreIACR Nullifies Election Because of Lost Decryption Key
November 24 2025The International Association of Cryptologic Research—the academic cryptography association that’s been putting conferences like Crypto (back when “crypto” meant “cryptography”) and Eurocrypt since the 1980s—had to nullify an...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: New “Squid” Sneaker
November 22 2025I did not know Adidas sold a sneaker called “Squid.” As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I...
Read moreMore on Rewiring Democracy
November 22 2025It’s been a month since Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship was published. From what we know, sales are good.
Some of the book’s...
Read moreAI as Cyberattacker
November 21 2025From Anthropic:
In mid-September 2025, we detected suspicious activity that later investigation determined to be a highly sophisticated espionage campaign. The attackers used AI’s “agentic” capabilities to an unprecedented...
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Scam USPS and E-Z Pass Texts and Websites
November 20 2025Google has filed a complaint in court that details the scam:
In a complaint filed Wednesday, the tech giant accused “a cybercriminal group in China” of selling “phishing for...
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