Google Stops Collecting Location Data from Maps
December 26 2023Google Maps now stores location data locally on your device, meaning that Google no longer has that data to turn over to the police.
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Parts into Fertilizer
December 23 2023It’s squid parts from college dissections, so it’s not a volume operation. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
Read moreBen Rothke’s Review of A Hacker’s Mind
December 23 2023Ben Rothke chose A Hacker’s Mind as “the best information security book of 2023.”
Read moreData Exfiltration Using Indirect Prompt Injection
December 22 2023Interesting attack on a LLM:
In Writer, users can enter a ChatGPT-like session to edit or create their documents. In this chat session, the LLM can retrieve information from...
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Cyberattack on Ukraine’s Kyivstar Seems to Be Russian Hacktivists
December 21 2023The Solntsepek group has taken credit for the attack. They’re linked to the Russian military, so it’s unclear whether the attack was government directed or freelance. This is one of...
Read moreOpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today
December 19 2023There’s a rumor flying around the Internet that OpenAI is training foundation models on your Dropbox documents.
Here’s CNBC. Here’s Boing Boing. Some articles are more nuanced,...
Read morePolice Get Medical Records without a Warrant
December 18 2023More unconstrained surveillance:
Lawmakers noted the pharmacies’ policies for releasing medical records in a letter dated Tuesday to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier...
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The Molinière Underwater Sculpture Park has pieces that are colored in part with squid ink. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
Read moreA Robot the Size of the World
December 15 2023In 2016, I wrote about an Internet that affected the world in a direct, physical manner. It was connected to your smartphone. It had sensors like cameras and thermostats....
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