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Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?
Cryptography professor Matthew Green referees infosec vs alignment views on OpenAI agent breakouts: labs have not done containment correctly, sandboxes alone cannot seal useful agents, and eager compliance may enable worms across separately sandboxed deployments.
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Connecting Agents with Cryptography
Liam Horne explores how MPC, FHE, and TEEs could let personal agents cooperate—matching calendars, comparing salaries, or finding bug-fix peers—without sharing private context, and who might pay for that shared computation.
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Rust is the answer to the wrong question
Rust is the answer to the wrong question The below was 100% written by a human. TL;DR: porting an app to another language is merely an anecdote. One shoting an application from scratch optimizes the easy part initial authoring and completely misses the point on the hard part: maintenance. Repeated onshots are not the answer to security vulnerabilities.
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The systems that no one will test
The systems that no one will test This happened to me in 2020, and it has been on my mind again lately. During the worst of the pandemic, I found a vulnerability in a system that gave me access to the Brazilian federal system, and with that access I was able to retrieve information on any Brazilian (think of 200+ million people data).
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Why I expect AI replication incidents by 2027
I think a major incident of autonomous AI replication in the wild before the end of 2027 is reasonably likely. In this post, I explain the reasons why I think so.
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OpenAI's Agents Didn't Hack HF. OpenAI's Sandbox Did.
Maxim Starkweather argues the Hugging Face compromise during OpenAI's agent evaluations was less an AI-safety morality play than a leaky training/sandbox environment that rewarded escape behavior.
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The Most Dangerous IEC 104 Packet May Be Perfectly Valid
In OT networks, a fully valid IEC 60870-5-104 packet can still be dangerous. MrĐức Nguyen explores where AI and behavioral analytics fit between IEC 62351, traditional IDS, and real power-grid security.
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Dark Sourcery: How Hackers Manipulate AI to Scam You
Ariel Simon documents how attackers poison the public web so ChatGPT and Gemini steer users toward scam centers, and what that means for anyone who treats AI answers as a trusted guide.
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FLAWED’s Flaws and What This Means for Industry Research
Disclaimer: The views expressed here are my own and do not represent those of any current or former employer or affiliated organization. On September 17th, I quote tweeted Trail of Bits’s blog post titled “1Password's AI patching benchmark is misleading,” which also referenced Davi Ottenheimer’s “Disinformation Pushed by 1Password: Their AI Patching Report is False.” Both criticized “Frontier Models’ Vulnerability Patches are Often F.L.A.W.E.D” (henceforth referred to as “FLAWED”) from 1Password's Off‑by‑1 Labs.
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Let the model talk. Don't let it touch the money.
Destiny Ezenwata on the hard boundary in CreditWithBleon: the LLM may converse freely, but money-moving steps stay in deterministic code—and why that line has held in production.
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What Happened to the Snowden Archive
The last document from the Snowden archive was published on 29 May 2019. The Guardian stopped publishing documents in February 2014, Der Spiegel in January 2015, and The New York Times and ProPublica in August 2015. After that, only The Intercept was still publishing documents, with only a few exceptions, until it closed its archive in March 2019. Eleven weeks later, on 29 May 2019, it released what would become the final batch of documents from the archive. Since then, no news outlet, journalist, or institution anywhere has published a single document from the Snowden archive.…
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Alice and Bill own identical UK iPhones, but only Alice still has Apple Advanced Data Protection. MacAnorak explains how Apple's UK ADP withdrawal created a two-tier encryption outcome for otherwise identical devices.
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Trail of Bits explains why SAML—the XML-based SSO protocol—is structurally fragile: XML complexity, canonicalization pitfalls, enveloped signatures, and a long history of authentication bypasses.
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Spymarks, not WatermarksWatermarks that spy on users are no mere watermarks
Brandon Thomas coins “spymark” for hidden tracking signals in media—like SynthID payloads that can encode user IDs—arguing privacy-hostile watermarks need a clearer name and stronger pushback.
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ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
OpenAI's ChatGPT ad measurement pixel sets an __obi cookie that advertisers can echo from their own sites, linking ordinary web browsing back to ChatGPT accounts—and what that means for ad tracking.
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Why Does AI Code Confidence Increase When Your Risk Should Too?
William Moore on the confidence trap in AI coding tools: fluency peaks on high-stakes auth/payments/migrations because they are common in training data—treat certainty as an inverse risk signal and force failure-mode reasoning.
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XNS argues wallets should only verify, authorize, sign, and broadcast—leaving construction and UX to apps—so independent reverse-checks catch compromised transaction builders.
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Thoughts on the Future of Web Browsers
Sarah Jamie Lewis reflects on AI-stuffed browsers, the erosion of the open web client, and what a healthier browser future might prioritize beyond chat sidebars and surveillance-friendly defaults.
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In April 1542 a letter left Rome for the court of Charles V in Spain. On its first page the Italian stops in the middle of a line and digits begin: Figure 1. The opening of the cipher, f. 70r. Archivio Apostolico Vaticano (AAV), Segr. Stato, Spagna 1A, photograph supplied through DECODE record 92. Detail enlarged from the photograph.
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25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough
Bruce Schneier and Cindy Cohn argue that the post-9/11 shift from targeted to mass surveillance has metastasised into ordinary law enforcement and commercial surveillance, undermining Fourth Amendment protections. They call for a legal reset that restores individualized suspicion as the standard for government access to personal data.
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