Magic Security Dust
Adam Shostack is selling magic security dust.
It’s about time someone is commercializing this essential technology.
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Mind Control… No, Not Like That
[Vintage Geek] found an interesting device from 1996 called “MindDrive” which claims you can control your computer with your brain. Oddly, though, it doesn’t connect to your head. Instead, it …read more Continue reading Mind Control… No, Not Like That
Radioactive Water Was Once a (Horrifying) Health Fad
Take a little time to watch the history of Radithor, a presentation by [Adam Blumenberg] into a quack medicine that was exactly what it said on the label: distilled water …read more Continue reading Radioactive Water Was Once a (Horrifying) Health Fad
On the Poisoning of LLMs
Interesting essay on the poisoning of LLMs—ChatGPT in particular:
Given that we’ve known about model poisoning for years, and given the strong incentives the black-hat SEO crowd has to manipulate results, it’s entirely possible that bad actors have been poisoning ChatGPT for months. We don’t know because OpenAI doesn’t talk about their processes, how they validate the prompts they use for training, how they vet their training data set, or how they fine-tune ChatGPT. Their secrecy means we don’t know if ChatGPT has been safely managed.
They’ll also have to update their training data set at some point. They can’t leave their models stuck in 2021 forever…
Teardown: Analog Radionic Analyzer
Have you ever looked up a recipe online, and before you got to the ingredients, you had to scroll through somebody’s meandering life story? You just want to know how …read more Continue reading Teardown: Analog Radionic Analyzer
Don’t Worry, This Box Will Protect You From 5G!
As part of an investigation into opposition to 5G mobile phone networks in the English town of Glastonbury the BBC reporter [Rory Cellan-Jones] shared details of a so-called 5G protection device that was advertised as casting a bubble of 5G-free space around its owner. This set [The Quackometer] writing, because …read more
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GoDaddy Shutters 14,000 Subdomains Tied to ‘Snake Oil’ Scams
GoDaddy worked with researchers to shut down 15,000 domain-shadowing websites tied to bogus affiliate marketing offers promoted via spam campaigns. Continue reading GoDaddy Shutters 14,000 Subdomains Tied to ‘Snake Oil’ Scams
Goodyear Aero Thinks Flying Cars are a Thing
The 2019 Geneva International Motor Show has a number of “concept” vehicles. These are vehicles that usually include some cool feature that isn’t really practical — at least today. For example, in the past, concept cars have had adjustable color interior lighting, plug-in hybrid engines, and power windows — all …read more
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Tenable CEO blasts ‘smoke and mirrors’ of cybersecurity industry
A good chunk of the cybersecurity industry is “smoke and mirrors,” with companies hawking shiny products that aren’t needed to block most hacks, Tenable CEO Amit Yoran said in an interview with CyberScoop earlier this month “It’s an industry that has fed and continues to feed, to a large extent, off of fearmongering,” Yoran said on the sidelines of the vendor-happy RSA Conference in San Francisco. The RSA Conference is a feeding frenzy for companies pushing products on the trade-show floor. Vendors spend big on things like booths, parties, and hotel suites to woo potential clients. (Tenable had a booth demonstrating some of its technology.) In a blunt interview, Yoran reflected on where the “hype-driven” side of the business, as he called it, had gotten the cybersecurity industry. “The millions of dollars that people are spending, all the hype and the sexy marketing and the AI and the anomaly-behavioral…whatever buzzword […]
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Hackaday Links: September 30, 2018
If you’re looking for an Open Source computer, good luck. The RISC-V stuff isn’t there yet, and with anything else you’re going to be dealing with NDA’d Intel, AMD, or some other proprietary cruft. System76, however, makes the most big-O Open computer, and they will be announcing a new Open computer called the Thelio next month. It was on display at the Open Hardware Summit, although smartly there were no pictures taken of this box. Liliputing has reported on it, but there are a few things wrong with that speculation. No, it’s not RISC-V. We’re looking at x86 here. …read more