Articles tagged "Security"
Articles tagged with "Security"
Social Engineering an LLM
LLMs are getting better, they say. And I agree. I'm finding them to be more helpful with coding now than a few years ago. They retain context a little better, drift less, and tend to hallucinate less. But what happens when someone with malicious intent uses the same techniques that make LLMs helpful to manipulate them into crossing ethical boundaries?
You share your life on Facebook...
Somewhat related to the “if you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to fear” argument.
Why I Moved from Signal to WhatsApp
It's probably one of the major contributors to making secure, encrypted, safe communication accessible to all. I recommend it to anyone, if you're not already encrypting your communications.
How Apple can Ethically unlock the iPhone for the FBI
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CitizenFour
I wasn't sure what to expect; I'd been keeping up to date with the information Edward Snowden had released to Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald already, as has most of the world. Similarly, I had read...
Is Fingerprint Authentication Breeding Insecurity?
So, should you be concerned about the security implications of giving your fingerprint to your phone?
The Nothing to Hide argument
"If you aren't doing anything illegal why would you care if someone captures your license plate number?" "If I'm not doing anything illegal, why do the police need to record my license plate number?" ...
Privacy and Security in a Mobile Phone World
This question, though, was met with silence, a pause, a smile and a one line response: "I'll have to write a whole blog post about that topic!"
Making the Switch from Google
My problem now is they know too much. Yes, they already know a lot, but so far they only know what I make public. Now they want to know my secrets. They've indexed every web page my name appears on al...
Will Cloud Computing Violate your Privacy and Security?
That's what I understood from the show. I'm not entirely sure how Chrome fits in to the equation, but I'll get to that later.
Never trust your users!
This could mean asking the user if they're sure that the want to delete an appointment from their calendar, checking a provided email address is valid or prompting them to save changes before moving t...
How strong is your password?
Having played around with it a bit, it's great for telling if a given password is strong, but don't worry too much if it tells you its weak.