February 1, 2023

More stuff on detecting AI written text vs human written text.

First is from OpenAI, who are probably geniuses. They create a problem and then show up with the solution. Both available for a fee. Like the old Indian snake charmers, first they let the cobras out into the village, then they come by offering to catch any cobras that just might happen to be loose in the village.

https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/

And a paper on catching GPT text.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11305

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A truly delightful thread!

We have one client which we manage an Azure tenant for. They require, and have specified, a zero-tolerance for device non-compliance.

In roughly two hours, 1647 devices are about to be locked out of access to organisation resources, wiped, and removed from Intune permanently.

4 meetings, 124 emails, and two phone calls a day for the last 14 days have warned them of this.

We’ve been *very* clear about what is about to happen for the last 13 months. Their internal management have *acknowledged* what is about to happen. But still, time marches on.

Death by middle-management.

https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/109777576538835360

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Robert O'Callahan @rocallahan

My kids are studying computer science and every so often I have to tell them "I'm so sorry". Today it's "Dad, do lines in text files always end with \n"?

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Anthony Majanlahti @antmoose

This Pompeian wall displays two distinct kinds of #epigraphy we'll look at for this week's #EpigraphyTuesday. At top is a bit of ad copy in a measured and dignified script, and below it is the hasty scrawl of electoral hustling, in #Pompeii as it would be in #Naples or #Rome.

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AndrewMohawkᴵ'ᵐ ᶠᶦⁿᵉ ᵗʰᵃⁿᵏˢ, ᴬⁿᵈʳᵉʷˀ @AndrewMohawk

Plz share me your funniest security me-me's on this webpage

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How to modernize C arrays for greater memory safety: a case-study in refactoring the Linux kernel and a look to the future

https://people.kernel.org/kees/bounded-flexible-arrays-in-c

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Matthijs R. Koot @mrkoot

UK MoD: Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) - Joint Doctrine Note (JDN) 1/23 (.pdf, Jan 2023, 114pp) assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… This JDN explores the fundamentals of ISR. UK moves from traditional/linear intel to activity-based intel & problem-centric ISR.

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Adam Cerious @Browtweaten

intern: is this font okay? boss: *not looking up* sure whatever

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Sascha Stronach is Screaming @understatesmen

so we're at the stage where we can trap self-driving cars in salt circles and we're detecting inhuman infiltrators by counting the fingers on their hands I think it's time we stop being judgemental about historical people being superstitious

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Russian Army Tactical Communications

https://wavellroom.com/2022/12/19/russian-army-tactical-communications/

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Christian Palme 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇨🇿 @ChPalme

Dmitri Trenin has been expelled from the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences. kkrva.se/expulsion-of-i… Trenin is a former GRU agent and a former director of the Moscow Carnegie Center who has come out as a rabid supporter of Russia's genocidal war against Ukraine.

kkrva.seExpulsion of international fellowThe international fellow Dmitri Trenin has been expelled from the academy on 5 October 2022 due to his active support of the unjustified and illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine in both speech and writing.

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I must say, this is literally the takeaway for any cyber security solution. “It has a huge role to play in improving defences, but it has been a disappointment so far.”

Ciaran Martin @ciaranmartinoxf

Cyber insurance could have “a huge role to play in improving defences in a market-based economy [but] it has been a huge disappointment in that sense so far”, I said to @helentbiz for her important & insightful piece for @FT 👇 https://t.co/45W7ROqFDs

Financial Times @FT

The corporate world is losing its grip on cyber risk https://t.co/dG6npnGC85

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