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Security quotes of the week
Hopefully, Microsoft is in bed with various governments to allow them to
listen in on our calls. This sounds crazy, but no. It would be an ironic
twist, but if it were the case, Microsoft would be required to keep the
quality high so everyone doesn't bail out and go elsewhere.
-- John
C. Dvorak on Skype
With AI systems becoming more common, we have to start worrying about security. A network intrusion may be all the more serious if it is a neural net that is affected. New results indicate that it may be easier than we thought to provide data to a learning program that causes it to learn the wrong things.
-- Alex
Armstrong on poison attacks against AI systemsIf you like ScFi you will have seen or read scenarios where the robot or computer, always evil, is defeated by being asked a logical program that has no solution or is distracted by being asked to compute Pi to a billion billion digits. The key idea is that, given machine intelligence, the trick to defeating it is to feed it the wrong data. (Log in to post comments)
Security quotes of the week Posted Jul 26, 2012 19:46 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
FWIW, setting up a Mumble[1] server is dead simple and always does SSL encryption (it makes its own certs if you don't provide one). If the family ever feels the need to do Skype, it's what I'd use instead.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumble_(software)
Security quotes of the week Posted Aug 1, 2012 9:04 UTC (Wed) by valhalla (subscriber, #56634) [Link]
It is simple to setup a mumble server in your own network, not so if you are a random skype user and want to use mumble to call somebody on the other side of the internet.
Also, mumble does not allow cheap calls to POTS numbers, which is something a full skype replacement should do.
Security quotes of the week Posted Jul 27, 2012 16:49 UTC (Fri) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]
Yup, that's the sort of response I expect out of Dvorak.
Why is he still relevant, again?
Security quotes of the week Posted Aug 2, 2012 12:02 UTC (Thu) by TRauMa (guest, #16483) [Link]
I've seen a lot of Spam where the only explanation I could find for it's existence was that it tried to soften the Bayes filters of Spam scanners.
Security quotes of the week Posted Aug 14, 2012 3:40 UTC (Tue) by Zizzle (guest, #67739) [Link]
I suspect the goal of black hats these days would be to feed the AI bad data to get it to advertise or redirect you somewhere where they can make some coin, not defeat it.
Exploit the trust we have in "Siri" or whatever we use.
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