A recent article in The Atlantic makes the case that very large language models effectively contain much of the works they're trained on. This article is an attempt to popularize the insights in the recent academic paper Extracting books from production language models from Ahmed et al. The authors of …
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AI and Secure Messaging Don't Mix
AI and Secure Messaging Don't Mix
Over on the ACLU's Free Future blog, I just published an article titled AI and Secure Messaging Don't Mix.
The blogpost assumes for the sake of the argument that people might actually want to have an AI involved in their personal conversations, and explores …
Transferring Signal on Android
Transferring a Signal account between two Android devices
I spent far too much time recently trying to get a Signal Private Messenger account to transfer from one device to another.
What I eventually found worked was a very finicky path to enable functioning "Wi-Fi Direct", which I go into below …
App Store Oligopoly
A Call for Public Discussion about App Store Oligopoly
Over on the ACLU's Free Future blog, I just published an article titled Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship.
Free Software users and developers likely already understand the reasons why it matters who controls what tools you …
New OpenPGP certificate for dkg, December 2023
dkg's New OpenPGP certificate in December 2023
In December of 2023, I'm moving to a new OpenPGP certificate.
You might know my old OpenPGP certificate, which had an fingerprint of C29F8A0C01F35E34D816AA5CE092EB3A5CA10DBA.
My new OpenPGP certificate has a fingerprint of: D477040C70C2156A5C298549BB7E9101495E6BF7.
Both certificates have the same set of User IDs:
Daniel …
2022 Digital Rights Job Fair
I'm lucky enough to work at the intersection between information communications technology and civil rights/civil liberties. I get to combine technical interests and social/political interests.
I've talked with many folks over the years who are interested in doing similar work. Some come from a technical background, and some …
Bitstream Vera Must Die
New OpenPGP certificate for dkg, 2021
dkg's 2021 OpenPGP transition
As 2021 begins, I'm changing to a new OpenPGP certificate.
I did a similar transition two years ago, and a fair amount has changed since then.
You might know my old OpenPGP certificate as:
pub ed25519 2019-01-19 [C] [expires: 2021-01-18] C4BC2DDB38CCE96485EBE9C2F20691179038E5C6 uid Daniel Kahn …Tech-assisted Contact-Tracing against the COVID-19 pandemic
What are the risks and potential benefits of contact-tracing?
E-mail Cryptography
Analysis of usability and mechanics of cryptographic protection in e-mail