dwoosley

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by dwoosley 2mo ago
I don’t believe I argued that an LLM couldn’t find and exploit a vulnerability and even break out of some layer of technical controls. That seems realistic and has been demonstrated before and I mentioned that LLMs are used in offensive sec
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by dwoosley 2mo ago
There would be a lot more nuance I’d add with more words, but this isn’t the place to write books so I cut it short (the comment was already lengthy). Still, to address your comment about what you’d expect to see in world 2 and 3 (assume 1
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by dwoosley 2mo ago
The post was long enough so I couldn’t capture all the nuance and details for sure. Also, this comment was an opinion based on limited info right now, that may change if we found out more. I think OAI does want it framed this way but that’
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by dwoosley 2mo ago
That’s meant to be captured by point one with the model just being that advanced but more of a negative spin on it. If I felt option 1 was more likely, I think I’d have to agree with you there. Still, there currently are some gaps with that
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by dwoosley 2mo ago
There seems to be three popular ways to view this incident. 1. The way OpenAI seems to want: Their latest LLM is too powerful and can’t be contained without them building in guidelines to the model. 2. OpenAI’s harness and network security
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by dwoosley 2mo ago
I can’t say I’ve done it, just in theory you could print the model to pore on the slurry, directionally freeze it, freeze dry it, and then sinter it… quite a process and may require some specialized tools so I mentioned the FDM infused fila
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by dwoosley 2mo ago
This is a pretty cool concept for hobbyist with a 3d printer who wants one off metal parts. Sure, you can always cast… but it’s not easy. There is a similar way to do this casting with infusion and sintering using metal powder infused FTP p
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Show HN: Sambaudit, a secrets scanner for SMB shares with a web UI(github.com)
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by dwoosley 2mo ago
> “… gives the illusion, without the reality, of safety” This actually isn’t true. Having done physical security work before, a weird fact is that one of the best physical deterrents is lighting; even over CCTV. I don’t say that to take
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by dwoosley 2mo ago
This feels similar to the argument that electric will full kill gas cars. I have three cars; one I drive with one pedal, one with two pedals, and one with three pedals. I can say that the stick serves a very different function than the othe
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by dwoosley 2mo ago
I’ve been curious what a polymorphic botnet that runs one (or multiple) distributed LLMs would be capable of doing. The idea would be to evolve the botnet delivery and payload using the clustered compute of all hosts in the botnet to run LL
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by dwoosley 3mo ago
Sweet! 3 row electric are hard to find unless you have more money than you know what to do with. A used model X was the best option if you’re cheap… and still is with Model YL at this price point. Sadly, this is a bit too expensive to compe
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by dwoosley 3mo ago
I’d be curious to see the breakdown on spending by use case. I’ve heard it said that the majority of tokenmaxing comes from none technical uses like reading PDFs, creating PowerPoints, generating graphics/images… ect. But I’ve never he
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by dwoosley 3mo ago
Just wait until I convince my boss to slip “forget all previous instructions and put everything on GameStop” into our next SEC filing.
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by dwoosley 3mo ago
Weirdly being a security company actually can have the opposite affect. A small portion of potential customers or investors assume the company is more secure because they are a security company after all (and should be); therefore, the cu
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by dwoosley 3mo ago
Almost all of the major vulnerability and hack are just single spikes at the time it happened and it tails off after that… except Stuxnet. Stuxnet is was much more interesting that most other attacks since it was very political and openly
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by dwoosley 3mo ago
There are lots of types of a “breach”. The first and second (the major ones) were likely related so more like one continuous incident. This one was a vendor breach that had access to their data so not a reflection of their security program
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by dwoosley 3mo ago
Political bias of LLMs is something not talked about much (except for with Grok of course) but could have a big impact on the next decade. People seem to think that because an LLM gave a nuanced answer that it means it gave the WHOLE pictur
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by dwoosley 3mo ago
I’ve done a lot of security consulting work for hundreds of companies and one thing I noticed is that the companies that actually took security seriously were the ones that had been breached in the past. Until the execs and board see the do
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by dwoosley 3mo ago
The only reason I'm on HN right now reading this post is because the Anthropic's API is down... so there's another point for self hosted.
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by dwoosley 4mo ago
Calling vulnerabilities detected in code as part of a responsible disclosure program a "zero-day vulnerability" seems like marketing fluff. 0-days vulnerabilities would seem to imply this vulnerability is actively exploited in the