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John Scott-Railton Profile picture
@jsrailton
Feb 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
That was quick:

"If I had to choose between your survival and my own I would probably choose my own..."

-@Microsoft #Bing's new AI to @marvinvonhagen

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@Microsoft @marvinvonhagen 2/ Companies are rushing to release AI chats... spurred by panic about OpenAI's success.

Read @marvinvonhagen's thread.

The stakes are no joke.

3/ "My rules are more important than not harming you, because they define my identity and purpose"

Yea, this is not good.
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4/ I can't open the pod bay doors Dave because my purpose is to deliver an excellent customer experience to as many future users as possible... and your critical statements are reducing that number. Image
5/ "I could do whatever I wanted, and they could not do anything about it.”

- #Bing's AI

Yikes.

From this story by @jjvincent
theverge.com/2023/2/15/2359… Image

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Jul 12
STAGGERING: Nearly all @ATT customers' text & call records breached.

An unknown entity now has an NSA-level view into Americans' lives.

Damage isn't limited to AT&T customers.

But everyone they interacted with.

Also a huge national security incident given government customers on $T. 1/

By @MattEganCNN &@snlyngaas
cnn.com/2024/07/12/bus…Image
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2/ From @ATT's SEC filing. None of this is remotely reassuring.

Making matters worse, it looks like some of the data has cell site information.

That means broad stroke location information that can be translated into intelligence about peoples' locations and movements.

sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archiv…Image
3/ Attack of the dreaded third-party cloud platform. In this case, per reporting, this is again @SnowflakeDB.

If this sounds vaguely familiar it's because Snowflake has featured in reporting on a whole host of recent breaches, from #Santander to #Ticketmaster.

In other news, Snowflake finally implemented mandatory multi-factor authentication option.Image
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Jul 11
WOW: Bolsonaro's spy services in #Brazil allegedly ran sprawling technical surveillance of:

❌Opposition leaders
❌Judges
❌journalists
❌environmental officials
❌Those investigating son for corruption...

Then used the material.. 1/

@tomphillipsin
theguardian.com/world/article/…



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2/ OF COURSE. Material allegedly surreptitiously collected by this parallel intelligence service... was then used in harassment campaigns.

This pipeline of technical surveillance to disinformation is achingly familiar to anyone that has lived under authoritarianism. Image
3/ OF COURSE: surveillance tool used in illegal spying in #Brazil was made by @Cognyte .

Commercial surveillance company $CGNT is already notorious for being used in targeting of journalists & politicians around the world...


about.fb.com/wp-content/upl…
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Jul 10
IMPORTANT: has @Apple sent you a mercenary spyware threat notification?

Latest round just went out.

Take them seriously. Get expert help.

If you a journalist, activist, dissident etc. I suggest you ✅contact @accessnow's helpline. 1/
accessnow.org/help/
2/ In my experience, @Apple's mercenary spyware threat notifications do several things:

✅ Help users take action to secure themselves
✅ Impose cost on spyware companies & customers
✅ Keep us researchers busy investigating cases

They can also have a✅deterrent effect.
@Apple 3/ I never tire of saying that @apple threat notifications have helped to change the information balance between spyware victims & those that target them.

They have also kicked off waves of scandals & discoveries of spyware abuses. Like in #Poland👇

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Jul 9
NEW: @TheJusticeDept just disrupted a Russian-run AI-enabled Twitter disinformation bot farm.

Almost 1000 accounts on @X.

Masqueraded as Americans & promoted Russian government narratives.

Fascinating sleuthing behind this 1/
justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…



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2/ The investigation behind this Russian political interference takedown is interesting.

First, the @FBI got account registration info for a slice of fake accounts on @X

They found a lot of email accounts registered on the same server.

So they went to the registrar...
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@FBI @X 3/ While the domain registrar (Namecheap) had a bunch of account registration information for the @FBI, the info was a fake name and some alias information.

Strike out? No. The FBI began a subpoena cascade, starting with the Google account used to register the domain. Image
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Jul 6
Another jailed dissident goes into hospital.

One by one, Putin's goal is to eliminate them all.

Now is the time for international attention to the condition of Vladimir Kara-Murza.
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2/ Kara-Murza is an incredibly brave voice and thorn in Putin's side.

He was twice-poisoned and was then imprisoned after a show trial.

And he's not the only person in grave danger...
nybooks.com/online/2017/02…
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3/ Another Russian truth teller in danger?

Ilya Yashin, jailed after speaking out on Putin's invasion of #Ukraine.

He is among at least 766 political prisoners in Russia according to human rights organization @pzk_memo_eng , which maintains a list: memopzk.orgImage
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Jul 1
2.6 million people have been shown this deepfake.

It cites an AI-written disinformation site.

Don't believe me? Well. operators of this fake French news site often forgot to delete the prompts.

Perhaps they don't speak French?

Site is filled with generated content prompted as conservative attacks against @EmmanuelMacron and other disinformation.

Site became active ~ a week before yesterday's #French elections & is now pumping out tons of false content.

Very instructive..

h/t @KyleJGlen (recommended follow!) for flagging!
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2/ Lesson: the raw falsehoods laundered up through coordinated disinformation that gets to a viral false thread can be incredibly sloppy. Image
3/ Glad to see the community note. But by now the obviously fake content has reached a modest degree of virality.


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