Mastodawn

liam o 🦆Oct 20, 2024

Australian #linguistics researchers, there's work to do

CC @lingthusiasm

liam o 🦆Oct 11, 2024

What a name for that first political party 🙃
Easy to choose who to preference dead last
#AusPol

liam o 🦆Sep 12, 2024

Whoa. It all makes sense now 😲

liam o 🦆Sep 6, 2024

Every time I walk past this street I feel like there's a chance I'll turn down it, but it kinda depends on where I'm at at the time

liam o 🦆Aug 6, 2024

It's nice that Apple does AI processing on the user-controlled endpoint, and an interesting side-effect of this is that the prompts used can be read.
However the "do not hallucinate / make up information" prompts show a fundamental misunderstanding about how AI models work and will be mostly ineffective. Models don't "know" what information is factual vs hallucinated.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/5/24213861/apple-intelligence-instructions-macos-15-1-sequoia-beta

‘You are a helpful mail assistant,’ and other Apple Intelligence instructions

Here are some of the prompts that Apple Intelligence is using to guide AI models in the macOS 15.1 Sequoia developer beta.

The Verge

liam o 🦆Jul 9, 2024

I love that OWASP ZAP maintains a "naughty and nice" list of commercial companies that use ZAP and who contributes back to the project (financially or by code commits) and who doesn't.
It's disappointing but not surprising to see how long the "naughty" list is
https://www.zaproxy.org/third-party-services/

ZAP – Third Party Products and Services

Third Party Products and Services which use or integrate with ZAP.

liam o 🦆Jun 28, 2024

I am going to perform wireless attacks to steal data, but i'm going to conduct them at some of the most surveilled locations in Australia, and in different city's airports so the activities can be linked to my travel. I am also going to conduct the attacks on planes while in flight, which will limit the number of potential suspects to passengers. I am a genius cybercriminal and I will never be caught 🧠

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/man-charged-with-evil-twin-wifi-scam-at-airports-and-on-flights/news-story/a6143f56b0b060f34003bb6968e92588

liam o 🦆Jun 21, 2024

Optus broke access controls securing their site.
... and found the problem themselves
... and fixed it
... but didn't fix the broken access control on the API.
then a year later it was exploited to dump 9.5M user's data.
Big oof 😣

Source: https://comcourts.gov.au/file/Federal/P/VID429/2024/3981938/event/31836639/document/2300547

liam o 🦆Jun 3, 2024

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If so, you are eligible to apply for the Katie Duczmal Memorial Scholarship of $10,000
Details and how to apply can be found here: https://cybercx.com.au/careers/katie-duczmal-memorial-scholarship/
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Katie Duczmal Memorial Scholarship

The Katie Duczmal Memorial Scholarship aims to support female students who have an interest in a cyber security career and are commencing or continuing their cyber security education at an Australian university or TAFE.

CyberCX

liam o 🦆May 1, 2024

Good news everyone - being able to access other user's data without authorisation is not a cyber security issue!
#qantas