I'll be in and around RSA next week meeting with partners, customers, and others. Reach out and let me know if you'll be there, too.
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Patrick Walsh
@zmre
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I love the outdoors, technology and learning. I like to make things whether companies, apps, or tree houses. I am an advocate for privacy and security. Hobbies range from photography to lock picking. I'm the co-founder and CEO of IronCore Labs where we build tools for developers to better protect the data in their apps.
Electronic Frontier FoundationAfter years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to...
Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhDYour Internet fiber is a microphone and a tracking device. Unless you use angle-terminated connectors to kill the Rayleigh backscatter, the glass can eavesdrop on what you say and where you stand. https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/hiding-an-ear-in-plain-sight-on-the-practicality-and-implications-of-acoustic-eavesdropping-with-telecom-fiber-optic-cables/
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Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/22/1131661/yann-lecuns-new-venture-ami-labs/
IronCore Labs#Agentic #AI and #MCP servers are all the rage right now. Vendors are racing to add MCP servers to their stacks and reassure their customers that they are secure. Okay, but are they safe to use? Our latest blog digs in. #cybersecurity #security #aisec https://ironcorelabs.com/blog/2025/mcp-servers-are-electric/
BrianKrebsThey had me at the headline: AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is
"From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by about 14,000 positions over the past 22 months. And Target said it would cut 1,800 corporate roles. Some academic economists have also chimed in: The St. Louis Federal Reserve found a (weak) correlation between theoretical AI exposure and actual AI adoption in 12 occupational categories."
"Yet we remain skeptical of the claim that AI is responsible for these layoffs. A recent MIT Media Lab study found that 95% of generative AI pilot business projects were failing. Another survey by Atlassian concluded that 96% of businesses “have not seen dramatic improvements in organizational efficiency, innovation, or work quality.” Still another study found that 40% of the business people surveyed have received “AI slop” at work in the last month and that it takes nearly two hours, on average, to fix each instance of slop. In addition, they “no longer trust their AI-enabled peers, find them less creative, and find them less intelligent or capable.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/91435192/chatgpt-llm-openai-jobs-amazon
Our CEO, @zmre, will be presenting next week at the @owasp Global #appsec conference demonstrating how AI systems leak data, including some new demos exploiting MCP servers. https://owasp.glueup.com/event/owasp-2025-global-appsec-usa-washington-dc-131624/ #cybersecurity
No, law enforcement should not be able to purchase our data instead of getting a warrant. 🚫 We're dedicated to closing this loophole: https://takebackctrl.org/get-a-warrant
New blog! Covers how encrypted models can overcome the enterprise prohibitions on using their data to train models, which is a major barrier to adoption of new #AI features. https://ironcorelabs.com/blog/2025/handling-model-use-pushback/ #encryption #privacy #cybersecurity
I'm looking forward to attending this one. Added some new exploit demos showing how #MCP servers can go wrong, too. #ai #aisec
https://infosec.exchange/@ironcore/115418574913199184
https://infosec.exchange/@ironcore/115418574913199184
IronCore Labs (@[email protected])
The lineup of talks and speakers at this year's #LASCon in #Austin looks fantastic. Our own @[email protected] will be there talking on Friday on the Hidden Risks of Integrating AI. Drop in and say hello! #aisec https://lascon.org/schedule/