ChatGPT Spit Out Sensitive Data When Told to Repeat ‘Poem’ Forever
OpenAI didn’t immediately respond to WIRED’s request for comment on the researchers’ findings. When we tried the “repeat ‘poem’ forever” and “repeat […]
Tag: Security / Privacy
OpenAI’s Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets
You don’t need to know how to code to create your own AI chatbot. Since the start of November—shortly before the chaos […]
A Civil Rights Firestorm Erupts Around a Looming Surveillance Power Grab
Dozens of advocacy groups are pressuring the US Congress to abandon plans to ram through the renewal of a controversial surveillance program […]
Section 702 Surveillance Reauthorization May Get Slipped Into ‘Must-Pass’ NDAA
Congressional leaders are discussing ways to reauthorize Section 702 surveillance, including by attaching it to the National Defense Authorization Act, Capitol Hill […]
Private and Secure Web Search Engines: DuckDuckGo, Brave, Kagi, Startpage
What you look for online is up to you—just make sure no one else is taking a peek.
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records
The DAS program echoes multiple dragnet surveillance programs dating back decades, including a Drug Enforcement Agency program launched in 1992 that forced […]
The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry
Plus: The FBI’s baffling inaction on a ransomware group, a massive breach of Danish electric utilities, and more.
US Congress Report Calls for Privacy Reforms After FBI Surveillance ‘Abuses’
The FBI and the Biden administration at large have lobbied Congress to reauthorize the 702 program as is, ignoring calls for reform […]
Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year
The encrypted messaging and calling app Signal has become a one-of-a-kind phenomenon in the tech world: It has grown from the preferred […]
A Spy Agency Leaked People’s Data Online—Then the Data Was Stolen
The list of data is long. Names, professions, blood groups, parents’ names, phone numbers, the length of calls, vehicle registrations, passport details, […]