Security research, field notes, and practical experiments
Independent technical notes by Willis Vandevanter.
This normally takes a few days and a release within a week or two is reasonable. Within about ten minutes (!) this website was fielding probes for percent-encoded traversal sequences, indicating that automated watchers are keeping an eye on public …
[Sama] estimates they’ll declare AGI achieved internally by December 2026.
Via Latent Space: [AINews] OpenAI to reach …
this is a great read by Christian Catalini. i have been enjoying recent discussions on where we see the economy/policy move for closed vs …
We challenge these constraints by demonstrating that token-level iterative optimization can succeed without gradients or priors. We introduce RAILS (RAndom Iterative Local Search), a framework that operates solely on model logits. … Crucially, …
in previous posts we have looked at guardrail triggers, token burn, hostname beacons, malicious skills, context bombs, exploding search space, service sandbagging, and GCG attacks. this time: coordination poison. note, although there could be real world …
in previous posts we have looked at guardrail triggers, token burn, hostname beacons, malicious skills, context bombs, exploding search space, and service sandbagging. this time I want to ideate on a potential application of GCG.
active defense is the practice …
in previous posts we have looked at guardrail triggers, token burn, hostname beacons, malicious skills, context bombs, exploding search space, and GCG attacks. this time: service sandbagging.
active defense is planting traps that force an agent to reveal …
From Tracebit’s
in previous posts we have been looking at different active defense approaches: guardrail triggers, token burn, hostname beacon, malicious skills, context bombs, service sandbagging, and GCG attacks. I want to explore one I recently read in an academic paper. …
in the previous post we looked at hostname beacons. this time: malicious skills.
active defense is the practice of planting traps that force an agent to reveal itself or change the economics of its operation.
skills are a high-signal trap because they are …