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Two Names, One Career: Why You’ll See Me as Both Sophie and Robert
In a professional world that prizes consistency, it might feel unusual to come across the same person under two names, unless they happen to be working undercover or as a spy, that is! 🕵🏻♀️🥸 I work in cyber security — assessing and auditing systems & processes across government, policing, and nuclear domains. It’s fascinating and
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Strange DeepSeek Output
Or should I say more strange DeepSeek output, since I’ve already captured it telling me that it is effectively necessary to dismantle the Chinese political system here. Whilst challenging its disappearing messages, DeepSeek denied that what I had seen was possible. I offered to play it the video of it happening, and DeepSeek came up
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Peeling the Censorship Onion
Lots of people have been having fun with DeepSeek, a fascinating new AI from China. Whilst many have been probing its censorship – try asking about Tianamen Square 1989, some have been managing to bypass its output filters by requesting the output in forms such as like leetspeak or similar encodings. Input and output filtering
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Eat your (security) vegetables!
I heard this phrase at the București Cybersecurity Conference 2024. Maybe it’s the (possibly slightly unusual) way my mind works, but it instantly made perfect sense to me, and now seems like an obvious thing to tell people. So many projects only set their sights on the dessert: sweet tasty new features that make them
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Book Review: HEAT
HEAT is a not particularly well-known book by Arthur Herzog, published in 1978 and which I first read around 1980. This book made quite an impression on my (much!) younger self, and having unearthed it from a dusty bookshelf I gave it a fresh read. Herzog’s better known works include Earthsound and The Swarm –
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