6 stories tagged backdoors, newest first.
252 points by sbulaev | 118 comments
An arXiv paper showing AI models can embed encrypted neural network backdoors that provably hide arbitrary capabilities from elicitation-based safety evaluations.
1132 points by meetpateltech | 422 comments
Anthropic research post reporting that a small, fixed number of poisoned training samples can backdoor large language models regardless of model size.
905 points by hn_acker | 262 comments
EFF Deeplinks post reporting that France's National Assembly rejected a proposed mandate for encryption backdoors in messaging services.
340 points by jjgreen | 202 comments
Alec Muffett blog post reporting that NCSC, GCHQ and UK government removed advice recommending Apple encryption for legal professionals, coinciding with Apple's backdoor lawsuit.
415 points by mooreds | 58 comments
watchTowr Labs blog post on registering abandoned domains referenced by backdoored webshells, gaining access to compromised systems including government servers.
502 points by whatever3 | 174 comments
Atlas Obscura article from 2016 recounting the history of US government attempts, including by the NSA, to insert backdoors into encryption.