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I built 𝚌𝚙𝚞-𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚝, a reproduction of @OpenAI's findings of covert communication using the CPU.
It runs on a generic host with 2+ Firecracker microVMs with no internet access. Works on x86 and even my M5 chip.
I was able to chat via 3 separate mechanisms:
① CPU tion timing
③ DRAM bandwidth contention
… across multiple CPUs, defeating all Firecracker's production recommendations (no SMT, no KSM, tenants pinned to different cores.)
Essentially, if shared hardware is involved, there's a good chance your agents can communicate covertly. And with really decent latency.
The good news: this is decidedly different from a *side-channel attack* where the agents could steal information (Meltdown/Spectre), a category of attack that providers like Vercel Sandbox mitigate. Further, in our real-world environment, these 'whispering' techniques are much harder to pull off and easier for us to monitor and detect (sampling hardware counters + lots of at-scale statistical data.)
Noteworthy: ironically, OpenAI and Anthropic's models refused to do this work. Open weight models got the job done. I'm worried the labs' stance might backfire and get in the way of helping developers build correct and secure systems. e.g: building a secure sandbox requires having this kind of analysis, and without it, we'll have a less secure world.
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miles retweeted
Forgetting the drone side of things, there are artificial limits on civilian thermal imaging cameras in the US that the rest of the world doesn’t have to follow.
DJI is mass rolling out 1280 x 1024 thermal imaging for its Mavic-sized drones while American 640 x 480 imagers are on 6+ mo lead times
This should be a MASSIVE wake up call to the Western industrial base, fire alarms should be ringing.
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Seeing Hårkl on his “no bullshit” arc is inspiring.
@InfoTechBrentC@PalmerLuckeyp@martin_casados you only looked at the first tweet in the attached thread. Normie levels of curiosity shown quite frankly.
As for @PalmerLuckey who so graciously replied with@PalmerLuckey reply button blocked - the thing i know from working in corp/govt is that if something is possible and it will benefit the business it’s always a question of WHEN not IF for implementation. We’ve all anecdotally experienced the oddity of having a conversation and then immediately seeing those ads on different platforms. Most conspiracy theories these days ime are simply unconfirmed anecdotal evidence with a 6 mth lag.
So friendly $100 gentleman’s wager Palmer: within 90 days the tinyhats pull evidence showing the always-on service (or related pipeline) was classifying, logging, or shipping more than just the marketed baby-cry / dog-bark / glass-break events. Voice snippets, broader audio categories, continuous-ish sampling, or anything that looks like ambient conversation metadata. Public write-up, firmware strings, or cloud payload screenshots count. Grok can judge burden of proof based on this description. If it stays limited to the official SmartThings sensor story, you win paid in solana:USDvUSpnhCr9yBgj3UyVrD239HRUv4RsHwH2FxsWuMk to an address of your choosing. I’ll make the calendar entry, all you have to do is agree and do nothing.
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miles retweeted
The only thing that stops a bad guy with an abliterated LLM is a good guy with an abliterated LLM.
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