Feed cleverhans-blog [copy] http://www.cleverhans.io/feed.xml has loading error: cURL error 22: The requested URL returned error: 404
Feed Security (b)log [copy] http://securityblogru.livejournal.com/data/rss has loading error: cURL error 22: The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden
a media-almost-archaeology on data that is too dirty for "AI" (39c3)
when datasets are scaled up to the volume of (partial) internet, together with the idea that scale will average out the noise, large dataset builders came up with a human-not-in-the-loop, cheaper-than-cheap-labor method to clean the datasets: heuristic filtering. Heuristics in this context are basically a set of rules came up by the engineers with their imagination and estimation to work best for their perspective of “cleaning”. Most datasets use heuristics adopted from existing ones, then add some extra filtering rules for specific characteristics of the datasets. I would like to invite you to...
AI Agent, AI Spy (39c3)
Agentic AI is the catch-all term for AI-enabled systems that propose to complete more or less complex tasks on their own, without stopping to ask permission or consent. What could go wrong? These systems are being integrated directly into operating systems and applications, like web browsers. This move represents a fundamental paradigm shift, transforming them from relatively neutral resource managers into an active, goal-oriented infrastructure ultimately controlled by the companies that develop these systems, not by users or application developers. Systems like Microsoft's "Recall," which create a comprehensive "photographic memory" of all user activity,...
Shit for Future: turning human shit into a climate solution (39c3)
Humanity has already crossed the point where simply reducing emissions will no longer be enough to keep global warming below 2°C. According to the IPCC (AR6, WGIII), it is now essential to actively remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere in order to meet global climate targets, maintain net-zero (or even net-negative emissions), and address the burden of historical emissions. At the same time, degraded soils and the climate crisis are a threat to global food security. Two years ago, I presented an overview of different methods available for carbon dioxide removal. Today, I want to...
Wer hat Angst vor dem Neutralitätsgebot? (39c3)
Wer überhaupt „neutral“ sein muss, was das bedeutet, und wer sich jetzt wehren muss. „Neutralität“ wird zum neuen Kampfbegriff: Weil sie gegen die menschenfeindliche Politik von Friedrich Merz protestieren, wirft die CDU Gruppen wie Omas gegen Rechts, Greenpeace und Correctiv vor, nicht neutral zu sein. Unter Berufung auf ein angeblich verletztes Neutralitätsgebot werden staatliche Förderungen gestrichen und NGOs geraten unter Beobachtung des Verfassungsschutzes. Julia Klöckner verbietet im Namen der „Neutralität“ Palestine-Shirts, Anstecknadeln und Regenbogenflaggen im Parlament. Die AfD fordert dazu auf, Lehrkräfte zu melden, die sich gegen Rechtsextremismus einsetzen oder entsprechende Positionen innerhalb der AfD kritisieren. Doch...
Lightning Talks - Tag 3 (39c3)
Lightning Talks - Tag 3 - **Lightning Talks Introduction** - **"Oma, erzähl mir von der Zukunft" oder: Wie wir weiter interessante Sachen machen, ohne den Planeten zu ruinieren 🌱** — *EstherD* - **Don't abuse the ecosystem** — *michele* - **The Climatepoetry.org video tool** — *Magnus Ahltorp* - **Neo-Kolonialismus & Katzenbilder - Installation zur Lieferkette von GenAI** — *Stefan, Yannik & Rike* - **Build social inventories with StashSphere** — *Maximilian Güntner* - **Invitation to the Fermentation Camp "Kvas 2026"** — *algoldor* - **Stretching nginx to its limits: a music player in the config file** — *Eloy* - **2D Graphics Creation with Graphite -...
Making the Magic Leap past NVIDIA's secure bootchain and breaking some Tesla Autopilots along the way (39c3)
The Tegra X2 is an SoC used in devices such as the Magic Leap One, and Tesla's Autopilot 2 & 2.5 promising a secure bootchain. But how secure really is the secure boot? In this talk I go over how I went from a secured Magic Leap One headset, to exploiting the bootloader over USB, to doing fault injection to dump the BootROM, to finding and exploiting an unpatchable vulnerability in the BootROM's USB recovery mode affecting all Tegra X2s. In mid 2024, a friend approached me about Magic Leap making their TX2 based XR...
Set-top box Hacking: freeing the 'Freebox' (39c3)
The French ISP 'Free' was the first to introduce a set-top box in France in 2002, named the Freebox. Four years later, the fifth version of the Freebox was released and distributed to customers. It comprises two devices: a router, and a PVR called the Freebox HD, both running Linux. The Freebox HD had innovative features at the time, such as live television control and HD capabilities. Such a device has a lot of potential for running homebrew, so I decided to hack it. I present how I got arbitrary code execution on the Freebox...
When 8 Bits is Overkill: Making Blinkenlights with a 1-bit CPU (39c3)
Over the last half year I have explored the Motorola mc14500 - a CPU with a true one-bit architecture - and made it simulate Conway's Game of Life. This talk gives a look into how implementing a design for such a simplistic CPU can work, and how it's possible to address 256 LEDs and half a kiloword of memory with just four bits of address space. In the late seventies, Motorola created a very cheap CPU, intended to replace logic circuits made from electromechanical relays. The resulting IC is so minimalistic that it can hardly...
BE Modded: Exploring and hacking the Vital Bracelet ecosystem (39c3)
The Vital Bracelet series is an ecosystem of interactive fitness toys, content on memory chips, and apps that talk via NFC. In this talk, we'll explore the hardware and software of the series, from its obscure CPU architecture, to how it interacts with the outside world, from dumping OTP ROMs and breaking security, to making custom firmware. The Vital Bracelet series, active from 2021 to 2024, was a line of toys that revolved around a number of fitness bracelets that encouraged exercise by raising characters from the Digimon series, and expanding into tokusatsu and popular...
GPTDash – Der Reverse-Turing-Test (39c3)
KIs (bzw. LLMs) wirken immer menschlicher. Schon längst ist es schwer bis unmöglich zu erkennen, ob ein Text von einer KI oder einem Menschen geschrieben wurde. Maschinen dringen immer mehr in den menschlichen Diskurs ein. Wir wollen das nicht länger hinnehmen und drehen den Spieß um. In unserem Reverse-Turing-Test schlüpfen die Teilnehmenden in die Rolle einer KI und versuchen so robotisch-menschlich wie möglich zu klingen. In einer anschließenden Blindstudie prüfen wir, wer sich am besten unter KIs mischen und beim nächsten Robot Uprising die Spionin der Wahl wäre. Humor, Kreativität und ein Hang zu allgemeingültigen, nichtssagenden...