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Attack here is a term specific to cryptography and infosec, it does not imply doing anything illegal or violent. "Oracle attack" is the more specific term where
by imjonse 3y ago
Attack here is a term specific to cryptography and infosec, it does not imply doing anything illegal or violent. "Oracle attack" is the more specific term where you probe a system to give up some of its internals it was not meant to expose.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoWording matters. To use LLM terminology, "attack" here may mean something neutral, but it's helluva closer to "fear" and "malice" and "evil" in the latent space than terms like "probing", "studying", "examining", or "reverse engineering". FWIW, cryptography and infosec as fields get a good mileage out of exploiting fear.
- imjonse 3y agoThat is only true in everyday latent space/vocabulary. In the ones underlying arxiv papers, cryptography and LLM, attack has the latter meaning.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoPerhaps, but everyday vocabulary is what public policy and law discussions happen in, and I think that's what 'userbinator is worried about (and so am I). See also: "piracy is stealing" or the everyday vocabulary meaning of the word "hacker".