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Maybe it’s time to start running a local model with a browser extension to defend against this type of stuff. Remember how the TrueCrypt project shut down shor

Maybe it’s time to start running a local model with a browser extension to defend against this type of stuff. Remember how the TrueCrypt project shut down shortly before a join goverment/university paper was released about code stylometry? I guess LLMs will be employed as a defence against that type of thing.

mikestorrent 5mo ago
How does that defend against something having trained on a corpus of your own previous writing?
- H8crilA 5mo ago
  Exactly as much as closing your eyes and covering your ears.
- post-it 5mo ago
  I think what they're saying is, run a local model to transform all your comments before you post them.
  - CTDOCodebases 5mo ago
    Bingo. It can’t help with old writings but it can with new writings.
Barbing 5mo ago
I so want to reject the notion such a thing is acceptable, but… TrueCrypt, “replaced” by VeraCrypt which Internet people will claim is backdoored? I haven’t heard about stylometry paper. btw w/this idea would want to avoid typing into a comment field directly, since the session recorders would capture it (although that’s a different risk - same as our identifiable behavior patterns with our mouse etc.)
- CTDOCodebases 5mo ago
  > I so want to reject the notion such a thing is acceptable, but… Me too but it is the reality now. As someone who saw the birth of the internet and watched it grow into what it is today it is really quite sad. > TrueCrypt, “replaced” by VeraCrypt which Internet people will claim is backdoored? I haven’t heard about stylometry paper. Yes. TrueCrypt shut down in a very strange fashion. The software was functional and the authorities had tried to actively crack archives and failed. Then one day the project shuts down with a notice that TrueCrypt is "not secure as" Windows Bit-Locker which is and was a complete falsehood. TrueCrypt also passed independent security audits. Many believed the announcement to be a warrant canary. I've dropped some links below. > btw w/this idea would want to avoid typing into a comment field directly, since the session recorders would capture it (although that’s a different risk - same as our identifiable behavior patterns with our mouse etc.) You are 100% correct. It would probably be better implementing this idea as a virtual keyboard for better privacy. No doubt typing cadence is unique too and I have probably already been identified just by doing online typing tests. Mouse could be at least partially defended against using vimium style keyboard shortcuts. https://www.theregister.com/2010/06/28/brazil_banker_crypto_lock_out/ https://www.theregister.com/2010/06/28/brazil_banker_crypto_... https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/05/true-goodbye-using-truecrypt-is-not-secure/comment-page-3/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/05/true-goodbye-using-truec... https://oar.princeton.edu/handle/88435/pr1q24c https://oar.princeton.edu/handle/88435/pr1q24c

mikestorrent 5mo ago

How does that defend against something having trained on a corpus of your own previous writing?

H8crilA 5mo ago
Exactly as much as closing your eyes and covering your ears.
post-it 5mo ago
I think what they're saying is, run a local model to transform all your comments before you post them.
- CTDOCodebases 5mo ago
  Bingo. It can’t help with old writings but it can with new writings.

Barbing 5mo ago

I so want to reject the notion such a thing is acceptable, but… TrueCrypt, “replaced” by VeraCrypt which Internet people will claim is backdoored? I haven’t heard about stylometry paper. btw w/this idea would want to avoid typing into a comment field directly, since the session recorders would capture it (although that’s a different risk - same as our identifiable behavior patterns with our mouse etc.)

CTDOCodebases 5mo ago
> I so want to reject the notion such a thing is acceptable, but… Me too but it is the reality now. As someone who saw the birth of the internet and watched it grow into what it is today it is really quite sad. > TrueCrypt, “replaced” by VeraCrypt which Internet people will claim is backdoored? I haven’t heard about stylometry paper. Yes. TrueCrypt shut down in a very strange fashion. The software was functional and the authorities had tried to actively crack archives and failed. Then one day the project shuts down with a notice that TrueCrypt is "not secure as" Windows Bit-Locker which is and was a complete falsehood. TrueCrypt also passed independent security audits. Many believed the announcement to be a warrant canary. I've dropped some links below. > btw w/this idea would want to avoid typing into a comment field directly, since the session recorders would capture it (although that’s a different risk - same as our identifiable behavior patterns with our mouse etc.) You are 100% correct. It would probably be better implementing this idea as a virtual keyboard for better privacy. No doubt typing cadence is unique too and I have probably already been identified just by doing online typing tests. Mouse could be at least partially defended against using vimium style keyboard shortcuts. https://www.theregister.com/2010/06/28/brazil_banker_crypto_lock_out/ https://www.theregister.com/2010/06/28/brazil_banker_crypto_... https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/05/true-goodbye-using-truecrypt-is-not-secure/comment-page-3/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/05/true-goodbye-using-truec... https://oar.princeton.edu/handle/88435/pr1q24c https://oar.princeton.edu/handle/88435/pr1q24c