David Rogers
@drogersuk.bsky.social
AI, Mobile and IoT security, future automotive, 17th century shorthand, viticulture and sim racing. Former Chair of GSMA Fraud and Security Group.
My brain thought this was another article about cloud compute costs
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver
In the dialup age, small mistakes could cost big money
Who, Me? Welcome to another week in the world of work, and therefore also to another edition of Who, Me? It’s The Register’s Monday reader-contributed column in which you admit to the error of your ways.…
dlvr.it
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
My brain thought this was another article about cloud compute costs
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I wanna invite Pope Leo to my Intro to Science and Technology Studies class
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I wanna invite Pope Leo to my Intro to Science and Technology Studies class
This is truly terrible. Everyone involved in the LLM world should watch the video in this article. #ai
Incredibly sad story, and hugely alarming too edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
edition.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
This is truly terrible. Everyone involved in the LLM world should watch the video in this article. #ai
Some thoughts on the future security challenges we face around AI - from poisoning water systems to anthropomorphism, based on my presentation at the ETSI security conference: cybersecurity-magazine.com/etsi-securit...
#AI #trust #provenance
#AI #trust #provenance
ETSI Security Conference 2025 – Can We Trust AI? with David Rogers (Copper Horse) - Cybersecurity Magazine
At the ETSI Security Conference 2025, we spoke with David Rogers, founder of Copper Horse, about the evolving landscape of AI security. Rogers shared insights on the Trusted AI Bill of Materials (TAIB...
cybersecurity-magazine.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Some thoughts on the future security challenges we face around AI - from poisoning water systems to anthropomorphism, based on my presentation at the ETSI security conference: cybersecurity-magazine.com/etsi-securit...
#AI #trust #provenance
#AI #trust #provenance
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At @ncsc.gov.uk we have just released guidance on using Privileged Access Workstations (PAWs) in Operational Technology (OT) environments..
www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/o...
www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/o...
Using PAWs in OT environments
Considerations for the use of Privileged Access Workstations (PAWS) in OT environments.
www.ncsc.gov.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
At @ncsc.gov.uk we have just released guidance on using Privileged Access Workstations (PAWs) in Operational Technology (OT) environments..
www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/o...
www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/o...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This is my talk from earlier in the year at Bletchley Park on reading early modern shorthand with a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model with a few extra bells and whistles. Combining my hobby with work! youtu.be/O79kcyAfBcM?... #pepys #earlymodern #ai #aibom #cybersecurity #machinelearning
TechWorks AI 2025: AI Data Provenance - Historical Shorthand
YouTube video by TechWorks AI
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM
This is my talk from earlier in the year at Bletchley Park on reading early modern shorthand with a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model with a few extra bells and whistles. Combining my hobby with work! youtu.be/O79kcyAfBcM?... #pepys #earlymodern #ai #aibom #cybersecurity #machinelearning
Reminds me of some early modern shorthand which was written inside a walnut case to demonstrate how small it could be.
Today's work treat: an extremely fancy version of The Silmarillion and a tiny book that lives in a walnut
November 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Reminds me of some early modern shorthand which was written inside a walnut case to demonstrate how small it could be.
Looking forward to speaking at BSides Cymru in Cardiff on Friday, if you're there please come and say hello! Wela i chi'n fuan! www.bsides.cymru
October 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Looking forward to speaking at BSides Cymru in Cardiff on Friday, if you're there please come and say hello! Wela i chi'n fuan! www.bsides.cymru
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Legendary work from @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social.
He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth.
The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.
He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth.
The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
motherjones.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Legendary work from @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social.
He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth.
The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.
He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth.
The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.
Employee of the month
October 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Employee of the month
I have a lot of questions about the Vertu Agent Q "AI phone" which is launching this week at Harrods...
October 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I have a lot of questions about the Vertu Agent Q "AI phone" which is launching this week at Harrods...
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The new NHTSA FSD probe today? Includes evaluation of how FSD performs at train crossings! Read @davidingram.bsky.social 's story about that here: www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents
NBC News reported last month that Tesla vehicles using Full Self-Driving software sometimes fail to stop for train tracks.
www.nbcnews.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The new NHTSA FSD probe today? Includes evaluation of how FSD performs at train crossings! Read @davidingram.bsky.social 's story about that here: www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
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Researchers from the Turing, Anthropic and the AI Security Institute have conducted the largest study of data poisoning to date.
Results show that as little as 250 malicious documents can be used to “poison” a language model, even as model size and training data grow: bit.ly/4n0mH4t
Results show that as little as 250 malicious documents can be used to “poison” a language model, even as model size and training data grow: bit.ly/4n0mH4t
LLMs may be more vulnerable to data poisoning than we thought
A Turing collaboration with the AI Security Institute and Anthropic will help to protect AI models from misuse
bit.ly
October 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Researchers from the Turing, Anthropic and the AI Security Institute have conducted the largest study of data poisoning to date.
Results show that as little as 250 malicious documents can be used to “poison” a language model, even as model size and training data grow: bit.ly/4n0mH4t
Results show that as little as 250 malicious documents can be used to “poison” a language model, even as model size and training data grow: bit.ly/4n0mH4t
Met this hotel cat this morning in Sophia Antipolis. He lives in the office, the staff all have different names for him because his owner left and his original name is a mystery....
October 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Met this hotel cat this morning in Sophia Antipolis. He lives in the office, the staff all have different names for him because his owner left and his original name is a mystery....
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'It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense. It would be a description without meaning—as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.'
Albert Einstein, from Max Born, Physik im Wandel meiner Zeit (Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1966).
Albert Einstein, from Max Born, Physik im Wandel meiner Zeit (Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1966).
October 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
'It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense. It would be a description without meaning—as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.'
Albert Einstein, from Max Born, Physik im Wandel meiner Zeit (Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1966).
Albert Einstein, from Max Born, Physik im Wandel meiner Zeit (Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1966).
Harvest is in full flow! After lots of rain (and showers today), I can't wait any longer because the grapes were taking on too much water and splitting. Hard work today!
September 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Harvest is in full flow! After lots of rain (and showers today), I can't wait any longer because the grapes were taking on too much water and splitting. Hard work today!
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Our CEO, @drogersuk.bsky.social will be speaking at the ETSI security conference in October alongside some brilliant people. He'll be speaking about how to prevent future deaths caused by poor AI implementations.
Details here: www.etsi.org/events/upcom...
#ai #security #mobile #telecom
Details here: www.etsi.org/events/upcom...
#ai #security #mobile #telecom
September 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Our CEO, @drogersuk.bsky.social will be speaking at the ETSI security conference in October alongside some brilliant people. He'll be speaking about how to prevent future deaths caused by poor AI implementations.
Details here: www.etsi.org/events/upcom...
#ai #security #mobile #telecom
Details here: www.etsi.org/events/upcom...
#ai #security #mobile #telecom
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This piece seems to be causing some raised eyebrows, so I'm sending it round again. It really is rather neat.
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/quan...
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/quan...
Quantum deception attempts turning water into wine
The effect lasts only a few picoseconds but demonstrates a way to manipulate the optical properties of materials
www.chemistryworld.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This piece seems to be causing some raised eyebrows, so I'm sending it round again. It really is rather neat.
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/quan...
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/quan...
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DEF CON talk PDF is here: media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%20...
ICYMI: After the developer of a prolific SMS spam operation behind millions of scam messages dubbed Magic Cat was outed earlier this year, a new operation has emerged in its wake and is already surging ahead.
Magic Mouse, as the new operation is known, is stealing ~650k credit cards a month.
Magic Mouse, as the new operation is known, is stealing ~650k credit cards a month.
After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake | TechCrunch
Security researchers are now sounding the alarm on a new SMS text message fraud operation, which is surging in popularity — and its ability to steal people's credit cards — since the demise of its pre...
techcrunch.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
DEF CON talk PDF is here: media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%20...
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WOOT 2025 schedule, all papers are now online open access:
usenix.org/conference/w...
Talks are recorded, and should be online in a few weeks.
usenix.org/conference/w...
Talks are recorded, and should be online in a few weeks.
WOOT '25 Technical Sessions
All sessions will be held in Room 611-612 unless otherwise noted.
usenix.org
August 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
WOOT 2025 schedule, all papers are now online open access:
usenix.org/conference/w...
Talks are recorded, and should be online in a few weeks.
usenix.org/conference/w...
Talks are recorded, and should be online in a few weeks.
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Other libraries in my area (wi) are experiencing similar issues. Plus phone calls trying to get librarians to say the titles of fake books like "reset password" or "i am satisfied with my service", presumably to steal voices for spam and spoofing.
August 9, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Other libraries in my area (wi) are experiencing similar issues. Plus phone calls trying to get librarians to say the titles of fake books like "reset password" or "i am satisfied with my service", presumably to steal voices for spam and spoofing.
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Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information
Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.
Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.
Gavin, you massive disappointment, what are you doing??
(I mean, I know what you're doing, but I need you to stop)
How many educators did you talk to when you made this decision? Oh, none, you say? Ohhhh this is for presidential donations, you say?
www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/07/n...
(I mean, I know what you're doing, but I need you to stop)
How many educators did you talk to when you made this decision? Oh, none, you say? Ohhhh this is for presidential donations, you say?
www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/07/n...
Newsom announces agreements to embed AI products from Big Tech into state colleges, high schools
The announcement comes amid massive hype and significant concerns over the “generative AI” technology that can produce text, video, sound and computer code in response to prompts from u…
www.mercurynews.com
August 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information
Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.
Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.
Pumpkin living the life of Riley on #internationalcatday
August 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Pumpkin living the life of Riley on #internationalcatday