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Eric Davis
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We would have been better off with Odeo.

Senior VP for Special Projects at @istorg.bsky.social | Trust & Safety, Security, Privacy | ex-Google, Symantec, eBay | @ericdavis@mastodon.social
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✍️ Huge thanks to our authors @ericdavis.bsky.social, David Jay, Numa Dhamani, and Jen Weedon
July 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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istorg.bsky.social
Global cyber crime syndicates are running “pig butchering” scams, where scammers build relationships with targets to demand money. IST’s @ericdavis.bsky.social & Gabrielle Tran spoke to @technologyreview.com about AI's impact on fraud & potential interventions.
🔐 Read the article: bit.ly/42GPPan
Inside a romance scam compound—and how people get tricked into being there
Survivors reveal how criminal syndicates use Big Tech to recruit and trap people into operating “pig butchering” scams—and then use the same platforms to steal billions of dollars from targets all ove...
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May 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
ericdavis.bsky.social
The @cursor.com.web.brid.gy integration of Gemini apparently favors self-flagellation over failing gracefully. I've never seen an AI Assistant in IDE give up on problems and spiral like a house elf. I'm curious if others have encountered this.
@jeffdean.bsky.social, is this known behavior?
June 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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@disneyplustr.bsky.social Either there's a content management bug or you're taking a pretty dark turn creatively
December 7, 2024 at 2:06 AM
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Hurry Turkeys Hurry Hurry Hurry
November 27, 2024 at 1:50 AM
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"Oh God, it's Mom": With many divided families getting together for Thanksgiving, a look back at the most famous call on C-SPAN's Washington Journal www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q15x...
"Oh God, it's Mom." (C-SPAN)
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November 24, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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istorg.bsky.social
🚨NEW from IST: Tech revolutionizes the way we live. But insecure, negligent, or exploitative advancements can threaten global security & stability. #TechnologISTTalks is dedicated to bringing conversations on these risks & opportunities to the forefront.
🎙️Episode 1: technologist-talks.simplecast.com
November 14, 2024 at 10:06 PM
ericdavis.bsky.social
False Positive
November 14, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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The new Block Party from @triketora.bsky.social is one of the most-useful tools for digital life I've seen in years. I was way more exposed online than I realized. My review @washingtonpost.com: wapo.st/4efIdOD
Column | You’re overexposed online. This service fixes 223 privacy settings for you.
There’s a simple and effective new way to deep clean your privacy and security on Facebook, Google, X and more, from a startup called Block Party.
wapo.st
November 3, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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katestarbird.bsky.social
Hot off the presses: our team's analysis of several prominent rumors spreading on social media over the last few days about voting and election administration: uwcip.substack.com/p/rapid-rese...
Rapid Research Memo October 31: Rumors of voter intimidation at the polls, non-citizens voting, and ABC “preemptively” declaring Harris the victor in Pennsylvania
Weekly Memo
uwcip.substack.com
October 31, 2024 at 8:32 PM
ericdavis.bsky.social
If you're at #Trustcon, I hope you can make our panel today at 1:30pm, "2024 Elections and AI Case Studies: Beware the Six-Fingered Man." Here's a preview of our discussion.
securityandtechnology.org/blog/2024-el...
2024 Elections and AI Case Studies: Beware the Six-Fingered Man
Just as the character Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride searched for the sixth finger as a telltale sign of the villain he sought to vanquish, deepfake images used to be easily distinguishable by th...
securityandtechnology.org
July 24, 2024 at 8:17 PM
ericdavis.bsky.social
True believers — give me a shout if you're here at the Trust & Safety Research Conference. It would be great to catch up in person instead of via that internet silliness people keep taking about

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September 29, 2023 at 12:56 AM
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Some purple prose in honor of National Dog Day
Gentlemen of the jury: The best friend a man has in this world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has, he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it the most. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog. Gentlemen of the jury: A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the
August 28, 2023 at 4:37 AM
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True believers, if you're at Defcon I hope you can join my fellow panelists and me for two great Elections Integrity sessions, Saturday at 1:30 and 2:30 at the Voting Village

info.defcon.org/event/?id=52616
info.defcon.org/event/?id=52614
August 12, 2023 at 6:34 AM
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Congrats to @rightsduff.bsky.social and the team for this concrete and *actionable* report. So glad to have participated in this initiative.
June 21, 2023 at 11:38 PM
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"Vegas, baby"
June 11, 2023 at 5:55 PM
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By the most important standard — the capacity to write a reasonably humorous episode of Rick and Morty — chatgpt-4 is a big leap forward. It even came up with the phrase "quantum paradox resolver," which Google could locate on just a single page across the interwebs.
Title: "Rick and Morty and the Quantum Paradox" INT. RICK'S GARAGE - MORNING RICK is hunched over his workbench, tinkering with a strange device. MORTY enters, rubbing sleep from his eyes. MORTY: What are you up to, Rick? RICK: (not looking up) Just working on a quantum paradox resolver, Morty. MORTY: A what? RICK sighs, rolls his eyes, and holds up the device. RICK: It's a device that resolves quantum paradoxes, Morty. You know, like Schrödinger's cat? MORTY: Oh, the cat that's both dead and alive? RICK: (smirking) That's the one, Morty. Except in this case, it's Schrödinger's Jerry. MORTY: What?! Cut to JERRY, in the living room, unknowingly sitting in a box labeled "Quantum Paradox Resolver". INT. LIVING ROOM - CONTINUOUS BETH enters, sees JERRY in the box. BETH: Jerry, why are you sitting in a box? JERRY: (shrugs) It's surprisingly comfortable, Beth. Back in the garage, RICK flips a switch on the device. Suddenly, two JERRYS appear in the box - one alive and well, t MORTY: (horrified) Rick, you just killed my dad! RICK: (rolls eyes) Relax, Morty. He's also alive. It's a paradox, remember? Back in the living room, the dead JERRY suddenly springs to life. DEAD JERRY: (confused) Why am I in a box? BETH faints. INT. GARAGE - CONTINUOUS RICK and MORTY rush into the living room to see the two JERRYS and the unconscious BETH. RICK: (to the Jerrys) Alright, one of you needs to get back in the box. Both JERRYS look at each other, then bolt in opposite directions. RICK: (sighs) Morty, grab a tranquilizer gun. We've got some paradox resolving to do. As they chase the JERRYS around the house, the screen fades to black.RICK and MORTY are chasing the two JERRYS around the house. BETH regains consciousness and looks around, confused. BETH: (to herself) I need a drink. She heads to the kitchen, stepping over the tranquilizer guns and quantum paradox resolver box. INT. KITCHEN - CONTINUOUS BETH pours herself a glass of wine, then notices something st There are now dozens of JERRYS, all running around and panicking. BETH: (sighs) I'm going to need a bigger glass. INT. LIVING ROOM - CONTINUOUS RICK and MORTY are still chasing the original two JERRYS. RICK: (frustrated) Morty, I told you to grab the tranquilizer guns! MORTY: (panting) I'm trying, Rick! They finally corner one of the JERRYS. RICK: (to Jerry) Alright, back in the box. JERRY reluctantly climbs back into the box. RICK flips a switch on the device, and the extra JERRYS disappear. RICK: (sighs) Finally. They turn around to see BETH standing there, holding a bottle of wine. BETH: (sarcastically) Thanks for the help, guys. RICK: (shrugs) Anytime, Beth. BETH rolls her eyes and walks away. RICK and MORTY look at each other, then burst out laughing. RICK: (still laughing) Oh, Morty, the look on her face! MORTY: (grinning) Yeah, that was pretty good, Rick. They high-five, then head back to the garage, leaving the box (and JERRY) behind. TO BE CONTINUED...
May 26, 2023 at 5:19 AM