Chris B
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Chris B
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Currently: Edge Security @ MSFT
Previously: Chrome Security @ Google
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you mean i can just publish anything to the web without some random gatekeeper (apple, google) telling me what to do? that's crazy
November 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Sound guidance. There's a nice parallel to Chrome's Rule of Two for memory safety.
If you use "AI agents" (LLMs calling tools in a loop) you need to be aware of the Lethal Trifecta

Combine access to private data, exposure to untrusted content and the ability to externally communicate and an attacker can trick the system into stealing your data simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/...
The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication
If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them “AI agents” if you like) it is critically important that you understand the risk of …
simonwillison.net
June 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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These are real images of exoplanets.

Four super-Jupiters, imaged 10 times over 12 years around a star 133 lightyears away.

These are real, giant worlds, out there in the dark.

And we can see them.
May 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you decide not to pay for a service, then you should not expect to get that service.
March 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Pressure is privilege
December 29, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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One way that social media > IRL social interaction is that you can share your thoughts about something, immediately see them in textual form, and go, “hey, that’s seems like an info leak from anxiety.log from that encrypted file in your brain. Maybe you should check that.” And then delete skeet.
November 26, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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It is always amusing to see hot takes about theoretic ideal covert action scenarios for coup d’etat, emerging from academics who would be hard pressed to seize and hold a faculty lounge let alone the instruments of modern command & control, communication, & compute at a national level
December 3, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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every so often i go outside and i’m like huh. this is actually pretty good
November 30, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Post a pic you took to add some calm to the timeline.
November 29, 2024 at 6:24 AM