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Ian Miers

@secparam.bsky.social

UMD CS Prof. Security and applied cryptography.

Ian Miers @secparam.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Some "AI" on my phone is reading inbound Signal messages. I left predictive typing on, trading a little of my privacy for convenience. Yet something is giving responses using what others wrote in chats with disappearing messages, persisting or sharing them who knows where. Not a good default, Google

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Ian Miers @secparam.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

We've crossed a threshold. A paid subscription used to be the ultimate proof of humanity online, now its not enough to allow a single link click inside the NYT cooking app. The next few years are going to be an interesting race to extract more and more invasive proofs of humanity.

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Ian Miers @secparam.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Making LLM chats private is a good idea. We've accepted too much data harvesting already—this moment lets us reset the norm around who controls our data online. But let's go further: put LLM chats in private compute, so you get technical guarantees you control your data. x.com/sama/status/...

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Ian Miers @secparam.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Classic Google: an A/B test (a rare overt one) Classic Google AI: it doesn't actually work (you can't submit)

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Ian Miers @secparam.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Incidentally, if your Signal is now flooded with work chats, you can organize chats into folders Settings->Chats->Chat Folders. Looks like its Android only for now.

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Ian Miers @secparam.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

@meredithmeredith.bsky.social points out the real story with Apple disabling encrypted backup (and therefore effectively iMessage encryption) in the UK. The UK is demanding a global backdoor for all data, including Americans. Apple is resisting as best they can.

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