Reposted by Alex Stamosaustin @aparker.io · 25/09/2026i told opus to remix the pdoom video and take liberties 88115
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 20/08/2026This isn't a bad visual representation of the relationship between the various genres of AI and specific techniques. 3426
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 02/08/2026Also, Jesus willingly goes to his own death, it’s his entire plan! I never understood this bizarre fixation on responsibility for Jesus’ death, it’s him! “No man taketh it from me” John 10:18. If you believe in his divinity then you can’t say “It’s a real shame Jesus was martyred.” Thats the point. 1123
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 26/07/2026That's awfully kind of you. I'm doing a private talk on what we should all be doing post-Mythos/Huggingface that's a bit like that, although things move so fast now it's hard to be so sweeping in scope like in 2015. If it goes well I'll try to find a forum. I'm glad that somebody found it useful! 030
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 21/07/2026You should pre-order this book from real experts on building more trustworthy systems. 1114
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 04/07/2026You mean the Gooooooooooolllllllllllllllllll of the tournament? 130
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 02/07/2026static.klipy.comRanier Wolfcastle as McBain: That's The Joke!ALT: Ranier Wolfcastle as McBain: That's The Joke! 060
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 02/07/2026Was Hines v Stamos Cheryl Hines suing John Stamos over the long-awaited Full House/Curb Your Enthusiasm crossover? Nope, it was an attempt to suppress academic research into the organized manipulation of online platforms. After three years we finally won. But at great cost. 417443
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 30/06/2026Yeah, the TOS conditions are reminiscent of X going after researchers and are hopefully boilerplate that never gets enforced against academics. 000
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 30/06/2026The motivation is a mystery, it could have been distillation, the creation of a new private eval, competitive intelligence… the WIRED article tries to turn “typing bad words into an AI model is a scandal”. 130
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 30/06/2026There are a bunch of tech-rightists who continuously post about how WIRED used to be pro-tech and while I think it’s great that they are doing real journalism now I also think this article should have pointed out that this kind of safety testing is necessary in RL. 2143
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 30/06/2026This Wired article about Meta red-teaming the AI of others without their knowledge is mysterious but the subsequent BlueSky pearl clutching isn’t helpful. How do you think AI gets better? How will academics detect that AI isn’t safe? Through red teaming. www.wired.com/story/meta-c... 4191
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 30/06/2026This sounds like pretty standard model safety red teaming, but you usually don’t do that on competitors without their knowledge! They might have been distilling, creating a new safety eval, benchmarking themselves, creating competitive intelligence, or all the above. 1110
Reposted by Alex StamosTech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026"It's just vibes-based regulation." Alex Stamos spoke to Justin Hendrix about the White House yanking Anthropic's Fable with no written standard, no warning, and no procedural path back. He compares it to grounding a jet without telling Boeing why. It's sending the wrong message abroad, he says.buff.lyAlex Stamos on Why the US Should Lift Its Fable and Mythos Export BanStamos led an open letter calling on the Trump administration to reverse its export directive that forced Anthropic to remove access to its advanced models. 397
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 01/05/2026Confirmed to be the PRC. www.rightscon.org/rc26-stateme...rightscon.orgA statement to our community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in ZambiaOur official statement to the digital rights community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia 043
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 30/04/2026Yes, no good options, and an incredibly whiny community that will complain no matter what non-optimal choice they make. 020
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 30/04/2026Cancelling just as flights were taking off can't be accidental, this is a terrible blow to Access Now, which is known for this conference but does great work year-round serving as a bridge between marginalized communities and tech. I hope they can survive the financial hit. 2174
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 30/04/2026I would say that it would be best to find a stable, PRC-resistant country that would be flexible with visas to host permanently, like Costa Rica or Canada, but both countries dropped the ball in previous years. UN heavy countries like Switzerland and Austria are way too expensive. 4113
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 30/04/2026Well, it looks like the PRC paid for the conference center RightsCon was supposed to be hosted in. Guess they didn't appreciate last year's event in Taipei. zm.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/dsxxx/ds... 1219
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 22/04/2026I expect the thought process was that while they have had several hacks that they would consider tactical successes (ie a massive wipe of Stryker) their strategic goal of getting some level of deterrence has failed due to the lack of coverage, so they are trying ye ol’ “DDoS the socials”. 030
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 03/03/2026Good point, just complaining about the bicoastal insanity of the ACC might be a safe space. 020
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 03/03/2026Anyway, I appreciate @katestarbird.bsky.social doing a good writeup of the situation. katestarbird.substack.com/p/the-electi...katestarbird.substack.comThe Election Interference HypocrisyHow Trump is using Iran's past election interference to justify his own 020
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 03/03/2026Yeah. I wrote a long draft thread about our 2020 election research being used to justify this illegal war after the same academic work was held up as cEnSorShiP, but I deleted it instead of (gestures around). Post on X and have my kids threatened by Russian LLMs or face a BSky struggle session? Hmmm 140
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 03/03/2026I was recently asked why I don't post on BlueSky more. Well, if Jamelle Bouie isn't pure enough to survive here... 9303
Reposted by Alex StamosKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 28/02/2026OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations. 3838671257
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 29/01/2026The full URL shows up clean on VT, likely because they have Cloudflare's anti-bot protections turned on and it defeats all these security vendors fetching and analyzing, so they are only getting Cloudflare's Javascript and marking it clean. 1121
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 29/01/2026Here is the MSI it downloads: www.virustotal.com/gui/file/6f2...virustotal.comVirusTotalVirusTotal 180
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 29/01/2026Just don’t try to fetch it with curl or run it in a sandbox, CloudFlare will protect the malware authors from your evil bot! 190
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 29/01/2026Another day, another phishing site protected by @cloudflare.social. This one is totally ripping through my kids’ school. Thanks CloudFlare, for the useless reply to my abuse report! Toxs[.]digital for the threat hunters 24916
Reposted by Alex StamosLisa Laporte @lisalaporte.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Microsoft hands BitLocker keys to the government as @leolaporte.me, @stamos.org, @docrock.bsky.social, & @notpatrick.com discuss TikTok's privacy panic on TWiT, covering Europe's secret tech backups & Grok making millions of sexualized images! twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1068twit.tvThis Week in Tech: Toto's Electrostatic Chuck | TWiT.TVMicrosoft quietly hands over BitLocker keys to the government, TikTok’s new privacy terms spark a user panic, and Europe's secret tech backups reveal anxious prep for digital 042
Reposted by Alex StamosTWiT Tech Podcasts @twit.tv · 27/01/2026@leolaporte.me, @stamos.org, @docrock.bsky.social, and @notpatrick.com unpack privacy fears, encryption access, and digital resilience. Listen here:buff.lyThis Week in Tech: Toto's Electrostatic Chuck | TWiT.TVMicrosoft quietly hands over BitLocker keys to the government, TikTok’s new privacy terms spark a user panic, and Europe's secret tech backups reveal anxious prep for digital 051
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 14/01/2026We have, but @riana is the expert on this specific topic and has already been invoked by mentioning her one true name. 180
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 03/01/2026Welcome to the rathole, chat. (You will talk like this after watching) 010
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 02/01/2026I'm all for keeping California a competitive business environment, but I think we can let Seoul own 14 year-olds having their joints rebuilt for the benefit of billion-dollar corporations and the IG fanbase. 060
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 02/01/2026Watching the Katseye documentary with my daughter and my initial conclusions are: 1) Wow, these young ladies are talented and work hard 2) How has @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov not opened an investigation into HYBE for child work conditions? There are two orthopedic surgeries documented ON CAMERA. 230
Reposted by Alex StamosLisa Laporte @lisalaporte.bsky.social · 05/11/2025AI boosts productivity while arming adversaries as @leolaporte.me, @jilleduffy.bsky.social, @stamos.org, & @gigastacey.bsky.social discuss the coming wave of AI-fueled cyberattacks on This Week in Tech covering OpenAI's security researcher & the F5 hack! twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1056twit.tvThe Big Sleep | TWiT.TVFrom AI-powered code generation boosting productivity to adversaries using the same tools to hunt zero-days, the panel exposes the coming wave of AI-fueled cyberattacks—and 0122
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 03/11/2025Human bug finders at least had a reasonable speed limit placed on them. I think it’s reasonable to ask the Big Sleep team to try to get their model to also spin out patches if they are going to bury OSS teams under CVEs 130
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 03/11/2025I think there are a lot of things going on: 1) A long build up of frustration of ffmpeg being used by big companies without financial support 2) A history of anger at Google for their rigid 90 day policy (which will actually flex under circumstances) 3) The volume impact of AI 4) AI backlash 100
Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 03/11/2025I haven’t seen any outlets cover it yet. The arguments are happening on X, here is a discussion on HN news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4578...news.ycombinator.comFFmpeg dealing with a security researcher | Hacker News 210
Reposted by Alex StamosPatrick Gray @patrick.risky.biz · 21/10/2025I published a Wide World of Cyber edition today about the f5 incident with @stamos.org and @thekrebscycle.bsky.social No video for this episode… our video platform is AWS dependent 🤦♂️ risky.biz/WWC11/risky.bizWide World of Cyber: A deep dive on the f5 hack - Risky Business MediaIn this edition of the Wide World of Cyber podcast Patrick Gray talks to Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about the f5 incident. They talk abou [Read More] 0276
Reposted by Alex StamosPatrick Gray @patrick.risky.biz · 25/08/2025The Wide World of Cyber podcast is back, featuring @thekrebscycle.bsky.social, @stamos.org and yours truly! AUDIO: risky.biz/WWC10/ VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8B7...youtube.comWide World of Cyber: Microsoft's China EntanglementYouTube video by Risky Business Media 1183
