Episode 108 - Jav And His Magnificent Pudenda

<p><strong>This Week in InfoSec (08:56)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>17th June 1997: Hackers deciphered computer code written in the Data Encryption Standard (DES), which had been designed to be an impenetrable encryption software. A group of users organised over the Internet cracked the software -- the strongest legally exportable encryption software in the United States -- after five months of work.  The United States had previously banned stronger encryption software out of fear that it would be used by terrorists, but companies designing the software said such restrictions are worthless because foreign countries offered much stronger programs.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESCHALL_Project">DESCHALL</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (17:32)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/13/23165535/google-suspends-ai-artificial-intelligence-engineer-sentient">Google suspends engineer who claims its AI is sentient</a></p><p>Google has placed one of its engineers on paid administrative leave for allegedly breaking its confidentiality policies after he grew concerned that an AI chatbot system had achieved sentience, the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/">Washington Post reports</a>. The engineer, Blake Lemoine, works for Google’s Responsible AI organization, and was testing whether its LaMDA model generates discriminatory language or hate speech.</p><p>The engineer’s concerns reportedly grew out of convincing responses he saw the AI system generating about its rights and the ethics of robotics. In April he shared a document with executives titled “<a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22058315/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview.pdf">Is LaMDA Sentient?</a>” containing a transcript of his conversations with the AI (after being placed on leave, Lemoine published the transcript <a href="https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-i