Glenn Chisholm

An information security person who speaks infrequently on this channel. When I do, I speak only for myself and not my employer

[Glenn Chisholm @glennchisholm]

@halvarflake In your 40’s it’s the worst.

[Glenn Chisholm @glennchisholm]

@Yuchenj_UW The browser has been the operating system for five years, the average user has little interaction with their computer outside that container.

[thaddeus e. grugq @thegrugq]

Signal’s encryption is irrelevant to the discussion. The real problem with sharing Top Secret data over Signal is not the security of the app, it’s the security of the phone. And mobile phones are not secure against state level threat actors.

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming.
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[Glenn Chisholm @glennchisholm]

@saranormous Did not know the score went that high. I assumed that was a myth.

[martin_casado @martin_casado]

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[Dr. Parik Patel, BA, CFA, ACCA Esq. @ParikPatelCFA]

The CEO of Google is Indian
The CEO of Microsoft is Indian
The CEO of Adobe is Indian
The CEO of IBM is Indian
The CEO of Chanel is Indian
The CEO of FedEx is Indian
The CEO of Palo Alto Networks is Indian
The CEO of Perplexity is Indian

So yes. Indians are “high skilled immigrants”.

[Ross Tate @rossetate]

As the author of this PDF, it's been interesting seeing people guess at the rationale behind its design. However, the rationale had nothing to do with theory vs practice, and everything to do with pragmatically coping with an unaccommodated disability in academia. (1/16)

[Prof. Anima Anandkumar @AnimaAnandkumar]

Unfortunately, SB 1047 has passed the vote despite many AI experts like @drfeifei @ylecun and myself writing detailed articles on how fundamentally flawed it is. @GavinNewsom Please read our letter signed by @Caltech personnel, alumni, and others and veto this. https://t.co/oDGU38lJlm
@Scott_Wiener wasted valuable time that could have been instead devoted to solving numerous problems that CA residents are actually facing instead of listening to AI doomers.

[Glenn Chisholm @glennchisholm]

@halvarflake I feel judged by this statement. Now too scared to have a drink with you :-)

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

The Doomer's Delusion:
1. AI is likely to kill us all
2. Hence AI must be monopolized by a small number of companies under tight regulatory control.
3. Hence AI systems must have a remote kill switch.
4. Hence foundation model builders must be eternally liable for bad uses of their models and derived versions of it.
5. Hence open source AI must be banned.
6. But open source is popular, so we're just going to say that we are pro open source but also say we need some sort of regulatory agency to oversee it.
7. We're going to scare the hell out of the public and their representatives with prophecies of doom.
8. But we'll make sure to appear much more respectable than the most extreme doomers.
9. To look even more respectable, we'll create a one-person institute to promote AI safety.
10. We'll get insane levels of funding from well-intentioned but clueless billionaires who are scared sh*tless of catastrophe scenarios, got too rich too quickly, have too much time on their hands, but should know better.
11. We'll claim that the majority of prominent scientists agree with us, even though said scientists are an infinitesimal minority in the AI community.

[martin_casado @martin_casado]

Let’s talk about what is true:
- you’ve cherry picked two Canadian academics to back the bill who are not accountable to it, and not representative of consensus view
- you’ve aligned with a fringe group who is primarily concerned with science fiction AI risks
- you’ve met with an summarily ignored multiple California academics, founders, and investors

And the net is you’re going to hurt California research, and innovation. And you’re giving a hand out to big tech.

[Glenn Chisholm @glennchisholm]

@halvarflake https://t.co/InPaegpdXd

https://t.co/NeboWK9wn3

[Halvar Flake @halvarflake]

If people are worried about vulnerabilities inside Signal, how about donating money or code to try to move complex media processing (images, video, voip) into a separate process that can be SECCOMP_STRICT sandboxed?

[Glenn Chisholm @glennchisholm]

@halvarflake It was a GE originated system, so ask them if they want to replicate the capital destruction of GE. It is an incredibly lazy system, repeatedly implemented by mediocre leaders.

[Greylock Partners @GreylockVC]

We are shocked and deeply saddened by the heinous acts of terror committed against the Israeli people. Our hearts are with the victims and their families. We stand in solidarity with Israel and our friends, founders, and teams in the country.

[Lawrence H. Summers @LHSummers]

The delayed @Harvard leadership statement fails to meet the needs of the moment. Why can’t we find anything approaching the moral clarity of Harvard statements after George Floyd's death or Russia's invasion of Ukraine when terrorists kill, rape and take hostage hundreds of Israelis attending a music festival?

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

This was the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) rally in New York. The crowds laughed and cheered when the speaker referenced the young Israelis massacred at a music festival.

I’ll take this opportunity to remind you that DSA members include Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar.

[Glenn Chisholm @glennchisholm]

Generally pretty hard to make me sad to be Australian, but these knuckle dragging muppets achieved it.

[BNO News @BNONews]

WATCH: Crowds chanting "gas the Jews" in Sydney, Australia. Police are investigating

[Australian Jewish Association @AustralianJA]

AJA has received reports that multiple Greens councillors walked out of a minute of silence for the victims.

Woollahra Council

Evil dwells amongst us.