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Plus ça change, plus c’est l’ASCII: Why Internationalised Domain Names Still Don’t Quite Work
Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs), should have made the internet feel more human. The premise is simple: people should be able to use domain names in their own languages/scripts. Names with accents, Greek letters, Cyrillic, Arabic, Devanagari, Chinese, Thai, Hebrew, and the rest of the writing systems humans actually use. Images in this article are generated…
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Strong Ciphers, Weak Assumptions
The best laid plans of mice and men… A lot of attention has been paid to the design and implementation of messaging apps. Signal usually comes out as being considered the most trustworthy of the bunch by people who worry about detail, but there are other apps with real end-to-end encryption too. Of course, subverting…
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Two Names, One Career: Why You’ll See Me as Both Sophie and Robert
In a professional world that prizes consistency, it might feel unusual to come across the same person under two names, unless they happen to be working undercover or as a spy, that is! 🕵🏻♀️🥸 I work in cyber security — assessing and auditing systems & processes across government, policing, and nuclear domains. It’s fascinating and…
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Strange DeepSeek Output
Or should I say more strange DeepSeek output, since I’ve already captured it telling me that it is effectively necessary to dismantle the Chinese political system here. Whilst challenging its disappearing messages, DeepSeek denied that what I had seen was possible. I offered to play it the video of it happening, and DeepSeek came up…
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Peeling the Censorship Onion
Lots of people have been having fun with DeepSeek, a fascinating new AI from China. Whilst many have been probing its censorship – try asking about Tianamen Square 1989, some have been managing to bypass its output filters by requesting the output in forms such as like leetspeak or similar encodings. Input and output filtering…
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