PrivacyRaven: Implementing a proof of concept for model inversionOriginally published August 3, 2021 During my Trail of Bits winternship and springternship, I had the pleasure of working with Suha Hussain and Jim Miller on PrivacyRaven, a Python-based tool for testing deep-learning frameworks against a plethora of privacy attacks. I worked on improving PrivacyRaven’s versatility by adding compatibility for services […]
PrivacyRaven Has Left the NestIf you work on deep learning systems, check out our new tool, PrivacyRaven—it’s a Python library that equips engineers and researchers with a comprehensive testing suite for simulating privacy attacks on deep learning systems. Because deep learning enables software to perform tasks without explicit programming, it’s become ubiquitous in […]
Introducing iVerify, the security toolkit for iPhone users“If privacy matters, it should matter to the phone your life is on.” So says Apple in their recent ads about Privacy on the iPhone and controlling the data you share—but many of the security features they highlight are opt-in, and users often don’t know when or how to activate them. But hey… we got […]
Meet Algo, the VPN that worksI think you’ll agree when I say: there’s no VPN option on the market designed with equal emphasis on security and ease of use. That changes now. Today we’re introducing Algo, a self-hosted personal VPN server designed for ease of deployment and security. Algo automatically deploys an on-demand VPN service in the cloud that is not […]
Why I didn’t catch any Pokemon todaytl;dr While the internet went crazy today, we went fact finding. Here are our notes on Pokemon Go’s permissions to your Google account. Here’s what Jay and I set out to do at around 6pm today: Find what permissions Pokemon Go is actually requesting Investigate what the permissions actually do Replicate the permissions in a test app […]
Tidas: a new service for building password-less appsFor most mobile app developers, password management has as much appeal as a visit to the dentist. You do it because you have to, but it is annoying and easy to screw up, even when using standard libraries or protocols like OAUTH. Your users feel the same way. Even if they know to use strong […]
Hacking for Charity: Automated Bug-finding in LibOTRAt the end of last year, we had some free time to explore new and interesting uses of the automated bug-finding technology we developed for the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge. While the rest of the competitors are quietly preparing for the CGC Final Event, we can entertain you with tales of running our bug-finding tools […]
Let’s Encrypt the InternetWe’re excited to announce our financial support for Let’s Encrypt, the open, automated and free SSL Certificate Authority (CA) that went into public beta on December 3. With so much room for improvement in the CA space, Let’s Encrypt offers a refreshing, promising vision of encrypting the web. Expensive SSL certificates are holding back Internet […]
Self-Hosted Video Chat with TuberToday, we’re releasing the source code to our self-hosted video chat platform, Tuber Time Communications (or just “Tuber”). We’ve been using Tuber for private video calls with up to 15 members of our team over the last year or two. We want you to use it, protect your privacy, and help us make it better. […]
