Decoding trust
Encryption + Trust & Safety reading list (updated 2026-05-20)
FR#150 – On ICE, Verification, and Presence As Harm
Bluesky built a verification system designed to distribute trust, and then didn't use it when it mattered.
Why Should I Trust You?
News Commentary Podcast · Updated Weekly · Bold, unfiltered, and uncompromisingly honest, Why Should I Trust You? is a weekly podcast that looks at the breakdown in trust for science and public health. It drops every Thursday, with occasional…
Announcing the Centre for Cryptographic Trust Infrastructure
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Trusted Computing FAQ TC / TCG / LaGrande / NGSCB / Longhorn / Palladium
Trusted Computing FAQ
Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
One of eMudhra's certificate authority private keys is the number 4. Not a number that starts with 4, or the number 4 followed by a few hundred random digits, just, 4... Another one is 56, and another is 115. I know, because I recovered all of them from their
Pushback on use of hidden prompts to snare AI peer reviews
The invisible messages, which instruct LLMs to use telltale phrases in a peer-review report, catch AI misuse but also erode trust, some say.
AT Protocol, Part 2: Explanation For Non-Techies - Debbie's Blatherings - by Debbie Ridpath Ohi
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How a Poisoned Security Scanner Became the Key to Backdooring LiteLLM | Snyk
On March 24, 2026, threat actor known as TeamPCP published backdoored versions of the litellm Python package after stealing PyPI credentials via a compromised Trivy GitHub Action in LiteLLM's CI/CD pipeline. Here's what happened, how the three-stage malware works, and how to check if you're affected.
This is an absolutely astounding press release from eMudhra. No apology, a suggestion that the researcher who found their private keys must have used AI, and an attempt to shift blame to auditors... wow. emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-stat…
eMudhra Statement on distrust of select Global TLS Intermediate and one Root CA
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