Silence Of Secrets

Presented by Ari Trachtenberg.

Abstract

Side-channels and covert-channels are all around us, the silent leakers of secret information that arise out of the normal usage of our technologies. This talk will describe some fun channels from hardware, operating systems, software, networks, and LLMs … towards answering the ultimate question of which is a greater threat to humanity: Artificial General Intelligence or its engineers.

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