Jade
@jade.packet.science
they/she
PhD Student @cs.umass.edu
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies && Internet Censorship
Website: https://packet.science/
PhD Student @cs.umass.edu
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies && Internet Censorship
Website: https://packet.science/
Very hopeful for the Harvard grade inflation stuff to gain traction. The vast majority of undergraduates use LLMs heavily. There are two major paths available to universities IMO.
November 2, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Very hopeful for the Harvard grade inflation stuff to gain traction. The vast majority of undergraduates use LLMs heavily. There are two major paths available to universities IMO.
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Why are experts warning against the development of superintelligence?
In a new video we partnered with SciShow on, Hank Green explains the concerning trends we see in AI.
SciShow has over 8M subscribers. It's great to see so many people learn about this problem!
[link below]
In a new video we partnered with SciShow on, Hank Green explains the concerning trends we see in AI.
SciShow has over 8M subscribers. It's great to see so many people learn about this problem!
[link below]
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Why are experts warning against the development of superintelligence?
In a new video we partnered with SciShow on, Hank Green explains the concerning trends we see in AI.
SciShow has over 8M subscribers. It's great to see so many people learn about this problem!
[link below]
In a new video we partnered with SciShow on, Hank Green explains the concerning trends we see in AI.
SciShow has over 8M subscribers. It's great to see so many people learn about this problem!
[link below]
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Great article about how TEEs are providing much less security than folks believe they will. arstechnica.com/security/202...
New physical attacks are quickly diluting secure enclave defenses from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel
On-chip TEEs withstand rooted OSes but fall instantly to cheap physical attacks.
arstechnica.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Great article about how TEEs are providing much less security than folks believe they will. arstechnica.com/security/202...
Politics over who gets the good offices/cubicles are honestly kinda fun. I sort of wish those were the only politics I had to worry about.
October 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Politics over who gets the good offices/cubicles are honestly kinda fun. I sort of wish those were the only politics I had to worry about.
I've been spending a lot of time with the Geedge Networks leak, and I can't shake the idea that the name is vaguely Dutch.
Vergeef mij, Fang Binxing, want ik heb geedged!
Vergeef mij, Fang Binxing, want ik heb geedged!
October 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I've been spending a lot of time with the Geedge Networks leak, and I can't shake the idea that the name is vaguely Dutch.
Vergeef mij, Fang Binxing, want ik heb geedged!
Vergeef mij, Fang Binxing, want ik heb geedged!
Can we have a law called the "if you vote no on this bill you love kicking puppies act" that bans congresspeople from picking these ridiculous and deceptive names?
#SaveSpeech
the 'STOP CSAM Act of 2025' [S.1829] is currently estimated to be 56% likely to pass according to Govtrack
This bill will undermine services offering end-to-end encryption and force internet companies to take down lawful user content
tell reps to OPPOSE
www.congress.gov/members/find...
the 'STOP CSAM Act of 2025' [S.1829] is currently estimated to be 56% likely to pass according to Govtrack
This bill will undermine services offering end-to-end encryption and force internet companies to take down lawful user content
tell reps to OPPOSE
www.congress.gov/members/find...
Oppose STOP CSAM: Protecting Kids Shouldn’t Mean Breaking the Tools That Keep Us Safe
A Senate bill re-introduced this week threatens security and free speech on the internet. EFF urges Congress to reject the STOP CSAM Act of 2025 (S. 1829), which would undermine services offering end-...
www.eff.org
September 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Can we have a law called the "if you vote no on this bill you love kicking puppies act" that bans congresspeople from picking these ridiculous and deceptive names?
The torrent has reportedly been sort of slow to download. If you, like me, are a security researcher doing fun things with this data, you should use your fancy university/company servers to help seed :)
The Great Firewall of China has apparently experienced a great data spill. > 500gb of source code, work logs and internal communication records were leaked. Some light reading for the weekend /s
https://gfw.report/blog/geedge_and_mesa_leak/en/
https://gfw.report/blog/geedge_and_mesa_leak/en/
Geedge & MESA Leak: Analyzing the Great Firewall’s Largest Document Leak
The Great Firewall of China (GFW) experienced the largest leak of internal documents in its history on Thursday September 11, 2025. Over 500 GB of source code, work logs, and internal communication records were leaked, revealing details of the GFW's research, development, and operations.
gfw.report
September 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The torrent has reportedly been sort of slow to download. If you, like me, are a security researcher doing fun things with this data, you should use your fancy university/company servers to help seed :)
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Having graded enough handwritten exams (we use a lot of those in CS, scanned and thrown through gradescope), it can be hard to interpret just a single sentence. I would NOT want to grade a bunch of blue-book essays...
I suspect MANY courses are going to need locked-down computer labs.
I suspect MANY courses are going to need locked-down computer labs.
"Now that most mental effort tied to writing is optional, we need new ways to require the work necessary for learning. That means moving .. toward in-class blue book essays ... and other assessments that call on students to demonstrate knowledge in real time." #Gift www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
Opinion | The University’s Best Weapon Against A.I.: The 14th Century
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Having graded enough handwritten exams (we use a lot of those in CS, scanned and thrown through gradescope), it can be hard to interpret just a single sentence. I would NOT want to grade a bunch of blue-book essays...
I suspect MANY courses are going to need locked-down computer labs.
I suspect MANY courses are going to need locked-down computer labs.
Migrated to my own PDS! ATProto is pretty neat.
August 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Migrated to my own PDS! ATProto is pretty neat.
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One of the things that amazes me about scientific research is how much work goes into it. It’s just crazy. I mean all things require work, but it’s just so far above anything else (writing, software development.) I understand all the complaints about replication, what’s missing is the labor.
August 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
One of the things that amazes me about scientific research is how much work goes into it. It’s just crazy. I mean all things require work, but it’s just so far above anything else (writing, software development.) I understand all the complaints about replication, what’s missing is the labor.
As instructors we must deal with this before it's too late. "Don't use AI" isn't really a sufficient guardrail.
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August 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
As instructors we must deal with this before it's too late. "Don't use AI" isn't really a sufficient guardrail.
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Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/c...
Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent | TechCrunch
Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that t...
techcrunch.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/c...
Tom Scott making good stuff as always (11 years ago)
youtu.be/RIuf1V1FhpY
youtu.be/RIuf1V1FhpY
Oversight: Thank you for volunteering, citizen.
YouTube video by Tom Scott
youtu.be
August 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Tom Scott making good stuff as always (11 years ago)
youtu.be/RIuf1V1FhpY
youtu.be/RIuf1V1FhpY
Getting into big security conferences may be difficult, but I'm grateful to have never seen anything as bad as "who is adam"
July 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Getting into big security conferences may be difficult, but I'm grateful to have never seen anything as bad as "who is adam"
GWU was very welcoming of @pet-symposium.bsky.social attendees. The nearby whole foods, not so much.
July 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
GWU was very welcoming of @pet-symposium.bsky.social attendees. The nearby whole foods, not so much.
Users under China's censorship regime receive injected responses for bogus black-hole IP addresses when they try to do DNS lookups for censored domains. But what if those IPs weren't just bogus, but potentially malicious?
This week we presented our work: "I'll Shake Your Hand" to FOCI about this.
This week we presented our work: "I'll Shake Your Hand" to FOCI about this.
July 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Users under China's censorship regime receive injected responses for bogus black-hole IP addresses when they try to do DNS lookups for censored domains. But what if those IPs weren't just bogus, but potentially malicious?
This week we presented our work: "I'll Shake Your Hand" to FOCI about this.
This week we presented our work: "I'll Shake Your Hand" to FOCI about this.
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ICEBlock is incredibly false privacy claims for marketing. They falsely claim it provides complete anonymity when it doesn't. They're ignoring both data kept by Apple and data available to the server but not stored. They're also spreading misinformation about Android:
www.iceblock.app/android
www.iceblock.app/android
July 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
ICEBlock is incredibly false privacy claims for marketing. They falsely claim it provides complete anonymity when it doesn't. They're ignoring both data kept by Apple and data available to the server but not stored. They're also spreading misinformation about Android:
www.iceblock.app/android
www.iceblock.app/android
I'm excited to start work for SPHERE (sphere-project.net) on reproducible internet censorship research this summer!
SPHERE
sphere-project.net
May 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I'm excited to start work for SPHERE (sphere-project.net) on reproducible internet censorship research this summer!
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OTF President Laura Cunningham: The immediate consequence is that if this holds, over 45 million people will lose access to trusted and secure VPNs, leaving them exposed to authoritarian surveillance and persecution.
President Donald Trump’s weekend shutdown of the US Agency for Global Media has among its casualties a small — but influential — fund that helps internet users worldwide combat censorship from oppressive regimes.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Order Gutting Agencies Cuts Tools to Fight Censorship Worldwide
President Donald Trump’s weekend shutdown of the US Agency for Global Media has among its casualties a small — but influential — fund that helps internet users worldwide combat censorship from oppress...
www.bloomberg.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
OTF President Laura Cunningham: The immediate consequence is that if this holds, over 45 million people will lose access to trusted and secure VPNs, leaving them exposed to authoritarian surveillance and persecution.
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Someone passed this along: Mullvad is debuting a new traffic-analysis prevention service that adds generated cover traffic and uses constant packet sizes. mullvad.net/en/blog/intr...
Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) | Mullvad VPN
Even if you have encrypted your traffic with a VPN (or the Tor Network), advanced traffic analysis is a growing threat against your privacy. Therefore, we now introduce DAITA.
mullvad.net
March 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Someone passed this along: Mullvad is debuting a new traffic-analysis prevention service that adds generated cover traffic and uses constant packet sizes. mullvad.net/en/blog/intr...
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So here’s a simple request to Apple. Apple iMessage needs to enable “disappearing messages.” And they need to do it soon. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/03/01/d...
Dear Apple: add “Disappearing Messages” to iMessage right now
This is a cryptography blog and I always feel the need to apologize for any post that isn’t “straight cryptography.” I’m actually getting a little tired of apologizing for i…
blog.cryptographyengineering.com
March 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
So here’s a simple request to Apple. Apple iMessage needs to enable “disappearing messages.” And they need to do it soon. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/03/01/d...
Wallbleed: A Memory Disclosure Vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China
gfw.report/publications...
gfw.report/publications...
Wallbleed: A Memory Disclosure Vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China
gfw.report
February 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Wallbleed: A Memory Disclosure Vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China
gfw.report/publications...
gfw.report/publications...
Protip for anyone teaching a binary exploitation course: Gradescope's Docker container has ASLR enabled, but a cloud-init vm running in qemu-system-x86_64 does not :D
February 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Protip for anyone teaching a binary exploitation course: Gradescope's Docker container has ASLR enabled, but a cloud-init vm running in qemu-system-x86_64 does not :D