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Feb 2025
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SN 1011: Jailbreaking AI - Deepseek, "RO...

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About this episode
  • Why was DeepSeek banned by Italian authorities?
  • What internal proprietary DeepSeek data was found online?
  • What is "DeepSeek" anyway? Why do we care, and what does it mean?
  • Did Microsoft just make OpenAI's strong model available for free?
  • Google explains how generative AI can be and is being misused.
  • An actively exploited and unpatched Zyxel router vulnerability.
  • The new US "ROUTERS" Act.
  • Is pirate-site blocking legislation justified or is it censorship?
  • Russia's blocked website count tops 400,000.
  • Microsoft adds "scareware" warnings to Edge.
  • Bitwarden improves account security.
  • What's still my favorite disk imaging tool?
  • And let's take a close look into the extraction of proscribed knowledge from today's AI

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1011-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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