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AIs Hacking the Law

In both a 2021 essay and my 2022 book, A Hacker’s Mind, I talk about AIs finding vulnerabilities and exploits—hacking—the legal system. Here’s some demonstrations of this from Ger...

Nov 3, 2026 UTC
vulnerabilityvia Trail of Bits Blog

Backporting security fixes at scale with Codex

Stable Linux releases lack existing security fixes because backporting them is time-consuming and often thankless work. We’re using Codex to reduce the backporting process time fro...

Nov 2, 2026 UTC
supply-chainvia Trail of Bits Blog

Package managers have an integrity problem

I tested 25 of the most popular package managers to check whether they detect a compromised package repository injecting malicious code into legitimate packages. This code integrit...

Oct 14, 2026 UTC
vulnerabilityvia Trail of Bits Blog

Don't let TEEs break your MPC

Threshold signature schemes, a form of multi-party computation (MPC) that lets a set of parties sign together without any one of them holding the key, are increasingly deployed ins...

Sep 25, 2026 UTC
cloudvia Trail of Bits Blog

SAML: A fractal of bad design

Born out of academia and raised in corporate IT departments, the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) authentication protocol continues to be a staple in these organizations....

Sep 21, 2026 UTC