Steven Murdoch

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Professor of Security Engineering; Head of UCL Information Security Research Group @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk; Director Open Rights Group. 🐘 https://mastodon.social/@sjmurdoch 🐦 @sjmurdoch 🌍 https://murdoch.is/

If calling for a worldwide conversation on AI risk is in contradiction with supporting a US spy agency to – potentially – attack Iran and China with cyberweapons, neither development is “surprising” given the AI company’s past actions, said Steven Murdoch, a professor at University College London. “Anthropic might give the impression of being warm and fuzzy, but their definition of AI safety is narrow. Supporting US authorities in the development of offensive capabilities has never been something they have spoken against,” he said. Murdoch said that Anthropic’s post did not offer evidence of any step changes in the progress of AI capabilities. “It is true that there’s some evidence that AI capabilities have increased and continue to increase with no limits becoming immediately clear,” he said, but he added: “I don’t think anything has fundamentally changed today that has caused Anthropic to publish this article.”
⏺ At St Pancras, a Quarter Past Nine after John Betjeman The gothic clock of Scott's red brick Regards the concourse, vast and pale, Where escalators, sorely sick, On platform A have ceased to sail; The up-bound stair from platform B Is likewise fixed in lethargy. The eight-and-forty for St Albans Has hung her head these thirty-seven — She creeps at last, her carriages ailing, Toward a Hertfordshire half-heaven Where Knebworth lawns and Harpenden Receive the late commuting men. Platform A: the Brighton flyer, Two small minutes out of true, Breathes past Farringdon, and higher Gothic vaults of Blackfriars' view — Where, soon behind, the Rainham train Tilts eastward through the Kentish rain. O litany of riverside stops! Greenwich, Maze Hill, Westcombe Park, Charlton's terraces, corner shops, Woolwich Dockyard after dark; Plumstead, Belvedere, Erith's gleam, Slade Green sidings under steam; Then Dartford, Stone Crossing, Greenhithe (For Bluewater's consumer shrine), Swanscombe chalk-pits, Northfleet, blithe Gravesend where the marshes shine — Higham, Strood, and Rochester's keep, Chatham, Gillingham, Rainham's sleep. But spare a thought, at twelve-past-nine, For Sutton, London SM1 — Her train is cancelled on the line, Her passengers, their evening done, Shall shuffle to the Northern Line And dream of semis, trim and fine. Beyond, a gentler warning comes: Through Stevenage, ten minutes late; From Streatham down where Wimbledon hums, A twenty-minute verdict's weight. So stand beneath the station's span And pity the commuting man.
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The Use of Electronic Evidence in the Law
Where informed by a payment service provider of the occurrence of the type of fraud as referred to in paragraph 1, electronic communications services providers shall cooperate closely with payment service providers and act swiftly to ensure that appropriate organizational and technical measures are in place to safeguard the security and confidentiality of communications in accordance with Directive 2002/58/EC, including with regard to calling line identification and electronic mail address. If the electronic communications service providers do not remove the fraudulent or illegal content, after being informed of its occurence, they shall refund the payment service provider the full amount of the fraudulent authorised payment transaction under the condition that the consumer has, without any delay, reported the fraud to the police and notified its payment service provider.
Where a payment services user who is a consumer was manipulated by a third party pretending to be an employee of the consumer’s payment service provider or any other relevant entity of a public or private nature using the name or e-mail address or telephone number of that entity unlawfully and that manipulation gave rise to subsequent fraudulent authorised payment transactions, the payment service provider shall refund the consumer the full amount of the fraudulent authorised payment transaction under the condition that the consumer has, without any delay, reported the fraud to the police and notified its payment service provider.
FastTrack plus charge, allowing passengers to avoid the shops.
Stansted Airport departures showing “Relax” by flights for which gate information is unavailable.
Sometimes, members of the public contact Prof Murdoch when they are having trouble proving to their bank that they have been the victim of fraud. “If the transaction was done by magstripe, then it’s a very easy argument to say someone copied it,” says Prof Murdoch as he points out the irony. “But if the transaction was one of the more secure methods - then it’s much harder.”
Volume of APP fraud received per million transactions (non-directed PSPs). Largest value is Dzing Finance with 187,695 fraudulent transactions per million.
Chart showing the percentage of reported APP fraud losses refunded by value.