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Easy improvements to personal opsec | Kevin Liu

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Thinking about physical and digital hygiene as LLMs start to upend privacy and security norms

I’ve been thinking more about how to be a little more private. In an era where LLMs can automatically deanonymize people from their writing, find zero-days en masse, and may potentially displace jobs, it seems safe to say that the variance of the next few years will be significantly higher than the two decades pre-2025. Threat model: A casual adversary who asks Grok-5 for “name, phone, and address of all people in [X reference group],” with the intent of causing disruption or harm. I don’t expect the strategies below to work against adversaries that are highly-competent (including but not…

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