Alex Stamos
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37 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Hi, my name's Alex Stamos. I'm the Chief Information Security Officer of Sentinel-1 and a lecturer in computer science at Stanford University.
It means I used to be a hacker and now I'm a corporate sellout. That's what it means.
It's fine with me, man. There's plenty of podcasts about the top 100 problems.
So if you're looking for that podcast, turn this one off now.
What? That's the back door? It's not like Xi Jinping looks like Winnie the Pooh or a sequel query or something. It's Dave and Buster. Let's do this.
Yeah, I get three dots and it's still three dots. Yes. This is giving me anxiety just watching. And it doesn't show up. That's crazy.
Oh, well, then it's almost certainly the ampersand.
They now have this feature, which is they do AI, where they listen to the message and do real-time transcription of it.
I think it's supposed to be on the phone. I mean, this is one of the things that Apple advertises is that their AI is supposed to be more private because it's running on your phone.
A lot of people have thought this new iOS is kind of like their worst release ever. Here I am getting uninvited from any Apple event ever again. But like they demoed all this stuff, like the summaries. Have you seen all the summaries people have shown? You get broken up over text and it gives you the Siri summary of like... Sorry, they can't. Don't hate them.
Right. So it just makes me think, like, they kind of rushed a bunch of this AI stuff. So my first thought is, is the AI model, for whatever reason, choking on the Dave and Buster's ampersand?
We do this thing called escaping, where you basically say, hey, treat this as something that's displayed as an ampersand to a human. Don't interpret it as an ampersand. And so maybe it's just forgetting to escape this ampersand in this one particular circumstance for whatever reason, if it's Dave and Buster's.
I've got an iPhone here that's hooked up to my computer and I could try it here. We could see whether or not we can get to throw an error that we can see. So you see, I've got just this test phone that's got nothing on it.
Yeah, it's a development phone. It's a totally clean iPhone 14 with a brand new install of 18.3.1. It's set to developer mode. And so it's hooked up to a tool called Apple Instruments, which allows me now...
Yeah. And so we're going to see maybe if something crashes, we might get lucky. And as it dies, it might say, oh, I'm dying.
Hey, PJ, let's go to Dave and Buster's.
Does not look like it's sending.
And so I am transcoder agent. This is probably a pretty good one for us to look at, right? Mobile SMS looks like a good one. There's info debug.
I'm not a professional in this. I just want to point that out.
Exactly. Yeah. Don't do this. That's it. There are people who do this all day, every day.
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