#auditability

Agustin V. Startariagustinstartari
2025-07-07

🧠 New paper
The Grammar of Objectivity
Language models simulate neutrality not by removing bias, but by formalizing it.

🔍 Based on 1,500 LLM outputs (medical/legal, 2019–2024)
⚠️ 64 % of medical and 57 % of legal texts flagged

🔗 Read / download:
Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15729518
SSRN: ssrn.com/abstract=5319520

Neutrality is no longer a meaning. It’s a structure.

Agustin V. Startariagustinstartari
2025-06-25

🚨 New academic publication:
The Grammar of Objectivity – Agustin V. Startari
🧠 How language models simulate neutrality without source or justification.

🔍 Structural audit on 1,000 LLM outputs
⚙️ INS: Simulated Neutrality Index
📎 DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15729518

Agustin V. Startariagustinstartari
2025-06-25

🚨 New academic article by Agustín V. Startari:
The Grammar of Objectivity: Formal Mechanisms for the Illusion of Neutrality in Language Models

🔍 Focus: How LLMs use syntax to simulate neutrality without epistemic grounding.
📊 Introduces the Simulated Neutrality Index (INS), based on 1,000 model outputs.
📁 Open access: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15729518

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-05-19

@TheQuinbox nodds in agreement to me "#AI" coding ruins the #readability, #maintainability and #auditability of the #sourcecode, and I do require this.

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-04-28

@jameskoole #Germany in fact #banned #VotingMachines because they violate #transparency and #auditability demands as in 'everyone who is eligible to vote must be able to verify the election procedures from start to finish without relying on external help or trusting anyone'

2025-02-19
But if all (most) CPUs are FGPAs, how does one bootstrap and assume the payload is not malicious?

Programmers using discrete electronics and punched tape would be a human-auditable (if tedious) way of bootstrapping.

A minimum viable target & programs for it to bootstrap everything else would be needed.

I consider this analogous to the #Guix bootstrap seed endeavor.

#FPGA #Bootstrap #Bootstrapping #CPU #Hardware #Security #Auditability
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2024-11-05

@virtuous_sloth @TheBreadmonkey I do agree on the fact that #auditability and #transparency is important!

  • I'll gladly migrate to a better option if there is one!
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2024-09-16

@nitrokey #NOICE!

After all, I'm a strong opponent of #blackbox|es in terms of #ITsec and #Encryption and I do think that #transparency is necessary for real #auditability.

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2024-08-15

@methuselah @froge precisely...

  • Same with like #IRC: They run even on really old systems barely siphoning resources...

To me #Matrix feels really undercooked and half-baked compared even to shitshows like #Slack and #Discord...

OFC there is no "one solution fits all" because there are conflicting requirements for different use-cases...

  • And my recommendations are based off given data like said requirements: Proper #E2EE with self-custody of keys as well as per-session individual, non-persistent keys is inherently incompatible with mandatory #archival requirements in #businesses...
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2024-08-06

@rayglittersoft I mean, don't take every word of him at face value - he has some nuts loose...

Personally, I don't think #Bitcoin or #Ethereum have a longterm future cuz they've got a very finite amount of coins and that makes them fall on their faces once the last has been mined.

Needless to say that every big purchase may fall under KYC & AML and thus face the same scrutiny.

Fortunately, #Monero does allow such #transparency and #auditability whereever needed or desired (aka. #ViewKey) and the rest is just complying with #accounting and #bookkeeping standards as relevant...

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2024-06-11

@Yuki @BrodieOnLinux As shit as RMS his, he's sadly right.

Needless to say, @cperciva will pretty much remind people that "#SourceAvailable" is NOT #OpenSource and that #Tarsnap's #SourceCode is merely made available for #security and #auditability reasons as well as enabling people to build it for their (potentially weird) machine...
tarsnap.com/open-source.html

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@mstdn.social
2023-11-13

@esm I digress:

There are many good #XMPP-Clients like #Profanity (#CLI), #monoclesChat (#Android) and #Gajim (#Desktop-#GUI)...

And in terms of #Organizations that require #Auditability, the only good option I found is #Zulip, which has excellent #Clients for #Desktop and #Terminal as well - tho sadly the latter one is written in #Python and not like a static binary...
github.com/zulip/zulip-termina

2023-08-18
Nuno Facha :rubberduck:​ 🇵🇹facha@infosec.exchange
2023-07-14

#cybersecurity community, need suggestions :eyes_happy:​

At work there are some generic emails like general@company.com, billing@company.com and so on,
This are all on #Google #Gsuite

All have secure passwords and #twofactorauthentication shared via #bitwarden with people that use them

I still don't like the idea of multiple people accessing the account and reducing the #auditability of who did what, for inbound email I can setup forwarding rules, but for them to send out email they still need to access the actual account, any better way to do it then this?

Märt Põdertramm@mstdn.social
2023-03-01

This individual vote verification tool for ongoing parliamentary elections in Estonia with its e-voting found its way into my digital democracy toolbox. We basically have individual verification for 30 minutes after submitting the ballot, but this tool lets you download the cryptogram, decrypt it and keep it for memory or later use. github.com/infoaed/kryptogramm #evoting #verification #auditability #rk2023

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