Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Aug 18th 2026

Security Now 1092

Restraint Abliteration

Rotating Keys, Broken Guardrails

New episodes every Tuesday.
Category: Help & How To

From autocorrect to full-fledged conversationalists, discover how a few tweaks transformed language models—and why understanding this shift exposes urgent questions about AI safety and control.

  • Trusting an open source AI proxy might bite you.
  • France's under-15 social media ban hits its constitution.
  • A bit of AI prompting found a serious bug in Zoom.
  • AI-based network defenders see a stock price jump.
  • A (very) deep dive into the operation of AI chatbots

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1092-Notes.pdf

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