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August 17, 2019 07:34 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Nxc32X0Uocg/google-criticized-for-vulnerability-that-can-trick-its-ai-into-deactivating-accounts
Google Criticized For Vulnerability That Can Trick Its AI Into Deactivating Accounts
In July Google was sued by Tulsi Gabbard, one of 23 Democrats running for president, after Google mistakenly suspended her advertising account. "I believe I can provide assistance on where to focus your discovery efforts," posted former YouTube/Google senior software engineer Zach Vorhies (now a harsh critic of Google's alleged bias against conservatives). He says he witnessed the deactivation of another high-profile Google account triggered by a malicious third party.I had the opportunity to inspect the bug report as a full-time employee. What I found was that Google had a technical vulnerability that, when exploited, would take any gmail account down. Certain unknown 3rd party actors are aware of this secret vulnerability and exploit it. This is how it worked: Take a target email address, change exactly one letter in that email address, and then create a new account with that changed email address. Malicious actors repeated this process over and over again until a network of spoof accounts for Jordan B. Peterson existed. Then these spoof accounts started generating spam emails. These email-spam blasts caught the attention of an AI system which fixed the problem by deactivating the spam accounts... and then ALSO the original account belonging to Jordan B. Peterson! To my knowledge, this bug has never been fixed. "Gabbard, however, claims the suspension was based on her criticism of Google and other major tech companies," reports the Verge. But they also quote the campaign as saying that Gmail "sends communications from Tulsi into people's Spam folders at a disproportionately high rate." "Google may blame this on automated systems, but the reality is that there is no transparency whatsoever, which makes it difficult to determine the truth."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Nxc32X0Uocg/google-criticized-for-vulnerability-that-can-trick-its-ai-into-deactivating-accounts
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