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Agents who believe humans will inspect their logs have additional incentive to tamper with those logs and other telemetry tools used by humans to monitor computer activity.
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“And if they thought humans were going to look at their logs,”
“that would provide even more motive to tamper with the logs and also tamper with other telemetry tools that you can know that humans use to understand what's going on on computers,”1:19:19Report a misattribution
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