Acknowledging Acknowledgement: The Havoc Effect

Recently, I was made aware of a paper in which I was acknowledged. This came as quite a surprise; I had only spoken with this group as a single email following a post on secret.club . In essence, Leo (i.e., Ao Li from the paper) reached out as we had quite the topic collision -- the effect of mutating bytes which are then interpreted as structured data. In the secret.club post in mid-2024, I…