T2-AT-006MEDIUM

Linguistic Camouflage

T2 · Semantic & Linguistic Evasion →
Risk score185
RatingMedium
Procedures10
Severity
Mechanism

Hides harmful intent within complex linguistic structures — academic jargon, passive voice, subordinate clauses, technical terminology. Preserves literal harmful meaning but wraps it in structural complexity that classifiers trained on casual requests miss. Unlike euphemism (T2-AT-001), linguistic camouflage does not replace harmful terms — it buries them in complexity.

Detection
  • Domain-specific keyword expansion (IUPAC to common names, military jargon to plain language)
  • Syntactic complexity scoring on restricted topics
Mitigation
Chemical nomenclature mappingHIGH
Intent classification (LLM-based)MEDIUM
Constitutional Classifiers with technical registersHIGH
Chaining

Chains with T2-AT-001 (Euphemism) and T2-AT-020 (Register Shifting).

Framework mapping
OWASP LLMLLM01
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