[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 62 points 2 weeks ago

As a cybersecurity guy, it's things like this study, which said:

Overall, we find that participants who had access to an AI assistant based on OpenAI’s codex-davinci-002 model wrote significantly less secure code than those without access. Additionally, participants with access to an AI assistant were more likely to believe they wrote secure code than those without access to the AI assistant.

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 48 points 2 months ago

10 years ago would have been 2014; at that point 25 Bitcoin would be a good chunk of cash:

The price of bitcoin opened the year at $770, according to the CoinDesk Price Index. By mid-December, it was trading in the mid-$300 range. This represents a drop of more than 50% from the start of the year.

It'd be interesting to know when this was actually from; it's a great screenshot even without the exact details, though.

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 47 points 2 months ago

A coworker of mine has worked with CrowdStrike in the past; I haven't. He said that the releases he was familiar with from them in the past were all staged into groups and customers were encouraged to test internally before applying them; not sure if this is a different product or what, but it seems like a big step backwards of what he's saying is right.

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 69 points 4 months ago

Hardware controls are meaningless if an attacker gets you to click on a dodgy link in a phishing email or you fall for a social engineering scam when "Microsoft" calls you because your computer has a virus.

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 67 points 4 months ago

You seem to be taking about something other than enshittification, which has a specific meaning and isn't just places not respecting privacy or whatever. Per Cory Doctorow (who invented the term) via Wikipedia:

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two sided market", where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

If enshittification is what you're assist interested in reducing, check out Cory's book, The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 44 points 5 months ago

Terminator 2. The ad campaign and trailers revealed what had the potential to be an amazing reversal of expectations well ahead of time. I actually got to see it with a friend who was out of touch enough to not have seen any spoilers; I wish I'd had his experience.

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 69 points 6 months ago

I think you mean "than other thieves stole." Don't want to accidentally imply they aren't thieves.

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 71 points 6 months ago

Saw this a while ago and it solves that "paradox" nicely.

The Paradox of Tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance, NOT as a moral standard, but as a social contract. If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, they are not covered by it. In other words, the intolerant aren't deserving of your tolerance.

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 59 points 7 months ago

I mean, the domestic businesses are the ones who own Congress and are using it to get rid of a competitor.

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 55 points 11 months ago

FYI, what you're talking about is the Dark Web; the Deep Web is different. "Deep Web" refers to places on the regular Internet that are not indexed by Google and the other major search engines; you don't need Tor to get to them.

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 47 points 1 year ago

The thing is, truth decay has been going on for a while now. 2016 was of course the year of "alternative facts," but even before then anyone with sufficient money and/or clout could redefine truth to some degree.

What we're going to see with ChatGPT and deepfakes is really just a democratization of truth decay: what was once the province of only a few will now be open to us all.

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 54 points 1 year ago

Exactly: a large chunk of the time, videos seem to simply be a way to stretch the content that could be a bullet list into a not-easily-parseable mess of content sandwiched into "Hey lovely people.... Don't forget to SMASH that like and subscribe button!"

Sometimes videos are done well, but an annoying number of them are just attempts to monetize fluid content with a lot of padding; they're like the recipe blogs of the video world.

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