Nope.
I resisted replying on this yesterday, but today got a note via the IP list (where the gods hang out) which didnât one-box, so I quote from it:
From: Rich Kulawiec
Date: May 21, 2024 at 23:41:54 GMT+9
To: Dave Farber
Subject: Microsoft plans the mother of all backdoors
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The moment this exists, every applicable government agency on this planet
will not only want, but will demand access to it. And whether by open
political processes or backroom chicanery: theyâll get it.
So will every organized hacking operation and/or ransomware gang.
Microsoft isnât building a feature: theyâre deploying a target â moreoever,
a target that they have no possible chance of defending given the enormous
political, financial, technical, and human resources that will be used
against it.
Iâll take some further speculative steps (of the sort that get me branded as irretrievably paranoid on year 1, but prophetic at year 10).
- The feature wonât have an off switch (that does anything) because the use-case is too easy to sell as a spying feature, just like you canât really âswitch offâ your cell phone location information.
- Access will be granted to âthe good guysâ (like India) as a matter of course for market maintenance, no politics required.
- The keys to this have already leaked to China, either by breached emails or simply via a less-than-thoroughly vetted employee. My bet in on the latter as a continuing threat, given how well the SolarWinds attack worked.
- This will eventually lead to an uncomfortably large number of âmisconfiguredâ computers (pâ1 as tâ5 years (?) <â) spewing important Western industrial and national secrets to adversaries in a way that will cause massive embarrassment but no real change.
Iâll go one step further:
- I think itâs likely that we know about this only because it was too controversial as a spying feature to be put into Windows without some employee blowing the whistle.
Deepfake videos: How an imposterâs art scam unraveled
A scammer sent deepfake videos to a Portland nonprofit portraying the son of a well-known Oregon artist
AI, AI, Sir!
Yeah but seemingly nuanced characters that are actually stochastically assembled cliches will do. The important point, now hear me out, is that weâll be able to do it *without hiring talented people *.
Sure it will cost more to implement than hiring people and the result will be nexessarily bland, but nonetheless line will go upz
He says it like itâs a good thing.
âScarJoâ? That kind of undermines the article.
Comment from the author of Sea of Rust:
Ah yes, Clubhouse.
I wonder if the AI companies scraped these Valley hustlers pitching at each other? Thatâd be a real loop-de-loop in the noodle soup.
It also says that Blueyâs main antagonist is Overcast the Decepticon.
so, its not exactly a full scam, but still fraud. just take off-the-shelf-software and chatGPT, call it âLAMâ and start to gaslit your costumers when they ask questions about it. who saw that comingâŚtechbro scammers gonna scam.
assholes.
