trackcharlie @ trackcharlie @lemmynsfw.com

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The concept and implementation of TPM use has been a joke since inception.

veracrypt or luks; bitlocker is a total joke.

It's reality now days. \o/

e. also the artist created the image in 2008. Right after the world economy died and has been on QE and 'rescue operations' by various central banks since. :/

The irony of you saying I am the one being pedantic is seriously hilarious.

You should probably work on your reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

The entire premise of your argument is 'only criminals use this tool' or 'the majority of users of this tool are criminals' when that is fundamentally and objectively incorrect.

You clearly lack any serious experience in computer science, let alone cybersecurity, and it shows.

Your comment had me remember this image by the artist EranFowler:

A tool is just that, a tool.

Just because what you consider immoral or moral individuals use it doesn't change the inherent nature of the tool to be used for specific circumstances. You'll also notice I didn't put any deterministic language when describing a penetration tester, because regardless of what side of the law they're on they're still cybersecurity professionals, it's just that one side happens to pay better.

A knife can be used to dissect as well as it can be used to mutilate or even vivisect. How a tool is used is determined by the user not the creator.

Complaining that a few people use the item for nefarious purposes when the majority of problematic cases are issues at the developer level for the items being affected (i.e. vehicles) is extremely short sighted. Are you going to restrict all PC's because they can be used for network intrusion?

Are you going to limit access to the internet because the freely available information can teach anyone to create a dirty bomb?

The premise of your outlook is inherently erroneous in my opinion.

Direct quote from https://flipperzero.one/:

Flipper Zero Multi-tool Device for Geeks Flipper Zero is a portable multi-tool for pentesters and geeks in a toy-like body. It loves hacking digital stuff, such as radio protocols, access control systems, hardware, and more. It's fully open-source and customizable, so you can extend it in whatever way you like.

Flipper Zero is a portable multi-tool for pentesters and geeks

multi-tool for pentesters

pentesters

Pentester or penetration tester is a cybersecurity professional that can be located on red team (offence) or blue team (defence) and works to determine potential vectors for attack that need to be rectified or exploited, depending on who they're working for and what their goals are for their employer.

If you have experience and effective training browsing the dark web, there are several examples of your concerns already coming alive.

Bot farms have levelled up to ai farms, with various models being made as 'specialist' ai's for things like credit card theft, network intrusion, malware, etc, and from when I last looked into it a few months ago they had already moved on to attempt to get all the specialists to start training general purpose models.

Things are not looking particularly great and I would posit if AGI does happen in our lifetime it's not going to be because anyone alive actually intended that to happen, but the criminals running a wide variety of specialists train a general purpose ai with intentions to use it for easy money.

I usually chirp back with 'nothing we have now is really AI' but I can't seriously take that view with some of the things being tested by some criminal organizations these days and there's not really a way to stop this from happening.

As someone with military experience, military members, especially flag officers, are not the brightest bulbs in the world and are easily awed by extremely simple tech demonstrations.

It's already too late, make sure you've got your favorite food and beverages ready because several countries already have autonomous weapons being live tested in the middle east, and from my understanding of the situation, the new jets already have some hilariously incompetent AI in them (in simulation, the air force contractor that was in control kept giving ethical barriers to objective completion and the ai went to kill the controller to more easily complete the objective...)

e. public sources: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/01/1002196245/a-u-n-report-suggests-libya-saw-the-first-battlefield-killing-by-an-autonomous-d

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-artificial-intelligence-drone/

(The above are public articles maintained to minimize concern surrounding the tech which is why the air force almost immediately walked back their accidental admissions with the following statement:

“The Department of the Air Force has not conducted any such AI-drone simulations and remains committed to ethical and responsible use of AI technology. This was a hypothetical thought experiment, not a simulation,” said Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek. "

From my understanding, of course take this with a grain of salt since I'm an anon on a message board, we did do this.)

I definitely agree with you but I'm not sure how far they can take this in an economic situation that is currently devolving into a major recession and has all the macroeconomic factors of an incoming second depression.

I think it was worth your time trying. There's always the possibility somewhere down the line that the individual(s) you spoke to will encounter a situation in their life that will force them to reflect on their views and attempt to update them from archaic to pre-modern.

Discussion is never a failure, in my opinion, but I absolutely believe it can be seriously draining.

Firefox + ublock origin would be your best scenario for privacy and security. Privacy because all these ads track your page loads and attempt to generate a unique id for your browser based on your loading time of certain pixels, and security because nearly half of all ads (and more than half of all links on google search and nearly all ads on google search) are viral loads just waiting for an accidental click.

You got me, I laughed pretty hard

Adblockers or torrents mate. I've not seen an ad in over 18 years.

So, rather than hold automakers accountable for not having proper and effective security practices you focus on a tool designed for security professionals.

This take is so unbelievably brain dead I'm surprised these people are able to breathe without machine assistance

Anyone wondering why the rest of the world has begun taking the US less and less seriously and has begun distancing themselves from any decisions we make, you can thank this incompetent orange retard for the ludicrous amount of damage he did to the US's soft power.

Trumps brain is as mushy as bidens, I wouldn't doubt at all if he, in fact, does not know this anymore. There seriously needs to be an age limit of 55-60 for elected officials this is fucking ridiculous.

How these companies don't realize these incompetent decisions push formerly paying customers into piracy is actually beyond me.

Do every c-level employee in these companies have brain damage?

Are you being intellectually dishonest or are you actually missing the point?

I seriously can't tell.

For reference, Russian hackers 'steal everything' and have agents in every country. Using a stolen UA credit card to purchase access to spacex sattelites and then insuring the direct operator(s) stay in UA as an intel relay is not difficult.

Point to the effective alternatives that aren't hell bent on turning women back into domicile slaves.

I'll wait.

And these companies will pay a small fine and continue doing it anyway