[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 7 points 4 days ago

How will there be any assurance of standardization in vulnerability analysis with a decentralized system? Will orgs just have to keep lists of which GNAs they consider reliable and which they don't? I'm skeptical, and their FAQ doesn't seem to provide any answers.

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Looks like they're pretty concerned with the possibility of mass discrimination by AI, perhaps in the wake of the news about United Healthcare using AI to decline coverage. This could be useful to people:

If you believe that you or someone you know has been subjected to unlawful discrimination due to a health care provider’s or health insurance plan’s use of AI, please let us know by submitting a complaint to my office: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 62 points 7 months 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 84 points 8 months ago

Making a profit from healthcare and health insurance.

Or even just make private health insurance illegal.

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 123 points 10 months ago

Hahaha:

if you continue to try { thisBullshit(); } you are going to catch (theseHands)

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 68 points 10 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 11 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.

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Hi all, I recently got into the world of ergo mech by borrowing a friend's old Iris v2, and I really love how powerful and customizable things can be with QMK firmware.

Recently, my old n52te has started to show signs of age after a dozen or so years of abuse. If you're not familiar, they look like this:

There's definitely stuff that could be improved on--just being able to build your own firmware for it would be amazing. Having one or two more thumb buttons for layers would be sweet as well.

The community of ergo mech keyboard builders are doing some super cool things with 3d printed builds and all kinds of neat stuff. Since I've just been dipping my toes in, my question is: does anyone know of any good replacements for my n52te? Is this something anyone has tried tinkering around with?

Thanks!

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 69 points 1 year ago

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

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 70 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 169 points 1 year ago

People don't seriously try to use Kali as a daily driver, do they? That's just a meme, right? Right?

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 73 points 2 years ago

Seems like a weird and random assortment of items. Why was Google Hangouts mentioned, but not Gmail? What about Discord, Slack, etc? Or smart TVs? Almost felt more like guerrilla advertising for a few niche products.

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 112 points 2 years ago

I remember thinking that women gave birth to girls and men gave birth to boys, and being really worried because I (as a guy) didn't want to give birth.

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