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evacideQ&A from a talk I gave last week.
Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"
A: Fascism. It's fascism.
Ben Rush@evacide 'struth
Greg Bell@evacide This! Why is almost everyone in the industry normal-washing as if not addressing the issue is protection against it?
Eleanor Saitta
Human Mimic@evacide I appreciate how you're able to get to the point. We keep pointing at the rocks that get thrown and never at the person doing the throwing
Chupacabra 78704
Martin Ruskov@Homoevolutis0 @evacide but is it fascism or just plain egoism and greed that takes advantage of fascist sentiments? Or maybe the difference doesn't matter?
Violet Madder@mapto @Homoevolutis0 @evacide
What difference?
Aaron@violetmadder @mapto @Homoevolutis0 @evacide Fascism is literally what happens when you take greed and egoism to a form of government. All the isms and phobias, racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, nationalism -- you name it! They are all egoism and greed. The belief that people like yourself are special and deserve to take from other people whatever you want, even their lives.
I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑🔥@mapto isn't "taking advantage of fascist sentiments" not basically just fascism? @Homoevolutis0 @evacide
Tiago Hackbarth@xinit @mapto @Homoevolutis0 @evacide
This question makes me remember this quote:
"Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore."
A. R. Moxon
ℂ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕖@world: /# 
@mapto @Homoevolutis0 @evacide It's the same thing. We tend to think of fascism as purely the ideology behind it, but fascism can only be sustained by some form of elites profiting off of it. Hitlers top-tier people were filthy rich and had their desires of seemingly infinite power fulfilled. In the US it's Trump and the oligarchs around him, just like in Russia right now. He is doing similar things that Putin did back in the day.
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫@celeste_42bit @mapto @Homoevolutis0 @evacide
Yeah it's not so much an ideology as a modus operandi for nation-scale robbery.
Yeah it's not so much an ideology as a modus operandi for nation-scale robbery.
sleepfreeparent@mapto @Homoevolutis0 @evacide dude, they already have death camps and plans for more, they've already threatened to annex our nearest neighbors and implemented furherprinzip by executive order, fucker did 2 literal Nazi salutes at the inauguration just so you'd know it's no accident.
And you're STILL like but are they really Nazis tho? Yes. Yes they are Nazis
And you're STILL like but are they really Nazis tho? Yes. Yes they are Nazis
Urban Hermit@sleepfreeparent @mapto @Homoevolutis0 @evacide people are like, "don't pay attention to this, it is just a ploy to get your attention!"
I can pay attention to both their stupidity and their evil at the same time. Pointing out their evil is for us, pointing out their stupidity is for the people who might admire their tactics or their ruthlessness, and it gives the rest of us a laugh.
wirepair@evacide the way companies are heading, cybersecurity seems to _be the threat leading to assisting fascism_
Jay@evacide and this applies a fortiori to organisations in countries like Australia, where I live, that have in the recent past decided that hosting a bunch of their data and cloud processing in North America was an acceptable compromise.
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦@evacide please, tell me that you did get a standing ovation
krubzor@evacide good point. The issue is always ethical rather than external, no matter the time and contemporary technology
MegatronicThronBanksIt's shockingly bad and entrenched software industry practices.
@megatronicthronbanks You are free to make this point during the Q&A at the end of your keynote.
@evacide Cheers, but Jon Blow will probably have said it all already in an earlier slot.
Tim Chase@megatronicthronbanks @evacide You make it sound like once-and-done with the "fascism-is-bad" message is sufficient…It doesn't seem like it's a bad message to reiterate 😉
Harrison Totty@evacide 1000x this. I'm giving a quantum talk in September and I suspect a similar question will be asked. Totally going to give this response.
contrefeu@evacide Backdoors, backdoors everywhere.
fedops 💙💛@evacide indeed. Insider threats have always been a huge concern.
Philosia@evacide The answer lies in this book. It is an appeal to all creative people and people belonging to science to come together at global level.
https://mastodon.social/@Philosia/114500703643794294
https://mastodon.social/@Philosia/114500703643794294
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U.LancierFragen und Antworten eines Vortrags von @evacide letzter Woche:
Frage: „Was denkst Du ist momentan die ärgste Bedrohung bei IT-Sicherheit? Sind es Quantentechnische Entwicklungen? Ist es Künstliche Intelligenz?“
Antwort: „Faschismus. Es ist der Faschismus.“
(Übersetzt ohne Google Translate o.ä.)
Der übergriffige Zugriff auf Daten durch Behörden, Geheimdienste und ähnlichem ist in der Regel nicht technisch, sondern nur durch Verfassungen, Gesetze und internationale Abkommen beschränkt – Regeln, die bereits in Demokratien durch Außen-, Wirtschafts- und Innenpolitische Interessen ausgehöhlt werden. Autokratien scheren sich da einen Dreck drum.
Datenschutz, Datensparsamkeit, Datenautonomie ist zwingend für die Demokratie.
Linux Is BestIt is why I have been slowly building a list of digital services outside Us Jurisdiction. I cannot be certain how secure and safe it may be to use services here, especially if things get worse.
Ken S@evacide the weakest link is always human. Always.
Fluchtkapsel@evacide So you're saying we need post-fascism cybersecurity?
869Bronte
The1goit @evacide and vibe coders.
Drey
hackbyte Antifa (friendica) 13HB1A very sad truth 🙁
T2R@evacide A: It's fascism using "a.i."
qwazix@evacide replace cybersecurity with... anything really, and it still stands
Gehtso
Colin@evacide @garrwolfdog that and the Friedman doctrine.
Ann H
Tanawts@evacide in more ways than one... I worry just how much technology and infosec will be used to proliferate fascism
@evacide yes you're right 👍