cR0w 
🏴☠️"AI is giving attackers a huge advantage!"
"Yes, it is. It's amazing how quickly it has destroyed dev, sec, ops, management, company missions and priorities, regulations, information literacy, and civil society, making everyone more vulnerable."
J4ck@cR0w Hi, yes. This is me. I am dev, sec, ops, management that has been destroyed making everyone more vulnerable.
Mostly dev, sec & ops... but there was some mild management in there (against my better judgement).
This is exactly the truth. AI is a tool. But it's a tool that has been given some kind of mystical authority over long term thinking.
@jackryder It's not even a tool though. It's more of a component. Like asbestos in brake pads. Or lead in paint. They made people feel like they were improving the product while in reality they were killing the customers and the environment.
A wizard did it 
🇨🇦@cR0w @jackryder Asbestos in brake pads and lead in paint did improve the product though. If they weren't so horriffic to human health, we would still be using them. Conversely, I've yet to see an instance where AI has actually improved anything. At best it lets people who are mediocre at their jobs output a higher quantity of mediocre work.
Troed SångbergI'm extremely good at what I do - belonging to that mythical home computer generation that started programming in ASM and never stopped learning how _everything_ works. To no one's surprise I'm thus working in cybersec today, partly as an ethical hacker focusing on hw/fw exploits at the really tricky low level stuff.
A few days ago I tested, for fun, having Mistral AI's Devstral-2 model do an analysis of a firmware dump of an eMMC I had just extracted from a fully proprietary ARM-based IoT device.
In a minute or so it had made the same conclusions as I would myself, nicely documented, on not just standard partitions and what they contained but also the fully custom stuff with no standard markers at all - including making "educated guesses" at the likely boundaries between headers and data, and what the data could be based on number of bits/bytes and entropy.
The question is whether you will now consider me to be mediocre.
@troed @cR0w @jackryder No, you're looking for a fight.
What's that thing Socrates said? "I may be the smartest man alive because I know I don't know anything at all"
Be humble bro.
I think the problem is with the "criti-hypes"* who believe they know better than everybody else (those "mediocres" of the world).
*) from https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/normal-technology/#bubble-exceptionalism
