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“The Chaos Computer Club supports the three hackers who explained in detail at 37C3 how the Polish rail vehicle manufacturer Newag had manipulated its trains in such a way that they could only be repaired in the company's own workshops. The manufacturer reacted to the publications with an attitude not seen since the 90s and sued the hackers under both criminal and civil law.
The CCC is calling for donations to cover the legal and other resulting costs incurred so far.”
Anytime I get a chance, I tell people they should be using a password manager. I don’t want to rattle on about a bunch of technical details that most people don’t care about.
If you are interested in an excellent and concise explanation of why your old approach for passwords does not work and how password managers improve your […]
there's a whole other story about NaNoWriMo's grooming scandal last year, where a paid mod was recruiting from the Christian teen forum to his adult diaper fetish site
their solution was to shut the forums, which also saved complaints about their past bad sponsors like the fake publisher in 2022
I just dreamed up an amusing way for things to fail using LLMs:
1. Deliverable is a test suite testing some new feature. Validate by looking at the logs to see if things passed.
2. LLM makes generates tests and generates passing logs.
3. Everybody signs off on it. Job well done.
4. Nothing works, of course, because the logs were generated by the LLM instead of by the test suite.
It would be hard to make this mistake, but it's amusing to think about...
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