Seeing usually smart folks getting rope-a-doped into arguing for LLM utility like there's a moral justice zero-sum trolley-problem slider between "useful" and "ethical" and we're just arguing about the best setting
But the real problem is even dumber
-is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes
-is its data provenance founded on theft? Also yes
-will it be used to ruin ordinary workers' lives? Yup
-will it ruin countless organizations who think they're buying their way to cheap labor? That too
In August 2020, @SchizoDuckie and I published what was to become the first of a series of articles or posts called "No Need to Hack When It's Leaking."
In today's installment, I bring you "No Need to Hack When It's Leaking: Brandt Kettwick Defense Edition." It chronicles efforts by @JayeLTee, @masek, and I to alert a Minnesota law firm to lock down their exposed files, some of which were quite sensitive.
Read the post and see how even the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension had trouble getting this law firm to respond appropriately.
Great thanks to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension for their help on this one, and to @TonyYarusso and @bkoehn for their efforts.
#dataleak #misconfiguration #incidentresponse #incidentmanagement #responsibledisclosure #securityalert #infosec
⚠️ In four days Gemini wants to scan your phone ⚠️
Stop #Google now: 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android
Unit42 published a pretty decent write-up on malicious lnk files. It includes IOCs for the specific lnk files referenced in the post, but the concepts themselves are more important than the IOCs.
Our telemetry shows a surge in Windows shortcut (LNK) malware use. We explain how attackers exploit LNK files for malware delivery. Our telemetry shows a surge in Windows shortcut (LNK) malware use. We explain how attackers exploit LNK files for malware delivery.
"These are terrible numbers, but also, these are some genuinely impressive accounting gimmicks...." - you can say that again, @pluralistic; I think anyone with an iota of common sense would agree that this bullshit should be illegal.
We cannot allow "By the authority vested in me by being rich I declare that I am now even richer!" randos to control the common, even global #economy.
It's fucking bonkers.
We say "fucking" to keep Google's AI from fscking up search results with AI. And now we can say "gravy" to throw off the AI scrapers?
Fucking gravy.
Thank you @aj for cluing me in.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:n2okvbdq33c32ekbv6hfzdg2/post/3lsvh7cupqk2z
For anyone wondering why #gravy has been trending: AI hucksters are trawling through your social media posts for training data and trends. And you know what can gum up the gears of an automated sentence generator? Posts that use the word gravy out of context. #auspol #ChatGPT #AI #LLM
If I have to see this goddamn "spatial ability" argument one more time. Get more specific. What type of spatial ability you absolute clowns. Exactly what task, and explain how you address the spatial ability conflation with gender problems. Explain why and how these diffs vanish when you include all the spatial tasks THAT RESEARCHERS REMOVED BECAUSE GIRLS WERE GOOD AT THEM
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-023-09728-2
Spatial ability has long been regarded as important in STEM, and mental rotation, a subcategory of spatial ability, is widely accepted as the cognitive ability with the largest gender difference in favor of men. Multiple meta-analyses of various tests of spatial ability have found large gender differences in outcomes of the mental rotation test (MRT). In this paper, we argue that more recent literature suggests that the MRT is not a valid measure of mental rotation ability. More importantly, we argue that the construct of “spatial ability” itself has been co-constructed with gender, and thus has not been devised in a neutral way, but in a manner that is influenced by gender beliefs. We discuss that though spatial thinking is also required in feminized fields, past research has cast spatial ability as only necessary in masculinized STEM fields. Due to a prevailing belief that spatial ability was an inherently male ability, researchers “selectively bred” some spatial assessment instruments to maximize gender differences, rather than to precisely measure a spatial construct. We argue that such instruments, of which the MRT is one, cannot validly assess between-group differences, and ideas about biological or evolutionary causes of sex differences in spatial ability lack empirical evidence. Instead, the co-construction of gender and spatial ability better explains observed patterns. We also provide recommendations for spatial researchers moving forward.
Microsoft will launch next month a private preview of a new Windows technology that will allow antivirus and security tools to run without kernel access (because of the CrowdStrike incident)
Several EDR vendors are working with Microsoft to test the new technology
Resilience isn’t optional—it’s a strategic imperative. In today’s threat landscape, organizations can’t afford to treat resilience as a reactive measure. It must be built into the foundation of how systems are designed, secured and managed
⚠️ In four days Gemini wants to scan your phone ⚠️
Stop #Google now: 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android
@philip Köpte en begagnad Pixel 7 för typ 2 000 kr. Mycket lur för pengarna. Lawnchair är väl typ Googles vanliga launcher, fast utan Google?
Senaste versionen är typ ett år gammal, men funkar bra.
@panoptikontraband @meraord Jag köpte en begagnad Pixel 7 för ett par tusen kronor. Man får ju välja en hyfsat modern lur som det finns officiell eOS-version för.
När det gäller sms så funkade vanliga meddelanden fint när jag hade kopplat bort Googles RCS-grej, men MMS funkade inte innan jag pillade med nätverksinställningarna.
@meraord @Tutanota On my phone, Samsung S21 with Android 15, I was allowed to disable the Gemini app in Settings > Apps.
Later, I uninstalled it using the dev tools, but that's less straightforward.
Edit: Since this is being boosted, if you want to uninstall it with dev tools, the app ID to do so is com.google.android.apps.bard
@meraord @Tutanota Install RethinkDNS and block all connections that goes to and from Google. Allow the connections you have to use like for Google Play Store.
By doing this, it will be impossible for Google Gemini to connect to the internet, hipefully making it useless.
Either that or install a custom ROM. If you have a Pixel phone, GrapheneOS is highly recommended. Very easy to install too.
@ToshInMacc @ojelabii @Tutanota
I have the same. Android 15, pixel 8. But if I type "Gem" in searching app settings, then it looks like it shows up.
@Tutanota Easy to use description. Layperson-question: I don't have this Gemini app on my phone (Galaxy A21s, EU law) and remember that I had already deactivated the search assistant. Does this app appears automatically in 4 days? Or is it hidden somewhere?
(BTW; I even don't believe that Google doesn't collect data if deactivated.)
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