Simon Thomas  

@SecureStrategy@infosec.exchange
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Cybersecurity consultant helping organisations reduce their real (not theoretical) risks. Tramper. Passionate about the South Island of New Zealand.
Websitehttps:\\securestrategy.co.nz
O’Brien said that if we wanted a vision of the future, we should picture a boot coming down on a human face, forever, but actually I think the most realistic image of our future is Dave Bowman in "2001", desperately trying to disable all the "AI” features in his computer after each upgrade.
@gnyman @riskybusiness @metlstorm Completely agree - anyone who relies on these services to understand the security maturity of a supplier is being misled. They tell you nothing about the things that really matter - MFA, security alerting and response, secure configuration, governance etc.
@neurovagrant @riskybiz @riskybusiness @campuscodi Agreed its a fantastic resource
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I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity

I am begging people to stop using AI generated image garbage on their social posts when trying to make smart points. Completely undermines your whole argument when the image is full of misspelled words and graphics that don’t make any sense 🤦‍♀️

@MichaelZ @GossiTheDog

Recail will kill the ability for organisations to allow employees or contractors to use their own PCs to connect to any work system, including O365. Only managed devices where Recall has been removed will be trusted. Get ready for an explosion in costs due to this idiocy.

I firmly believe that the only people who come to work to do cyber security are people in those roles. Everyone else in the organisation has their own role they need to perform - whether in finance, payroll, marketing, management, production etc. The goal of cyber security is to implement measures that work in the background to reduce risk without adversely affecting the ability of people to perform their roles. Yes, people need to be aware of the risks to security and privacy, and to understand the actions they can take. But if someone clicks a phishing email, or buys a gift card, it doesn't mean that they have failed. The failure is in the security measures that are meant to protect the organisation.

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/05/on-fire-drills-and-phishing-tests.html

On Fire Drills and Phishing Tests

Matt Linton, Chaos Specialist In the late 19th and early 20th century, a series of catastrophic fires in short succession led an outraged pu...

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O’Brien said that if we wanted a vision of the future, we should picture a boot coming down on a human face, forever, but actually I think the most realistic image of our future is Dave Bowman in "2001", desperately trying to disable all the "AI” features in his computer after each upgrade.

@angusm

The Sirius Cybernetics Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser, which listens carefully, absorbs and analyses all the data, and gives you something that tastes almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

@faduda @angusm

And then reports your drink consumption habits to your health insurance company, highlighting the unhealthy ingredients which its AI secretly decided to add, which will make denying claims easier in the future.

@angusm yep. Saw my coworker doing this yesterday.
@angusm I just went through Edge again yesterday. The fact that all these creepy things are buried 4 levels deep and deliberately called vague names should be very telling.
@angusm Orwell plaidait pour un socialisme flexible, ancré dans les réalités des gens ordinaires. Il croyait que cette adaptabilité est cruciale pour que le socialisme ne soit pas perçu comme une idéologie déconnectée des préoccupations quotidiennes. Ensemble, œuvrons pour un socialisme qui répond aux besoins de tous ! ✊🌍 #Orwell #Socialisme #JusticeSociale #Inclusion
@angusm I have a vague plan, next time I upgrade my phone or computer, to time how long that takes me and send them an invoice for wasting my time. They won't pay it, but it will be fun.
@angusm also the gaslighting, "I had the greatest enthusiasm for the mission"
No you didn't.
@angusm @catsalad not even… the computer letting you know that it cannot do that is rather more polite than hiding, or even not having, a way to disable it…
@angusm Trying to disable the ai from underneath the boot, perhaps
@angusm Well the difference being: HAL could think, and didn't take three power plants pumping co2 into the atmosphere to power him.
@angusm have you people ever heard of linux
@RedFemboi They’re on fedi, so yes they have.

@angusm I think you’ll find that O’Brien said “he was more than a hero: he was a union man.”

Sorry.

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