cynicalsecurity 

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IT Security, cynically aged. Maths. Some nukes. Four languages. Longing for Symbolics and Connection Machines. Keeper of Ancient Computing Lore. Ⓐ
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First 0day1986

@cynicalsecurity don't worry! the train shed side is just as detailed 💜

https://tech.lgbt/@erisceleste/115152554904327782

@dch

@dvl Yes, and can we please fix the experience during an update so that it doesn’t just spew out certificate errors and indicate in a more positive manner that the freebsd-install sequence completed successfully and give the next steps in a clearer way? I’m not a newbie — FreeBSD since the mid-90s. But my goodness the UX has always been rough. We can do better here for the newcomers and the oldsters alike.

All is well and dandy until one of the LLMs is used to reverse engineer and modify something like, say, Microsoft Word.

Then all Hell will break loose.

Ridiculous pointlessness, a very short recursive story:

Someone uses Copilot heavily to write a document.

You slog through it trying to make sense of the spaghetti sentences.

You send the edits back.

You get a table of comments, requested changes, etc.

You start working on it, emitting blasphemy like an angry volcano.

The proverbial lightbulb sparkles.

This is Copilot, let’s Copilot back.

You feed the table and the document, the edits just flow.

You send it back.

Copilot-written Copilot-edited, Copilot-reviewed.

Rinse & repeat.

That’ll be an extra 0.1C added to global warming.

Train in Blizzard, Philadelphia, PA, 2010.

All the pixels, but look both ways before crossing them, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4347814086

#photography

Opposite my office is a small tiling company.

Today one of the workers was offloading defective tiles and chucking them directly into the skip.

With flair, style and clear enjoyment.

Envy.

With the LLM labs raising prices - I’ve been working on a great new set of tools. They’re called “Integrated Development Environments.” They work with formal specification languages, and a series of language processing models to turn that formal language into working software. Best of all, there is little to no cost and they can be hosted entirely locally - even on very old hardware. And they work with the platforms you support today. All without usage limits.

#Synchrotron control room, Yerevan

Physics Institute, Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory, Yerevan, Armenia
In 1956, the Soviet physicist Artem Alikhanian began the development of the Armenian accelerator, known as #Arus. His aim was to construct the most powerful electron synchrotron in the world, capable of accelerating particles to nearly the speed of light around a closed loop.

#photography
#Russia
#science
#physics
#Armenia

@sj chaotic alignment was lacking so I created a chart
POC collection of AI found bypasses / technique variations (updated regularly over the coming weeks): https://github.com/persistent-security/month-of-bypasses
GitHub - persistent-security/month-of-bypasses: Proof-of-Concepts for Detection Engineering Purposes Only

Proof-of-Concepts for Detection Engineering Purposes Only - persistent-security/month-of-bypasses

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