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"Identity protection company Aura has confirmed that an unauthorized party gained access to nearly 900,000 customer records containing names and email addresses...Aura is a consumer digital safety firm that sells identity theft protection, credit and fraud monitoring, and online security tools for phishing protection, positioning itself as an all-in-one service for online protection..."

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/aura-confirms-data-breach-exposing-900-000-marketing-contacts/

OK, I think I hit Claude's "garbage can full of rabid raccoons" side yesterday...

I have an old honeypot with just a couple of output plugins. I pointed Claude at it and also at a modern honeypot project with a large set of plugins and asked it to create a similar set for the older honeypot. The results were... "mixed", as the financial commentators say when the markets crater.

I don't know what exactly caused the problem. Maybe it was the need to examine and rewrite a multitude of files. I don't know.

At the start, it simply forgot to create half of the plugins. When I pointed this to it, it created the missing ones, but the results were, well...

The task was easy but not trivial. In some cases, only the honeypot name needed to be changed. In some (rare) cases, nothing had to be done, because the plugin just relays the JSON data sent to it by the honeypot. Yet in some cases the plugin needed a significant rewrite, because it outputs to a database with a different schema.

What Claude did:

1) Correctly changed the honeypot name in some plugins that needed that.

2) Didn't bother even changing the honeypot name in some plugins that needed only that.

3) Didn't rewrite the plugins that needed rewriting because they were outputting to a database with a different schema.

4) Completely rewrote 2 plugins that barely needed touching. And I mean completely. The result wasn't more efficient, it wasn't just full of bugs - it was "WTF is this shit?!" kind of result. I had to scrap it completely and replace it with the original source.

There are a couple of other tricks you could try if have any doubts that the voice you are conversing with might not be human.

You could, for example, ask it to scream.

Many Al-voice programs struggle to speak outside the normal range, unless they have been specifically trained to, said Nicoletti.

I asked ChatGPT to do it and it told me it couldn't.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241122-ai-deepfakes-is-there-something-special-about-the-human-voice

Looking for videos and written material for #gunicorn and #django

boosts welcomed and appreciated.

FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE is now available.

The FreeBSD Project has announced the release of FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE, the fifth release from the stable/14 branch. FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE is available for multiple architectures and can be installed via ISO, USB, VM images, cloud platforms, and OCI containers.
Download and release information:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.4R/announce/

Thank you to the Release Engineering Team and the many contributors who make each release possible.
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DEF CON 34’s theme is ‘Agency’. We’re focusing on self-determination in our use of tech. Charting our own course and helping others do the same.

Let’s start moving our valuable attention to tech that supports our agency. Let’s find the places we can help and choose to act.

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Visual style guide and homework assignments coming soon!

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