Gearoid O'Connor

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#Infosec, #Cybersecurity & #Defence. Kerryman, European, Irish, horses, sailor and all-round bon vivant. Tweets & rants are my own opinion. (Rick/Morty).

Hahahahah. Holy shit.

So Zoom is irrevocably turning their entire network into a training data set: https://hackers.town/@devlogic/110843380784157782

EVERY "public service" company is now attempting to extract value. They're all going for it. They're gonna burn it all down to try and turn AI into a financial exit. Search engines, communication backbones, social networks, everybody.

My read is they're all shit terrified of the impact AI will have and aren't long-term thinkers, so their only short term play is to burn it all down and exit ASAP. Never mind that what they're burning down is, uh, the entirety of our infrastructure. They don't care.

devlogic (@[email protected])

This can't end well. I've already sent emails to our exec and data security departments about this. Zoom terms of service now allow training AI on user content with no opt out https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/ §10.4(ii): 10.4 Customer License Grant. You agree to grant and hereby grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights required or necessary to redistribute, publish, import, access, use, store, transmit, review, disclose, preserve, extract, modify, reproduce, share, use, display, copy, distribute, translate, transcribe, create derivative works, and process Customer Content and to perform all acts with respect to the Customer Content:(ii) for the purpose of product and service development, marketing, analytics, quality assurance, machine learning, artificial intelligence, training, testing, improvement of the Services, Software, or Zoom’s other products, services, and software, or any combination thereof #zoom #machinelearning #llm #ai

hackers.town

Welcome new twitter expats!

I know for a lot of you this is a temporary migration, and you'll head back once they fix the problems.

But before you go back to twitter, take this thought with you: the owners of twitter don't just push their agendas at you. You already know that, and probably think it doesn't affect you. But what you don't see is how much stuff is gone there now. You don't see who's gone, or what views aren't there anymore

Every time I fly into #Dublin and look at the sprawl of the city and despair. The same people who bemoan traffic and high rise also bemoan the cost of housing. Dublin needs to build up and embrace the benefits of pockets of density. Ironically this can create land for more public spaces.

Your periodic reminder:

If you don't get a raise every year that's at least as much as the inflation rate, that's a salary cut.

Well there's the #Christmas #blowout staying at the in-laws in data driven illustration. 😭​Back on the journey with a new year. 😎​👍​#fitness #WeHackHealth
Thoroughly enjoyed and recommend #GlassOnion on @Netflix Really witty and clever satire and much more than a comedy murder mystery. #movies
If you haven't yet listened to #Room5 on #BBCRadio4 I thoroughly recommend it. Wonderful programme that tells of medical issues in a very accessible first person story format. Find it on #BBCIplayer. #podcast #BBC #Radio #Medicine
Rumors suggest that the New York Times’ refusal to acknowledge anyone else’s reporting make it arrogant, offensive and wrong.

"Computer scientists from Stanford University have found that programmers who accept help from AI tools like Github Copilot produce less secure code than those who fly solo."

Looks like there will be a market for AI vuln remediation!

https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/21/ai_assistants_bad_code/

Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code that's more likely to be buggy

At the same time, tools like Github Copilot and Facebook InCoder make developers believe their code is sound

The Register
Well #SecretSanta has delivered. With the new house in the #NewYear I am looking forward to getting some hens and raised beds going. Definitely at the Dreamers end of the spectrum for now! Much #DIY to do first. #SelfSufficiency #TheGoodLife