• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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    So going forward, social engineering will also be applicable to some computers themselves instead of just the users.

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    Scammers won’t need to social engineer grandma into giving out her SSN, they can just ask her AI many times and eventually, it will spit out absolutely everything.

    Interesting Defcon presentation about how AI is a security nightmare:

    DEF CON 33 - Exploiting Shadow Data from AI Models and Embeddings - Patrick Walsh

    https://youtu.be/O7BI4jfEFwA

  • TheProtagonist@lemmy.world
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    Meanwhile I am rather happy that my older (gaming) PC is not suitable for Win11 anymore, due to TPM (first I was rather disappointed). For my daily stuff I use a MacBook Pro and the old Windows PC will eventually become a Linux PC.

    The only problem is my work PC/Laptop, which runs on Win11 (my company wenn “all in” MS-Cloud and stuff), and which I occasionally also use to access some private files (which rest in an encrypted cryptomator vault, when not used).

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    What if I were to tell you the security risk was inside the OS all this time?

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      Bold to assume your registry won’t restore last known ‘good’ config. Linux mint with quickemu is a great way to use Windows if you have to.

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    Um, just in case, I’ll have you know that I name all my folders “trans porn”. It doesn’t mean anything in particular.

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      A volume of NTFS that is filled entirely by folders named “trans porn” would mean that there isn’t a single folder in there that contains 2 folders.

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        New organizing system just dropped. It’s just a chain of five thousand trans porn folders. The depth means something to the creator.

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            Did you post the wrong link? Yours is about “Maximum Path Length Limitation” and the number 128 doesn’t appear anywhere on that page. The max path length is 256 characters.

            Where did you read that “you can now have 128 files in your filesystem?”

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              If you want to encode information into only the depth of your recursive identically named folders, you have 128 different depths, one character for the name, one for the slash, per level. Yields about 128 possible levels. Leave one off for the last filename, 127.

              If we want to name our folders something longer than a single character, we can store less files. If we want to store our files on linux, by default we get 4096 characters to play with, so about 2k levels (unless we compile our own linux kernel with PATH_MAX set for this very specific purpose). If we run CIFS we may be able to reach up to 16k levels.

              That was my interpretation of OPs (admittedly bad) idea. Personally, I try to avoid implementing inodes as Church numerals.

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    My mom is a retired nursing instructor, I’ve picked up a few things over the years. This is going to be fun when a HIPA violation occurs via MS A.I.

    Honestly any industry where you see confidential information or proprietary information, could pose a massive threat to customers. Just knowing how much of a product your competitors are shipping to a location can tell you a lot of what they are planning.

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      I work in healthcare (maintenance) and our computer system is so fucking locked down, I’m sure CoPilot will have some similar way of being shackled. I was surprised to learn that the terminal isn’t locked, until I fooled around some and realized that every possible command was individually blocked.

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        I work IT at a university that does medical research, and the doctors and their assistants are by FAR the biggest security pit among all the demographics: staff, students, various faculties. You could tell them you were official password inspector and flash an ID written in crayon on a used napkin and they’d just “yeah whatever, here you go, stop bothering me”.

        They’d get chewed into paste by their directors after the inevitable happened and their compatriots would learn NOTHING.

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        Nah, why get rid of it if you can get exclusions for just AI, like they are doing for other stuff like copyright.

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          Yeah keep the law around in case you need to weaponize it against an individual, but ignore it for corporations. The modern solution!

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            Yep. Waiting for the day I pull up to the dispensary to find it surrounded by ICE vans.

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    Planning on spending a months wages building a monster rig that runs Windows 11?

    Cool. When it’s done just take whatever your CPU, GPU, RAM is and reduce the number by 50-75%. Have fun.

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    Only 10% of Microsoft revenue is Windows, they are trying to squeeze money out of the personal data of users.