I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark, and guess one of the 17 countries whose infrastructure North Korea is accused of trying to hack is NOT China.
Go back half a century or so, and substitute "satellite" for "AI". The CIA let its efforts to recruit and/or train spies suffer to invest in various means of electronic information gathering. Training and recruiting is difficult, expensive and requires high-level decisions about the reliability of an agent and/or his information. This leads to a level of accountability many career civil servants don't necessarily want.
Unfortunately the change of direction meant the CIA lost its place as one of the top intelligence agencies in the Free World. I'm not saying it was horrible or incompetent, just not necessarily the place to go for a comprehensive picture of what was happening inside Russia, China and countless ugly little dictatorships.
So now so-called "artificial intelligence" is going to save the day?
It won't. The single best way to get intelligence is to have a lot of well-concealed, top level spies who have access to it. I doubt that will change for a long, long time.
Hacking the CIA Director doesn't necessarily mean your hack-fu is incredible, but it probably indicates that your social skills are pretty good.
That's what I want in an employee. I want somebody who can walk the walk well enough, of course. But my priority is that they make people who can help the company become more successful like and respect us. That's done through the people who speak for you. They don't need to be the brightest star in the sky. They need to be that bright person you would like to work with.
Sensible people would briefly use the servers to install a lightweight, hard-to-find bitcoin miner that stayed out of the way until the victim's computer was doing nothing, but still had an internet connection. Don't get greedy. Don't thrash the hard drive or run the graphics card 'til it melts. Just take a little sip here and a little sip there, and rely on having a lot of places to go for that little sip.
I bet something like that could stay under the radar for a long, long time.
Thank you for that, my friend. Extremely informative. And it makes my glad I don't live in the US, though I do live where there are a lot of aggressive, city-savvy raccoons.
Yeah, there is. Only a liar or a fool would deny it. Or somebody so young and ignorant they truly don't know what the centre looks like, and how far the goal posts have moved.
The government of the day might support anti-American causes, but US actions are doing a lot more to punish Iranians most likely to support First World views while leaving the shit-for-brains Ayatollahs unaffected.
The main reason why Iran is now a power in the Middle East is that Bush Junior, who as of January 2017 became the second stupidest President in American history, decided to get rid of Saddam Hussein and thereby eliminate the biggest check on the Ayatollahs' ambitions.
Iran is still America's best hope for a relatively secular counterweight to the real exporters of Middle East terror...their good friends the Saudis. A whole older generation still remember what it was like before the religious fanatics took over. And some of the really old ones remember what Iran was like before America installed the Shah.
That you were modded down to -1 for this sensible, insightful comment speaks very poorly for who Slashdot is allowing to moderate these discussions. I know there is now a strong right wing presence here seeking to either take over or wreck the site. It looks like they're winning.
I expect this remark to join yours at -1 if the creeps with the fake accounts still have mod points left.
You obviously don't know what "jaw-dropping" means. I'll explain: It means off-the-wall. Mind boggling. Crazy. Something jaw-dropping might be world changing, or it might be headed at Mach 3 for the scrap pile of failed ideas.
The point, which you missed, is that there was a time when anything like that probably originated in the United States. If it failed, the next potentially world changing idea would be coming along in prototype form a week later. The US used to be a hotbed of innovation and new takes on old ideas. Americans dared. Failure on one front just meant it was time to push harder on another.
Now most of what I see coming out of the US is metathesiophobic drivel from a bunch of hidebound, frightened old men who don't give a crap about anything but the bottom line of corporations that are screwing them without mercy.
Older readers might remember when anybody reading about this kind of innovation would automatically assume it was American made. If it didn't work out...oh, well, try something else. America was the place to go for risk-taking, awe-inspiring new technology.
These days, about the only jaw-dropping tech coming out of the America is weaponry, or at least military-related. Anything else is immediately swamped under a pile of whiny little douche bags yapping about "government handouts", while they try to pretend the rest of the free world isn't just moving on while the US turns itself into a Third World backwater.
And if having a sexbot that is more like a real person isn't bad enough, there's this: "Another bonus of the breakthrough is that people interacting with chatbots don't have to use a 'wake word' every time they speak during a conversation."
Great...so there's another incremental step toward "always on, always listening, get used to it". Not that I need to worry about a "wake word" interfering in a conversation with a chat bot. As long as I made the wake word "fuck", "shit" or "son of a bitch", the thing would never have time to tune out anyway.
Those of us who care about incidents like this are increasingly painted into a corner. The sheeple, on the other hand, just don't care. If they get a chance to trade their contacts list for 20 "reward points", they'll do it in a heartbeat. If you're on that list, too bad.
And companies like Panerabread continue to get away with this kind of nonsense.
Just once, I would love to see somebody whose family was affected by something like this put the entire lives of the offending corporation's board on-line. Names, addresses, tax returns, where their kids go to school...all of it. See how they like it when they face the same sort of exposure they inflict on others, with maybe a little interest added.
Forgive me if I can't help but ask whether a software system that has trouble figuring out where it is will do a fabulous job of driving itself (and its complacent victim) somewhere else.
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I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark, and guess one of the 17 countries whose infrastructure North Korea is accused of trying to hack is NOT China.
Go back half a century or so, and substitute "satellite" for "AI". The CIA let its efforts to recruit and/or train spies suffer to invest in various means of electronic information gathering. Training and recruiting is difficult, expensive and requires high-level decisions about the reliability of an agent and/or his information. This leads to a level of accountability many career civil servants don't necessarily want.
Unfortunately the change of direction meant the CIA lost its place as one of the top intelligence agencies in the Free World. I'm not saying it was horrible or incompetent, just not necessarily the place to go for a comprehensive picture of what was happening inside Russia, China and countless ugly little dictatorships.
So now so-called "artificial intelligence" is going to save the day?
It won't. The single best way to get intelligence is to have a lot of well-concealed, top level spies who have access to it. I doubt that will change for a long, long time.
Thanks for that. If possible, I'd give you points for "Informative".
...in a heartbeat.
Hacking the CIA Director doesn't necessarily mean your hack-fu is incredible, but it probably indicates that your social skills are pretty good.
That's what I want in an employee. I want somebody who can walk the walk well enough, of course. But my priority is that they make people who can help the company become more successful like and respect us. That's done through the people who speak for you. They don't need to be the brightest star in the sky. They need to be that bright person you would like to work with.
Sensible people would briefly use the servers to install a lightweight, hard-to-find bitcoin miner that stayed out of the way until the victim's computer was doing nothing, but still had an internet connection. Don't get greedy. Don't thrash the hard drive or run the graphics card 'til it melts. Just take a little sip here and a little sip there, and rely on having a lot of places to go for that little sip.
I bet something like that could stay under the radar for a long, long time.
Thank you for that, my friend. Extremely informative. And it makes my glad I don't live in the US, though I do live where there are a lot of aggressive, city-savvy raccoons.
1. Kidnap a pharmaceutical company CEO.
2. Lock him up with a rabid raccoon until they become properly acquainted.
3. Offer the exec access to the anti-rabies vaccine for $30 million deposited in an untraceable numbered bank account.
4. Profit!
This might be the scariest thing yet.
Maybe, at last, it is a strong enough reason for even the "sheeple" to finally walk away from this hideous data miner.
Nah...who am I kidding.
You need to educate yourself. Start with the word "Savak".
Nice try, kid, be careful your mom doesn't see you trying to start flame wars. She might take away your internet privileges or lock up your bicycle.
I guess you've somehow managed not to notice what's been going on around this site during the past year and a bit.
Not my problem.
But do try to open your eyes every once in a while. There's a nice big world out there, and you're missing it.
Yeah, there is. Only a liar or a fool would deny it. Or somebody so young and ignorant they truly don't know what the centre looks like, and how far the goal posts have moved.
The government of the day might support anti-American causes, but US actions are doing a lot more to punish Iranians most likely to support First World views while leaving the shit-for-brains Ayatollahs unaffected.
The main reason why Iran is now a power in the Middle East is that Bush Junior, who as of January 2017 became the second stupidest President in American history, decided to get rid of Saddam Hussein and thereby eliminate the biggest check on the Ayatollahs' ambitions.
Iran is still America's best hope for a relatively secular counterweight to the real exporters of Middle East terror...their good friends the Saudis. A whole older generation still remember what it was like before the religious fanatics took over. And some of the really old ones remember what Iran was like before America installed the Shah.
That you were modded down to -1 for this sensible, insightful comment speaks very poorly for who Slashdot is allowing to moderate these discussions. I know there is now a strong right wing presence here seeking to either take over or wreck the site. It looks like they're winning.
I expect this remark to join yours at -1 if the creeps with the fake accounts still have mod points left.
You obviously don't know what "jaw-dropping" means. I'll explain: It means off-the-wall. Mind boggling. Crazy. Something jaw-dropping might be world changing, or it might be headed at Mach 3 for the scrap pile of failed ideas.
The point, which you missed, is that there was a time when anything like that probably originated in the United States. If it failed, the next potentially world changing idea would be coming along in prototype form a week later. The US used to be a hotbed of innovation and new takes on old ideas. Americans dared. Failure on one front just meant it was time to push harder on another.
Now most of what I see coming out of the US is metathesiophobic drivel from a bunch of hidebound, frightened old men who don't give a crap about anything but the bottom line of corporations that are screwing them without mercy.
Go fuck yourself with a broken bottle, you AC POS.
Older readers might remember when anybody reading about this kind of innovation would automatically assume it was American made. If it didn't work out...oh, well, try something else. America was the place to go for risk-taking, awe-inspiring new technology.
These days, about the only jaw-dropping tech coming out of the America is weaponry, or at least military-related. Anything else is immediately swamped under a pile of whiny little douche bags yapping about "government handouts", while they try to pretend the rest of the free world isn't just moving on while the US turns itself into a Third World backwater.
"Netflix Pulls Out of Cannes"
So this year the Netflix "big splash" will occur somewhere else.
Many advocacy groups have come out against the bill, saying that it undermines essential internet freedoms.
Of course it does. That's the fucking point.
It's not easy, but training is available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U90dnUbZMmM
Don't thank me. I live to serve.
And if having a sexbot that is more like a real person isn't bad enough, there's this: "Another bonus of the breakthrough is that people interacting with chatbots don't have to use a 'wake word' every time they speak during a conversation."
Great...so there's another incremental step toward "always on, always listening, get used to it". Not that I need to worry about a "wake word" interfering in a conversation with a chat bot. As long as I made the wake word "fuck", "shit" or "son of a bitch", the thing would never have time to tune out anyway.
Which might explain why I didn't say that.
None.
Those of us who care about incidents like this are increasingly painted into a corner. The sheeple, on the other hand, just don't care. If they get a chance to trade their contacts list for 20 "reward points", they'll do it in a heartbeat. If you're on that list, too bad.
And companies like Panerabread continue to get away with this kind of nonsense.
Just once, I would love to see somebody whose family was affected by something like this put the entire lives of the offending corporation's board on-line. Names, addresses, tax returns, where their kids go to school...all of it. See how they like it when they face the same sort of exposure they inflict on others, with maybe a little interest added.
It is a poor farmer who slaughters his sheep when he has no market for the meat and wool.
Forgive me if I can't help but ask whether a software system that has trouble figuring out where it is will do a fabulous job of driving itself (and its complacent victim) somewhere else.