Pretty much anything related to non-user data transparency from any corporation, particularly social media platforms, will generate an "input out of range" error on any basic Bullshit Detector.
While the idea of obfuscation-as-security has been around a long time, given the pervasive lack of data privacy, relax a little and have some fun with it. Large-scale data mining for profit and massive security breaches pretty much leave everyone who uses the internet wide-open to exploitation, so we might as well make a game of it.
I have four "identities" I use for various purposes, all fictitious to one extent of another. I feed them so much bullshit and chaff that pretty much any "profile" on me comes off as straight out of Lewis Carroll. The Mad Geezer meets the Cheshire Hacker.
Be creative. It's fun. Whole books could be written about ways to load up any given profile with conflicting and contradictory information.
You know it's working when you see ads for running shoes and wheelchairs at the same time.
At least they're glaringly up front about it, unlike the US TLA's relying on phony FISA courts, hardware OEM back doors, and so on to accomplish the same thing.
1. Birth a startup up in SoMa to build a secure all-in-house hardware and software phone/tablet for the gov. Valley angels and unicorns rejoice. Pelosi gets pork.
2. Put the chip fab in Rochester, NY so Schumer gets pork.
3. Put assembly plant in Louisville so McConnell gets pork.
4. Market it as "made is USA". Trump gets ego gratification.
The professional excellence and utter dishonesty of both the Russian state intelligence apparatus and the American deep state make any informed, verifiable determination impossible. The spooks and their masters are pretty damned good at their obfuscation and disinformation games.
Rather than hitch oneself to a favorite political or ideological bandwagon, I prefer to adhere to a finely-crafted and well-tuned cynicism that demands treating this and every other spy versus spy story as low comedy.
It makes for passable diversion as I read such stories while comfortably relaxing in Diogenes' pithos.
This is why I have always used America Online. I don't trust this Netscape Navigator thing or Chrome. I remember reading on alt.computers.users that AOL is the only safe, secure way to use a computer.
Plus, I really love those wave files in the chatrooms, like {S alphabetsucks and {S zuckerbergishitler.
Slashdot Mirror
It's not April 1 any more, is it?
Masters of the Universe: We object to backdoors and weak encryption!
Government: Aw, that's cute. Here's some money, now shut up and behave.
Right, it is a huge difference. One achieved fame for being elected head of the Tories, and the other gained her fame honestly.
What's the UK going to do do enforce a "summons"?
Scotland Yard is too busy punishing bloggers and cartoonists for "hate speech", and both of their soldiers are already busy in Afghanistan.
They could always threaten to withhold all Tesco coupons, but Zuck's butler shops at Whole Foods.
Or maybe have an MI6 bot campaign spam-post swimsuit pictures of Teresa May to his personal timeline until he complies.
Engineers are the only talent the USA has to trade for decent NHL players.
The incentive is better beer for the engineers and sex without snow shoes for the hockey stars.
So is MM fishing for attention from Nokia or Linus Torvalds?
I'm betting on Linus. What is sexier than a raging, beer-fueled Finnish programmer?
Planet X is out there. Art Bell told me so.
Before he died. Or from beyond the grave. Hard top tell which.
Tess will find it. Elon Musk will explore it, and find Elvis at last.
I wonder if there are crop circles on Nibiru. Tess will tell.
Drat, time to feed the unicorns and mermaids again.
Anyone who allows IoT in their business deserves the consequences.
Really.
The only secure IoT devices are the ones you never install.
I misread the title at first glance. Some Freudian node in my addled old brain saw it as Google testing self-destructing Gmail.
If Gmail were to suddenly vanish, I would have to re-think my atheism.
Stop making sense. It upsets the narrative.
Bingo.
Pretty much anything related to non-user data transparency from any corporation, particularly social media platforms, will generate an "input out of range" error on any basic Bullshit Detector.
Bugger actual defense needs. The military-industrial gravy machine senses big $$$ in peddling an "AI Gap" to Congress.
I can just see Lockheed and Raytheon "partnering" with IBM, MIT, Alphabet, etc. to "deliver 21st-century AI technologies to our gallant warfighters".
While the idea of obfuscation-as-security has been around a long time, given the pervasive lack of data privacy, relax a little and have some fun with it. Large-scale data mining for profit and massive security breaches pretty much leave everyone who uses the internet wide-open to exploitation, so we might as well make a game of it.
I have four "identities" I use for various purposes, all fictitious to one extent of another. I feed them so much bullshit and chaff that pretty much any "profile" on me comes off as straight out of Lewis Carroll. The Mad Geezer meets the Cheshire Hacker.
Be creative. It's fun. Whole books could be written about ways to load up any given profile with conflicting and contradictory information.
You know it's working when you see ads for running shoes and wheelchairs at the same time.
It's what they do.
At least they're glaringly up front about it, unlike the US TLA's relying on phony FISA courts, hardware OEM back doors, and so on to accomplish the same thing.
Give the Devil his due.
Oh, right. Do you really think AI builders are really going to publish their algorithms for examination under the transparency banner?
You greatly over-estimate the altruism of businesses and governments.
They're pretty much screwed anyway, with hopeless debt, a dead-end job if they can find one, and a society that is unraveling before their very eyes.
Really, what have they got to lose?
Unless they're going into law, medicine, or high finance, how much bleaker can their future be?
Body dead too long? Too bad. Get a warrant.
Druggie too stoned to give consent? Get a warrant.
Want to access my phone FOR ANY REASON? Get a fucking WARRANT.
Comcast has more lobbyists and lawyers than you. You'll never win. Ever.
Unless you just want to prove the point for argument's sake.
Then I bid you godspeed, sir.
1. Birth a startup up in SoMa to build a secure all-in-house hardware and software phone/tablet for the gov. Valley angels and unicorns rejoice. Pelosi gets pork.
2. Put the chip fab in Rochester, NY so Schumer gets pork.
3. Put assembly plant in Louisville so McConnell gets pork.
4. Market it as "made is USA". Trump gets ego gratification.
5. Profit!!!
Any want is moot. Clearly, everybody already is bad.
Who's being naive, you self-righteous little twat?
The professional excellence and utter dishonesty of both the Russian state intelligence apparatus and the American deep state make any informed, verifiable determination impossible. The spooks and their masters are pretty damned good at their obfuscation and disinformation games.
Rather than hitch oneself to a favorite political or ideological bandwagon, I prefer to adhere to a finely-crafted and well-tuned cynicism that demands treating this and every other spy versus spy story as low comedy.
It makes for passable diversion as I read such stories while comfortably relaxing in Diogenes' pithos.
I never made it past Kierkegaard in college. Existential nihilism can set you free.
This is why I have always used America Online. I don't trust this Netscape Navigator thing or Chrome. I remember reading on alt.computers.users that AOL is the only safe, secure way to use a computer.
Plus, I really love those wave files in the chatrooms, like {S alphabetsucks and {S zuckerbergishitler.
Or just wait for the next windows update.
Could it be that we're quibbling over semantics? Let's examine a word.
What is "the universe"? What if it simply means "everything, everywhere, all the time". What magicians call "all that is, seen and unseen"?
"Everything" is an all-inclusive infinitive. Logically nothing can not be included in everything.
That leaves us with the scientific quest to explore everything, and thereby exclude nothing.
Just a rambling muse before coffee...