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
I’ll be killing that service asap
Never. Ever. EVER. INSTALLING. ELEVEN.
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).
What if I were to tell you the security risk was inside the OS all this time?
Step 1, delete Windows 11. Step 2, install Linux Mint.
Um, just in case, I’ll have you know that I name all my folders “trans porn”. It doesn’t mean anything in particular.
Transporners, more than meats the eye
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.
With Unicode, you can.
New organizing system just dropped. It’s just a chain of five thousand trans porn folders. The depth means something to the creator.
You can now have 128 files in your filesystem.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation?tabs=registry
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 shopping to a location can tell you a lot of what they are planning.
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.
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.
I have to use TaskManager now to disable co-pilot
I guarantee you they will solve it by lobbying to get rid of HIPA
Nah, why get rid of it if you can get exclusions for just AI, like they are doing for other stuff like copyright.
Yeah keep the law around in case you need to weaponize it against an individual, but ignore it for corporations. The modern solution!
Yep. Waiting for the day I pull up to the dispensary to find it surrounded by ICE vans.
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.
they got the idea from google, and samsung is doing the same.
Seems like a bad idea then. So obviously they’ll do it!
Only 10% of Microsoft revenue is Windows, they are trying to squeeze money out of the personal data of users.
It’s kind of amazing how much they’re willing to tear down in hopes of this “” incredible “” AI vision
“I see you are dual booting with Linux? I’ve reformatted that partition for you.”
One of the reasons why I never dual boot. Unfucking GRUB is not on my priority lists.
Only dualboot with windows on a separate drive, that hasn’t given me any issues in the past 5 years or so
Just make sure to unplug all non-Windows drives when installing Windows. Otherwise it can do weird things like making unilateral decisions on which exact drive it shoves its bootloader on. I’ve wiped my Linux drive when changing to another distro aaaaand the Windows bootloader was gone too. It really shouldn’t have been.
Yeah whenever I set up a computer with dual boot it’s always Windows first, then Linux. Windows assumes it’s the only OS that exists so if there’s something else there it just ignores it and writes over the boot thingy. Linux actually bothers to look for anything else that’s installed and works around it.
Same here. I have Windows 10 on a separate physical disk (sdb). I have Linux and GRUB on sda, so Windows has no idea that it’s not the only OS on my computer.
I had this happen before but not in recent times. Not sure if others have experienced the same.
For a while I had my bootloader on a single drive but I now have my Linux bootloader on /dev/sda and my windows on /dev/sdb and toggle it in the bios when I need to use Windows. I haven’t had Windows overwrite anything in a long time. Could be a coincidence though.
It’s mostly an issue when you have them sharing boot drives via partitions. If you keep them isolated to their own separate drives, Windows doesn’t tend to muck with things. It’s because Windows is bad about killing bootloaders, and automatically setting itself as the default in the boot order. So if you have it sharing a drive, it’ll nuke your boot. But if you don’t have them sharing a drive, and boot via a loader on the Linux drive, there is no boot loader on the Windows drive to nuke.
I’ve read that dual booting Windows and Linux can have temperamental quirks and I’ve had my share of them.
Now, if I’m doing that, Windows fs gets isolated and I refuse to even connect it to the internet. But, outside of a legacy automotive shop program meant for XP, I’ve not needed Windows for a couple years.
