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@tinker gravelly Vermont accented voice I am, once again, asking you to encrypt all the things.
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@cR0w@infosec.exchange but that begs the question, how do you stick your passwords under Copilot? Microsoft has clearly not thought this through!
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social finally, they can read the "no pooping on front lawn signs", that's great!
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@mttaggart 1995 called, it wants its cleartext browser password file back. I thought edge was based on Chrome? Obviously with the secure bits taken out....sheesh.
Just read an interesting #AI article.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/
"Necessity is the mother of invention" the saying goes. Maybe we should reflect on the many nuanced meanings of necessity, it doesn't just mean that there is a need, necessity can suggest reduced resources (penury, poorness), and it is this kind of necessity that drove the PC revolution in the 80s.
It looks like the lack of necessity for the US tech concerns is causing a serious lack of innovation. They claim to be at the cutting edge, but with endless financial resources there seems no true pressure to innovate.
The Chinese are working from a "do more with less" position and combined with their investment in academia it seems to be paying off.
Restrictions on tech exports to #China is, I'd guess, likely only to increase innovation there.
Interesting times.
Sputum coats key caps
Fevers salty sweat stings eyes
Sick hacker still life
AI and the erosion of human trust.
I am noticing an interesting effect, namely that trust between colleagues and departments is being eroded by the practice of communication partners dumping all communications into LLMs.
The LLMs then act as a sort of partisan expert, undermining trust between communication partners.
For example, one Depts. LLM is used for Legal advice to challenge the Legal department's decisions or a Communication Department reinterprets IT's missive dealing with a technical problem.
And this isn't just interdepartmental communication, it is happening for interpersonal communication in a work environment too.
Fascinating.
With Immigration Tribunal Judges in England and Wales considering using Copilot to generate „Skeleton Judgements“, I Wonder how Long before there is an appeal on the grounds that the tool is only to be used for Entertainment purposes?
As a political manifesto, just doing stuff people need is considered radical....
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/may/18/heres-a-list-of-things-zohran-mamdani-has-done-in-just-four-months
I quite liked the song with the man in the burning sauna. #esc
The question appears to be; "Should humans be allowed to code?"
Hups, a new exchange Zero Day just dropped.
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-42897
Mitigation available. No Patch.
Mail today from Progress Share file that they are under attack. Anyone got more Infos?
I've been looking into various "Freedom Index" scoring structures and given the massive expansion of #Flock, #Fusus and Co. I'd like to see these Indices score negatively for a high occurrence ratio of surveillance that is retrospectively reviewed or administratively authorized to that which is approved beforehand by an independent court.
#Freedom
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@tricaud@infosec.exchange me too, I particularly enjoyed the BBC's In Our Time podcast about his life https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/m002v19c