Everything is about to “go dark”
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I’m coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in my hometown of Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explaini…
  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 days ago

    I see absolute no problems in this. If they lose backdoors, others will, too. Making systems more secure is a very good thing. Uncontrolled secret services of all kinds of countries as well as criminals and hacker losing chances to break into systems is an absolute win for everyone else.

    • moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.comEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      I do see a problem in people deferring their opsec decisions to AI systems run by corporations in the US.

      That’s like lazy copy-paste-into-your-terminal-as-root, but from an NSA honeypot website that installs a backdoor

      • Treczoks@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 day ago

        Well, anyone doing stupid things like that deserves a complete system failure and data loss. No mercy for such ineptitude.