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The fact the bug bounty program is private and requires you to apply and be accepted first is also sus especially when the scope is the desktop app anyone can download.

The author of this article is an AI industry promoter and lobbyist. Just read through his substack which was the first red flag. He's on Substack. The author has a history of making misleading claims about the environmental safety and efficacy of AI. This guy is going to need some pom-poms to cheer any harder for the AI industry.

Would you care to explain in what way his claims have been misleading? Because I have read all of his articles and attacked his math and his sources, and so on, and I haven't found them misleading at all. The biggest way I've seen him accuse of being misleading makes the exact mistake he responds to from Joshi in [this piece](https://blog.andymasley.com/p/replies-to-criticisms-of-my-ch...).

We don't need to take sides though. It's fairly easy to find some of the papers and whether they were referenced in the Benn Jordan video or not, and whether they say what he says or the article author says.

I have generally enjoyed Benn Jordan's videos, but I have also been skeptical about the infrasound / hum stuff. It seemed like amplifying a fringe pseudoscience, much like the wireless and 5g stuff. So not that surprised to see a debunking article.


Still no idea what 'NASA Force' is but they do have a slick looking website.

But it was nice of these devs to make this tool that will tell you how to make your site hostile to AI agents and even check it for you.

Last month I wrote a dynamic malware analysis tool in Rust. About 20,000 lines of it. Process management, threading, memory management, the whole stack. I don’t know Rust

And I won't be using that...


They're not and they won't. I'm from genx and have a background in infosec. I don't agree that AI is the cause of this sudden surge in activity or if this is even a sudden surge. This stuff was always occurring if you were paying attention. It just making the mainstream news now.

Geopolitics is the cause of the recent uptick in activity. Many of these groups are state sponsored or just fronts for nation-states themselves. genAI just makes it easier for people further down the chain to go after low hanging fruit.

The most significant impact genAI is having on infosec is creating work for those people in infosec through vibe coding and turning untested AI systems loose on internal networks. genAI just lets developers and admins shoot themselves in the foot faster. genAI is an artificial intern.


For anyone that was into Star Control check out Endless Sky:

https://endless-sky.github.io


If anyone is that desperate for a secure random password here's a Perl one-liner I came up with that will generate random cryptographically secure passwords with all unique characters using /dev/urandom. No dependencies:

  perl -E 'while (open($_,"/dev/urandom") && $#p+1 != $ARGV[0]) { $_ = getc $_, push @p, grep !$u{$_}++, /[!-~]/g } say @p' 24

Minified:

  perl -E 'while(open($_,"/dev/urandom")&&$#p+1!=$ARGV[0]){$_=getc$_;push@p,/[!-~]/g}say@p' 42


I remember when your computer had 128MB of ram and could still run an entire desktop OS, web browser and chat app at the same time.


You're not my supervisor.


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