ich weiß ja nicht, wie @kuketz das heute sieht, aber ich glaube nicht, dass sich seit seiner schon etwas älteren Artikelserie zu Virenscannern so wahnsinnig viel zum Guten verbessert hat. Empfehlt Ihr als @bsi denn wirklich die Nutzung solcher Software, die häufig mehr Angriffsfläche als Schutz bietet? #Virenscanner#Snakeoil#ITsec
Edit: just to be clear: most anti-malware products deployed major security issues like open backdoors on many Millions of computers in the past. It's a #snakeoil business where users pay for a false feeling of security and tend to take higher risks. Almost all companies that got #ransomware had anti-malware in place.
This isn’t just about letting people believe what they want if it’s not harming anyone. It is one thing for someone who sincerely believes that water has a memory to go and take homeopathic cold pills, it’s another when someone is not well-informed on the subject and thinks they’re getting regular, effective pills from a regular doctor. It would be even worse if the “doctor” prescribing crystals and #snakeoil and black salve is the only doctor in their area.
When I log in to X, Facebook, instagram etc, the majority of my “micro targeted” ad content is for beer belly concealing garments, and male hair loss solutions.
An odd thing about me is, for a late middle aged white guy, my genetics really rolled high for those buckets. My waistline is still stubbornly where it ended up in my mid twenties, and I have an uncannily full head of hair, barely yet greying.
I suspect the ad-tech works about as well as the self-driving car tech.
A wee peek at #Wikipedia: Michelle #Mone admits she lied about her qualifications to get her first job. She claimed that Julia Roberts wore her #Ultimo bras, which wasn't true. Mone illegally #bugged the office of one of her managers. A #tax avoidance scheme at one of her companies was described by the Chancellor George #Osborne as "morally repugnant"- Mone denied wrongdoing/...
#Mone has been literally a #SnakeOil saleswoman, marketing pills she falsely claimed were effective. On becoming a peer her company stopped publishing public training #accounts. A never completed #Dubai residential development was priced in #Bitcoin. Describing herself as "one of the biggest experts in #Cryptocurrency and #Blockchain", she launched a #crypto venture "ended in a fiasco", according to the #FinancialTimes/...
Remember #Musk announcing that Tesla’s goal was to demonstrate a cross-country autonomous drive, Los Angeles to Times Square in New York, “without the need for a single touch, including the charger,” by the end of 2017?
Well, that didn't go well. Now #Tesla is recalling those cars because, well, they seem to kill people who believed him.
NOTE: Musk also said that some of those going to "occupy Mars" are going to die.
it now has a fun/dumb html5 countdown spinner, and redirects you to a random snakeoil bullshit site. for now, a joke etsy listing and some google queries for norse and crown sterling.
what other complete horseshit snakeoil security vendors/products are out there that I can add?
@happyborg
This applies to public LLMs. Not ones developed for business purposes. It isn't inevitable.
So why do they do it? Because giving the unsavvy user an answer they find really plausible, the answer they want, makes them really impressed with the capabilities of the LLM. And that amplifies #AIhype and ultimately enables the narrative that this is an amazing technology we must all adopt ASAP
Apparently there are 'health coaches' on ticktock etcetera who can 'help you train your brain not to need Prescription Glasses', & also 'Mens Health Coaches' who can advise in 'Naturally boosting your Testosterone Levels', & also whatever the hell they are doing (communally & in person via zoom!) in the attached Link [NSFW]
There really is a sucker born every minute isn't there ? 🤷🏾♀️🤦🏿
“For Services provided on Mars, or in transit to Mars via Starship or other spacecraft, the parties recognize Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities,” says SpaceX’s satellite Internet Starlink company, in its terms of service."
The statement is a lie; it's governed by an appropriate nation, in accordance with the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, but #SpaceKaren wants no laws.
Small scoop here: In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious people throughout the tech industry has led some security experts to conclude that crooks likely have succeeded at cracking open some of the stolen LastPass vaults.
"...the researchers learned the attackers frequently grouped together victims by sending their cryptocurrencies to the same destination crypto wallet.
By identifying points of overlap in these destination addresses, the researchers were then able to track down and interview new victims. For example, the researchers said their methodology identified a recent multi-million dollar crypto heist victim as an employee at Chainalysis, a blockchain analysis firm that works closely with law enforcement agencies to help track down cybercriminals and money launderers.
Chainalysis confirmed that the employee had suffered a high-dollar cryptocurrency heist late last month, but otherwise declined to comment for this story."
@briankrebs I am sorry, but their logic at the most basic level is extremely flawed. Since there is no social contract connected to their "assets", their identity doesn't matter when things go wrong. It then becomes a variation of the computerized voting / electronic ballot conundrum: Anonymous high-stakes transactions are extremely vulnerable to theft and tampering. There is no quick or slow fix for that.
But hey cryptobugs, buy the techno-tinctures, split your assets and do your digital calisthenics. You see? We have nice, simple nostrums we'll keep repeating, because we are the Church of Computers Can Do Anything Any Way We Want (because the pretty clicky icons and line-go-up hype says we can).
A fundamentally new type of computer with software stack to match might possibly change that situation. But what I'm seeing from the cultists are a bunch of impressive-sounding but misapplied measures like the tech found in hardware wallets (which might as well be called "speed bumps").
"Musk [...] was a signatory on the March open letter calling for a pause in any further AI development."
"[...] A few days later, Musk purchased about 10,000 GPUs" 🤣 😂
So much about #Musk's intentions, which some of his naive (?) scientist cosignatories appeared to believe were related to the fate of humanity.
Can't say "dumb as a brick" any more. Sam Altman (of #OpenGPT fame) thinks "intelligence is a fundamental property of matter" 😮 . So if bricks are intelligent, why can't LLMs be intelligent too?
#Altman, a Stanford CS dropout, says that a future system will "cure all disease, help address climate change, radically improve education, make us 10-100 times more productive". And all that without any doubt.
Holy smokes, this is a fantastic article on Ars Technica about Google's #passkeys support, and includes succinct descriptions of common #WebAuthn flows. Kudos to you, @dangoodin 🥳
And the promoted comments are perfect send-ups of all the bad takes that people love to bring up in the comments section of anything talking about WebAuthn and passkeys 👨🍳 💋
@iamkale@dangoodin I tried to read up on the (crucial) details how the #End2EndEncryption is actually implemented. According to the linked article, everything that is "protecting" the private keys is the screen lock PIN of the smartphone. Am I missing something here, or is this really just a piece of #Snakeoil ?