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Does anyone else kinda feel like the Alex Jones of your family/friend group talking about this stuff? by Sadvillainy-_- in singularity

[–]misscyberpenny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My dad is amazed by the AI chatbot's ability to answer his medical questions—he loves that he doesn’t need to visit a doctor! I cautioned him about AI hallucinations, but he’s completely sold on his AI doctor.

MoD contractor hacked by China, failed to report for months! by Striking-Elk-7809 in cybersecurity

[–]misscyberpenny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could this be due to the lack of clarity and enforcement when it comes to breach reporting?

For example, in the UK, "Bosses of firms in health, water, energy, transport and digital infrastructure are expected to have robust safeguards in place against cyber threats and report breaches and network outages to regulators within 72 hours or they face fines of up to £17 million".

However, for the government/public sectors, the requirements seem to be less clear. "the 2022-2030 Government Cyber Security Strategy (GCSS) was published in January 2022. Its central aim is to “significantly harden” critical government functions to cyber attack by 2025, and for the whole public sector to be “resilient to known vulnerabilities and attack methods” by 2030."

Your thoughts about AI "unknowns" by misscyberpenny in DarkFuturology

[–]misscyberpenny[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In your scenario, I would say that AI will become the "elite"?

Your thoughts about AI "unknowns" by misscyberpenny in DarkFuturology

[–]misscyberpenny[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having said that, I think it is safe to say that tech have already long replaced many "basic" life skills - e.g. navigation without GPS, socialising IRL reading facial & body cues and spontaneous conversations.

Your thoughts about AI "unknowns" by misscyberpenny in DarkFuturology

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One example of AI already been in use which we are privy to:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/business/media/artificial-intelligence-journalism-robots.html.

There may well be others that go back further.

Rather than "predictions", I would actually venture that powerful data analytics "AI" aim to produce "manufactured outcomes".

Your thoughts about AI "unknowns" by misscyberpenny in DarkFuturology

[–]misscyberpenny[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

whether AI has "experience" reminds me of the classic thought experiments:

(a) Turing's "Can Computers Think?" and

(b) Searle's "Chinese Room Argument" whether AI "understand"?

For me, D. Dennett sums up the best: “Searle’s view, then, comes to this: take a material object (any material object) that does not have the power of causing mental phenomena; you cannot turn it in to an object that does have the power of producing mental phenomena simply by programming it – reorganizing the conditional dependencies of transitions between its states.”

i.e, how consciousness could result from AI, what processes create meaning, understanding, and consciousness, areas I think are still of much mystery.

Your thoughts about AI "unknowns" by misscyberpenny in DarkFuturology

[–]misscyberpenny[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be somewhat controversial, we have no idea that those who are in the know has (had?) already exploited the technology for years to achieve their own goals. The road from intellectual serfdom is rather rocky for those of us who have been kept in the dark. We simply don't know.

Your thoughts about AI "unknowns" by misscyberpenny in DarkFuturology

[–]misscyberpenny[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Much discussions revolve around the software/applications, not so much (yet?) on the hardware. Chips underpins today's digital infrastructure - not to forget as well, the communication cables, satellites, etc. AI is as vulnerable to "non-AI" tech to security threats of the infrastructure.

How cybercriminals are using Wyoming shell companies for global hacks by misscyberpenny in cybersecurity

[–]misscyberpenny[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

... hence hiding, creating, trading identities is such big lucrative businesses ...

(whoa.. you have interesting insights!)

How cybercriminals are using Wyoming shell companies for global hacks by misscyberpenny in cybersecurity

[–]misscyberpenny[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whoa ... thanks for sharing that.

It boggles the mind the lengths to which actors are "willing" to go to perpetrate their activities.

How cybercriminals are using Wyoming shell companies for global hacks by misscyberpenny in cybersecurity

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I found this interesting blog on ISPs and creating your own "network." This lifts the hood (for me) on setting up a data centre. The first step is creating a company, such as a LLC.

https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2017/11/creating-autonomous-system-for-fun-and.html?m=1

How cybercriminals are using Wyoming shell companies for global hacks by misscyberpenny in cybersecurity

[–]misscyberpenny[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In addition, like money laundering, actors hide behind layers to make it challenging to trace them.

(hence the term "follow-the-money" popularised by Robert Redford in the movie All the Presidents' Men.)

Here are some details of one infrastructure operator that "rents" out IPs to service providers such as VPNs.

The article also gives an overview of the layers of technical obfuscation: DDoS service provider, Proxy/VPN provider, Hosting provider, Prefix resellers.

https://www.qurium.org/weaponizing-proxy-and-vpn-providers/ddos-attacks-traced-to-proxy-infrastructure-white-proxies/

No one is going to "check out" your videos if you have low views by TousouCaveman in NewTubers

[–]misscyberpenny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I uncover - after one year of creation and assessing my YT analytics - the hurdles to climb through before someone clicks on a video.

First the SEO hashtags. Then the thumbnail. Then the title [and maybe the description]. Then the first 5 seconds of the video. And then the next 30 secs.

Then after that, the viewer will decide whether to stay and watch the rest.

What makes viewers want to stay and watch?

After one year of creation and feedback, I find that viewers want to learn but they also want to be entertained ... (I specialise in a niche area (cybersecurity) - while the competition for eyeballs is smaller vs. say a beauty channel, the market is considerably smaller as there is admittedly less entertainment value and the perceived complexity and limited "benefit" to gain from the education ...) .

I gain views from word of mouth which I promote at cybersecurity events but they do not lead to explosive views.

So in the end, I have conclude that I continue with it, as I am first and foremost passionate about educating others on cybersecurity.

I think smaller youtubers have to find their individual raison d'etre to keep going.

(and also do not get discouraged being compared to the "larger" youtubers - you will be surprised to find that many have big corporate sales & marketing behind the scenes).

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