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If you read the proposal, this is for providing automated defences against social engineering attacks - eg: phishing. It's incredibly benign. That's not how it

If you read the proposal, this is for providing automated defences against social engineering attacks - eg: phishing. It's incredibly benign. That's not how it's presented on Elon's twitter post, certainly. The replies are just layers and layers of conspiracy theories.

chrisco255 2y ago
That sounds quaint. Why was it awarded to Reuters, a British/foreign news organization that supposedly hires journalists to report unbiased information? What expertise would they have in preventing social engineering attacks?
- jauer 2y ago
  Reuters builds software for a variety of fields and maintains datasets that would be useful in identifying if, say, an email with an invoice purporting to be from a specific company aligns with the invoicing practices of that company. It would be more accurate to compare that side of Reuters to LexisNexus, Wolters Kluwer, or perhaps Bloomberg.
  - egberts1 2y ago
    Apparently Experian does a far much better job giving credit scores to Americans than Thomas Reuters does against criminal immigrants.
- imadethis 2y ago
  It was awarded to Thomson Reuters, the parent company. They do a lot of work in risk management and fraud detection, so they have a lot of expertise.
  - egberts1 2y ago
    How's that working so far? Millions of illegal immigration, emptying of foreign prisons into America, development of apps to help navigate illegals into their US destinations, pacifying social media of the abovea? Thomas Reuters apparently is helping against America ... so far.
    - Two4 2y ago
      Turn off Fox News dude - you're severely lacking perspective of your own country. Everyone outside of the US media sphere(or rather spheres - there's two) laughs at your news media and how entrenched misinformation has become.
      - egberts1 2y ago
        Unlike you, I make an effort to know the who, how, when, where, what, and why: https://github.com/egberts/immigration https://github.com/egberts/immigration
        Two4 2y ago
        You've made a diagram showing statistics of immigration encounters, and from that you deduced that prisons are being emptied into the US? Bit of a stretch. The diagram is nice, but you're missing the point: the picture being painted for you that you're trying to prop up is false.
        egberts1 2y ago
        I would like to see you paint a better diagram of the INS workflow
        Two4 2y ago
        You continue the miss the point, I suspect on purpose.
        egberts1 2y ago
        Then be a purpose, not a naysayer or a denialist, unless you get paid to do so.
        murdles 2y ago
        Title 42 was the main culprit of the border encounter explosion, it was used as a temporary solution to the 'asylum seeker' problem. It turned into catch and release, even the CBP agreed this was an issue because the recidivism rate was so high. That ended in May of 23' and now the only problem is working through asylum claims. Idk why everyone misunderstands the problem at the border so much. As well as most of the people crying about this problem are unaware that Trump shot down the border bill which would have enabled officers to close up cases much quicker than judges. So do you even have a point here?
  - chrisco255 2y ago
    How come they didn't detect the fraud and abuse going on in the government?
    - imadethis 2y ago
      Were they hired to do fraud detection for the US government? Do you have any idea how businesses work in general? Or are you being obtuse on purpose? Come on, man. Have some self-respect.
- red-iron-pine 2y ago
  Thomson Reuters is an American-Canadian company. Thompson was founded in Toronto and bought Reuters in 2008. Most of it's leadership is Canadian, and to some degree American or British. This isn't "foreign", and it has a large presence in the US They also have a long, long history of providing services to the USG, including a lot of efforts in busting illegal immigration via shared media databases.
  - chrisco255 2y ago
    Thomson Reuters is Canadian. Reuters itself is based in London. It's not American.
Jimmc414 2y ago
I'm annoyed that I have to assert this, but I wasn't even aware of Elon Musk's tweet when I posted this. I found the entire site fascinating for entirely non-political reasons. I didn't know this information was publicly available.

chrisco255 2y ago

That sounds quaint. Why was it awarded to Reuters, a British/foreign news organization that supposedly hires journalists to report unbiased information? What expertise would they have in preventing social engineering attacks?

jauer 2y ago
Reuters builds software for a variety of fields and maintains datasets that would be useful in identifying if, say, an email with an invoice purporting to be from a specific company aligns with the invoicing practices of that company. It would be more accurate to compare that side of Reuters to LexisNexus, Wolters Kluwer, or perhaps Bloomberg.
- egberts1 2y ago
  Apparently Experian does a far much better job giving credit scores to Americans than Thomas Reuters does against criminal immigrants.
imadethis 2y ago
It was awarded to Thomson Reuters, the parent company. They do a lot of work in risk management and fraud detection, so they have a lot of expertise.
- egberts1 2y ago
  How's that working so far? Millions of illegal immigration, emptying of foreign prisons into America, development of apps to help navigate illegals into their US destinations, pacifying social media of the abovea? Thomas Reuters apparently is helping against America ... so far.
  - Two4 2y ago
    Turn off Fox News dude - you're severely lacking perspective of your own country. Everyone outside of the US media sphere(or rather spheres - there's two) laughs at your news media and how entrenched misinformation has become.
    - egberts1 2y ago
      Unlike you, I make an effort to know the who, how, when, where, what, and why: https://github.com/egberts/immigration https://github.com/egberts/immigration
      - Two4 2y ago
        You've made a diagram showing statistics of immigration encounters, and from that you deduced that prisons are being emptied into the US? Bit of a stretch. The diagram is nice, but you're missing the point: the picture being painted for you that you're trying to prop up is false.
        egberts1 2y ago
        I would like to see you paint a better diagram of the INS workflow
        Two4 2y ago
        You continue the miss the point, I suspect on purpose.
        egberts1 2y ago
        Then be a purpose, not a naysayer or a denialist, unless you get paid to do so.
        murdles 2y ago
        Title 42 was the main culprit of the border encounter explosion, it was used as a temporary solution to the 'asylum seeker' problem. It turned into catch and release, even the CBP agreed this was an issue because the recidivism rate was so high. That ended in May of 23' and now the only problem is working through asylum claims. Idk why everyone misunderstands the problem at the border so much. As well as most of the people crying about this problem are unaware that Trump shot down the border bill which would have enabled officers to close up cases much quicker than judges. So do you even have a point here?
- chrisco255 2y ago
  How come they didn't detect the fraud and abuse going on in the government?
  - imadethis 2y ago
    Were they hired to do fraud detection for the US government? Do you have any idea how businesses work in general? Or are you being obtuse on purpose? Come on, man. Have some self-respect.
red-iron-pine 2y ago
Thomson Reuters is an American-Canadian company. Thompson was founded in Toronto and bought Reuters in 2008. Most of it's leadership is Canadian, and to some degree American or British. This isn't "foreign", and it has a large presence in the US They also have a long, long history of providing services to the USG, including a lot of efforts in busting illegal immigration via shared media databases.
- chrisco255 2y ago
  Thomson Reuters is Canadian. Reuters itself is based in London. It's not American.

Jimmc414 2y ago

I'm annoyed that I have to assert this, but I wasn't even aware of Elon Musk's tweet when I posted this. I found the entire site fascinating for entirely non-political reasons. I didn't know this information was publicly available.