AlexAndScripts

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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
Or Remote Access Trojan.
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
I think this is a situation of "the perfect is the enemy of the good", or in this case, the better. Nobody is saying that would be a perfect system, just that it would be a hell of a lot better.
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
Fair, though in practice they would join in anyway - China would be going for them next. Better to fight with the US than alone.
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
You can also avoid targeting people who already support you. Or, in the case of Cambridge Analytica's brexit manipulation, identify those who have never voted before (using hundreds of indicators) and introduce them to politics... Thei
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
You'll happily mention it, and a human can find it if they look through your profile. ML will have a much harder time in comparison to going through some comments, all in a similar way, on a post where everyone is saying something abou
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
Is that difficult? Harder, but still quite easy.
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
That's awful... Why would it be done like that?
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
That's really weird, I did that multiple times in the last week and it's taken 5-15 minutes - albeit with a simple, plain JS, ~1000 loc extension.
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
Malware can also just read the saved passwords, or saved cookies, or keylog, etc, etc. If you've got malware, installing browser extensions is the least of your worries.
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
Signing should take about 5 minutes - the most I have had (with a simple extension) is 15. Publishing takes ages though.
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
Unless you make a robot... Or you connect some wires to the sensors for the joystick.
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
Yep... The news doesn't report on good things... That's pretty standard. It isn't just a left wing thing. I'm glad it's improving (though I'd like a source for those statistics), but the media not reporting on
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
No point testing both brave and chrome, as they use the same engine.
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
Because Google may not have your best interests at heart, but their engineers and security are above average.
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
IMO that's an issue with the law, not what they were doing. I don't see anything morally wrong with what the FBI did - I think they should have been able to monitor US citizens as well. Ofc, until the law is changed, it should be
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
More like killing 1 to probably save 5. They aren't going to stop at Kaseya.
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
No, as it says in the article, they understood the tech entirely. There is just a trolley-problem-esque debate about whether withholding the key to stop future attacks was worth it.
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
They were trying to do both. The attackers weren't going to stop with Kaseya.
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
That's just the trolley problem, as other commenters have said. This whole debate is, which is a shame, because it means we're unlikely to convince each other.
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
I suppose its subjective. In my opinion their job is to protect a whole nation (and, on a larger scale, the West)'s interests in the long run. If that means delaying the release of encryption keys in order to prevent future attacks, I
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
If that's your threat model: - You are fucked - You are fucked, and there is nothing you can do about it - The government won't care about some chassis check - The government will use methods that nobody else has even considered p
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
Yeah, and that's a shame. Hindsight is 20/20. At the end of the day though, they couldn't have known that would happen, and they made the right choice. The Kaseya hack was terrible - they were trying to stop that happening ag
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
Working to fix things in the long run. I don't see an issue here.
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
Unfortunately, criminals are in the habit of breaking the law...
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
I just checked out their Discord, they're panicking because the last published build is super old and looks bad. Probably best to wait a bit before trying it out.
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
It doesn't have the arguably sketchy crypto, it doesn't inject affiliate links into URLs, it doesn't use an engine built by Google, and it supports the open Web. The reason it supports the open Web is that Brave uses the Chro
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
... Shortly after, the entire power distribution network destroyed itself, modern nuclear power stations came close to a meltdown, and any devices still left on bricked themselves or set themselves on fire. If its any consolation, the intel
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
I actually much prefer this. Its only a small amount of CPU, negligible to your electricity bill, but it doesn't involve clicking every traffic light.
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
And that's why NK is so worrying: Not because their technology is any good, but because it only has to work once, and they might actually try it.
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by AlexAndScripts 5y ago
Western intelligence agencies?

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