bgwalter

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by bgwalter 8mo ago
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by bgwalter 8mo ago
Professors elsewhere can verify the proof, but not how it was obtained. My assumption was that the focus here is on how "AI" obtains the proof and not on whether it is correct. There is no way to reproduce this experiment in an un
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by bgwalter 8mo ago
The FSF also ignored the SaaS revolution. They put out the AGPL but did not really market it or convert FSF projects to it.
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by bgwalter 8mo ago
DDT has been banned, cigarettes are all but banned, leaded fuel has been banned. Nuclear energy has been banned in Germany. The industry wanted all of that and did not get its way after some time. You can ban "AI", make companies
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by bgwalter 8mo ago
It is everywhere now. Musk censors his X responses, Grok defends billionaires, the all-in podcast has only positive comments in suspiciously perfect English since a month or so. Previously they allowed criticism. (And hardly anyone mentio
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
Modern cryptography should also not allow users to activate a sketchy linked device feature by scanning a QR code: "Because linking an additional device typically requires scanning a quick-response (QR) code, threat actors have resorte
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
Accidentally replying in plaintext is a user error, scanning a QR code is a user error. Yet one system is declared secure (Signal), the other is declared insecure. Despite the fact that the QR code issue happened in a war zone, whereas I ha
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
People who do not wish to get killed may care.
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
How can I express in a non cynical way that I think LLMs are theft? Even if courts decide in the future that they think it is not, it is still a protected opinion in the same manner that some people do not recognize the overturning of Roe
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
Yes, it is odd that this criticism is only allowed for gpg while worse Signal issues are not publicized here: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/rus... Some Ukrainians may regret that th
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
I no longer respond if you use Simple Sabotage Field Manual tactics. EDIT: The submission was flagged from the front page seconds after this reference.
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
Of course you omit the QR code issue in your response, just like tptacek tried to deflect in the other subthread after his Cryptocat objection was refuted.
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
The tangent explicitly talks about generic messaging services. Whatsapp and Signal have more money than gpg. Thinking about it more, it is not even a tangent, because TFA says: "Use Signal. Or Wire, or WhatsApp, or some other Signal-pr
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocat#Reception_and_usage "In June 2013, Cryptocat was used by journalist Glenn Greenwald while in Hong Kong to meet NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for the first time, after oth
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
How does this help people who are not following this issue regularly? gpg protected Snowden, and this article promotes tools by one of the cryptographers who promoted non-hybrid encryption: https://blog.cr.yp.to/20251004-wea
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How much the richest people made in 2025(qz.com)
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
Google gives a pittance even for full ossfuzz integration. Which is why many projects just have the bare minimum fuzz tests. My original point was that even with these bare minimum tests ossfuzz has found way more than "AI" has.
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
It does not matter what purported categories buffer overflows are in when manual fuzzing finds 100 and "AI" finds 5. If Google gave open source projects $100,000 per year for a competent QA person, it would cost less than this &qu
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
Maybe they should hire Mario Nawfal for their announcements: """ BREAKING: AI FOUND VULNERABILITY IN FFMPEG! After decades of human struggle, humans no longer call the shots. Pwno decided to take the leap. They did not just f
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
This is another drawback of security research, but one that had already existed before "AI" with ossfuzz. You basically cannot commit in public to the main branch and audit and test everything 3 months before a release, because an
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
The list is pretty short though for 8 months. ossfuzz has found a lot more even with the fuzzers often not covering a lot of the code base. Manually paying people to write fuzzers by hand would yield a lot more and be less expensive than
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
It is clear that Nadella has no clue what he is doing in 2025 and just wants to make another big splash with "AI". If you force employees to dedicate 100% of their thinking power to agents, prompts, "AI" meetings, workin
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
Another AI entrepreneur who writes a long article about inevitability, lists some downsides in order to remain credible but all in all just uses neurolinguistic programming on the reader so that the reader, too, will think the the "AI&
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
It is insane how pro-industry people argue with corpspeak and LLMspeak and are still getting serious responses. This is where open source discussions have arrived now, and no one dares to tell them to STFU because of their corporate sponsor
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
Someone is downvoting everything again. It seems to be a cronjob, always around the same time.
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
He was "AI" director at Tesla from 2017: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-ai-director-hiring-autopilot... He gave a glowing recommendation for camera-only FSD in 2021: https://thenextweb.com/news&#x
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
Then replace "finished" with "production software".
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
This is from the man who has no finished open source projects and who recommended camera-only FSD to Tesla, which he also did not finish. The actually productive programmers, who wrote the stack that powers the economy before and after 20
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
https://logic.inc/ "Ship AI features and tools in minutes, not weeks. Give Logic a spec, get a production API—typed, tested, versioned, and ready to deploy."
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by bgwalter 9mo ago
Tesla has the government and a vast propaganda apparatus behind it: https://fortune.com/2025/03/20/howard-lutnick-pumps-tesla-st... “If you want to learn something on this show tonight, buy Tesla,” Lutnick t

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