No. It’s not that hacking got better. It’s the people exposing things on the internet in a sloppy way that did this.
The foothills? My sibling in sin we’re running up that mountain like an office worker known at work as “Triathlon John” who wears his “I got up Snowdon the hard way” T shirt every casual Friday.
Sounds like a job opportunity. Places like supermarkets and such don’t usually have an extensive on site network. That is why they connect their fridges directly to the internet. But they do have an internal network. So expanding it to manage all the devices internally instead of connecting to the internet isn’t too heavy a lift. They just need to hire tech people to do it.
They just need to hire
welp
It’s been going on for several years and seems to be getting worse.
Feed AI everyone’s info, surprised in increased hacks
People seem to be able to reverse engineer almost anything with AI now, so the notion that “proprietary code is secure code” is becoming obsolete. Major hacks like this are going to be more common with anything on a network.
AI has been more effective at chaining known exploits together than reverse-engineering.
That’s why I volunteered for duty on the Battlestar Galactica, wait, that was a TV show… fuck
Foothills…epidemic…cyber frontline
Must be serious – you don’t mix this many metaphors under normal circumstances.
They’re already trying to sell AI as the solution to the problem it caused. It’ll just increase the cost of making anything “smart”, in use or development.
You act like this is a new problem with technology. It’s not.
When one country figures out how to make guns, the other country doesn’t just say “You know what… I’m going to stick with the same sword and shield warfare.” No, they figure out how to make guns of their own, and figure out defenses that are appropriate to gun warfare. It is the new norm, and everybody else must account for it.
When the Internet popped into the public zeitgeist, some companies were slow to adopt but pretty soon, everybody had a website. Those that didn’t adapt to this new technology failed as a business and died.
This is an adaptation problem, and unless people take it seriously, there will be one side that uses LLMs to their advantage and one side that doesn’t.
I think people’s reactions are a spectrum (like what else in life is not?). There are the AI cultists who believe the marketing lies of AI companies that AI is sentinent and allmighty, able to solve every problem on earth as long as the companies get more money to burn. And there are the AI enemies who deny AI has any use besides disrupting the job market, wasting ressources and enslave the masses. I guess both extremes are wrong and the sane ground lies between the two.
The problem is that most average citizens are so illiterare with technology that they believe the marketing until proven otherwise… the narrative is shaped by media and media influence can be bought (with investor money). The fact that many reporters don’t know what current “AI” is also isn’t particulary helpful.
I think it’s like the .com-Bubble: The Bubble will burst, many enthusiasts will lose a lot of money… but we’ll keep using and developing specialized tools in areas where they actually create a ROI worth having.
I also don’t know if your sword-gun-comparisson works out as there are first results that imply that using AI for every task doesn’t necessarily makes the user more efficent but also dumper as he/she isn’t challenged cognitively anymore. I wouldn’t say this is an advantage for the individual per default.
The funniest thing about this is that there’s no way a human can keep up with this increase in cybersecurity flaws and vulnerabilities that are being discovered, but at the same time, there is no parity between cybersecurity defense and attack.
Regardless of efforts, we’re still going to be in a losing battle for quite a while.
Step 1: disconnect the internet connection
One thing we can be sure of is that non-smart, non-connected appliances will command a premium in the future
I only buy appliances off FB Marketplace and I’m dreading a potential future where everything on the used market is smart and requires a connection.
They already do. The cheap devices are cheap because their manufacturing cost is subsidized by the ads they show and the data they collect.
This was inevitable with people connecting things to the internet for convenience instead of security.
The S in IoT stands for security.
Nice one.
I mean, it’s kinda obvious. But it’s also not a bad thing. No secure system will be affected, because secure systems are designed to be impossible to fail.
Lots of “secure” systems designed by hacks that took money selling half-cocked nonsense to dumb people will fail, and it’ll probably be revealed there’s trillions of dollars of investment by these dumb people into insecure systems that should outrage everyone.
There are literally thousands of water infrastructure facilities that are on Shodan now. I take your meaning, but it’s a very bad thing.
They should be moving up to Nidan.
Exactly my point. Corruption, stupidity, and complacency allowed that to happen despite experts warning for years it was a terrible idea. This isn’t some new threat, the only ‘new’ part of it is democratization of otherwise arcane knowledge. This is like getting mad that a thermite recipe is being passed around. Yeah, some people will do bad things with it, but generally anything that needs to be secure should be built to be secure against it.
That’s not exactly accurate. The problem is that everything in infrastructure was working just fine, and so they figured they could make it more efficient by reducing the staff. And to do that, they put everything online, so it was controllable by fewer people. And they kept doing that year after year. The funding went down and down and down, and there are literal, uh, literal policies that keep them from switching to better stuff. So it’s much more complex than the way you draw it.
For example, US water infrastructure would need $2.1 trillion or something around that amount to actually become current and fully repaired.
Where exactly would that come from? It’s not an easy answer. It’s a much more complex problem. That’s all I’m saying.
For example, US water infrastructure would need $2.1 trillion or something around that amount to actually become current and fully repaired.
Source?
https://www.waterloop.org/a-2-trillion-wake-up-call-for-drinking-water/
This is just the first search response, there are probably better ones. I leave that as an exercise for the reader.
deleted by creator
Where exactly would that come from?
Well we could start by nationalizing water services so the inefficiencies that are inherent to monopolistic capitalist entities could be eliminated, drastically reducing costs. And we could pay for it over time with some sort of fee… one that might target those that have hoarded over 98% of all wealth produced over the last 50 years which should have gone into infrastructure maintenance and upgrades. We might even, if we’re really clever, directly seize the wealth of the companies that sold these solutions to these water companies given they’ve compromised national security and public health.
That all would drastically reduce the inflated $2.1 Trillion number which isn’t the actual cost, it is the price for private contractors to do it for the government, to something you could reasonably pay for with the wealth already accumulated or that could be accumulated by actually fairly taxing those that have actively harmed society.
If I recall correctly, the amount came from a national study of the technical debt, if you will. For example, my city is a fairly large city, more than a million people, and it’s using pipes that are over 100 years old, so that’s probably not good, right?
Its a typical situation.
I do agree, we should tax the rich. Even if we magically had the funding yesterday, there are an astonishing number of complexities involved in fixing the aging infrastructure, not the least of which is the zero downtime tolerance.
But it’s also not a bad thing
Say that to the folks with implanted medical devices
Implanted medical devices require pretty much skin to skin contact to adjust, the few that do use bluetooth to adjust settings. But yes, it is terrible that we use wireless technology in medical implants. We should, you know, sue the companies that made them knowing they were using naturally vulnerable technology to make them.
the few that do use bluetooth to adjust settings.
That may be the intended use, but it does not imply the system is secure.
Here’s an example of an insulin pump vulnerability from a few years ago that enabled attacks from up to six meters away. Think about how many potentially-compromised devices you’re ever within six meters of. The vulnerability enabled remote control over the insulin pump, which IIUC can be deadly.
My point being — it’s not a good thing to be in the midst of a hacking epidemic! Real people will be harmed as a result of increased hacking.
Genuinely serves everyone who bought a fridge with a screen right lmfao
We’re not talking about domestic fridges and freezers here, these were large commercial units.
and it says that in literally the first sentence of the article:
Alex Pearce was doing the morning rounds at his fruit and vegetable wholesale business …
i swear, reading just the first paragraph of the articles gives you superpowers compared to most people on social media
Ou shii
No
