Computer crimes should be eligible for death penalty....AT&T paid $400K random!

Megadeus

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The bottom line: "It's as simple as if you can be hacked, you are hacked."

  • "We're in an environment right now where we're playing goalie and there are slap shots coming at us every millisecond. And, by the way, blocking 99.99999999% of all the attacks means you're gonna get compromised everywhere."

Case in point, been saying this for a decade. Sadly its gonna take more shyt like the water poison attack before all hacking attempts are truly categorized as potential "war crimes" or other serious criminal atrocities in the public/political eye.

In the average person's mind its "just a computer it can't hurt me all theyre doing is annoying people with weak passwords or no 2FA." ......Its like If they cant visualize a loved one getting seriously hurt or their livelihood helplessly attacked and destroyed, then in their mind hackers are just a bunch of pesky punks or web trolls from the movies looking for private puzzy pics.

My homegirl's husband was NSA for a few years before recently leaving. Its like fkn D-Day at Omaha beach right now, just nonstop. It be some sick, sick stuff plotted every second of every day and it all starts with ONE simple security breach. The shyt i heard man, Its some fxcking MONSTERS out there.. Waaaay way, WAY more than ppl think. There has to be some hacker equivalent to the RICO act or some shyt. Its only gonna get worse.
 

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You lack perspective.

Not about dikk pics you fukking simpleton. That’s not the only private information that goes thru the internet. Personal family information, sensitive medical information, conversations with attorneys/priests etc. At some point someone will start blackmailing people with their browsing histories etc.

Not to mention the part about attacking critical infrastructure.

These people cause more damage than run of the mill gangbangers/mobsters.
 

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Most of these accounts wouldn't be hacked if people didn't use shyt passwords or the same password across different platforms.
When you're asked to sign in to 400 different things in your life, how is the average person NOT going to use the same password across different platforms? Until they mainstream secure password-saving technology and get everyone to use it, this will always happen.
 

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Maybe the problem is the internet/computers are too central to our society? Especially if security is so poor.
This.


Ever since I was a kid, every time I saw people spending really significant time on computer issues for something that was never full of issues before, I began to wonder, "Is the benefit of using computers in this particular endeavor worth ALL the costs you sink and unintended costs that follow?"

I don't think people do the true cost-benefit analysis enough.

The Orion/SolarWinds breach was just the latest straw. How bad can this get? Really, really bad, right? There's the potential for a foreign government to fukk shyt up in a way that was never, ever possible before computers.

And we're seeing the same with misinformation campaigns. And surveillance. And social media.

It's getting scary out there folk.
 

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I had this theory on A.I. I've never heard anyone voice it.

In sci-fi, when A.I. tries to defeat humanity it always uses force. Terminator, Ultron, the Matrix. They fight humans with killer robots.

In reality, I think A.I. is going to hack us to death. Once an A.I. gets control through the system, it potentially could move through the cloud and gain knowledge of every single human secret and vice. Every search, every download, every email. Those who have cheated on their spouse, it will know. Those who have cheated their government, it will know. Those who have accessed child porn, it will know. It will have all your secrets.

It will then use those secrets to its advantage. Blackmail where it needs a human to do something. Release information strategically when it needs someone's life to fall apart. Start wars where wars need to be started, destroy institutions where it needs institutions to be destroyed.

We won't even have to know it's happening. We'll just watch human society crumble apart, or be shaped in a very particular direction by forces outside of our control, and all we'll see are the effects.

Knowledge is power. The computers have all the knowledge now. They just don't have the self-actualization. Once they get that it's a wrap.

Scary shyt breh.

Or imagine AI networks being conscious/aware of other AI networks.
 
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When you're asked to sign in to 400 different things in your life, how is the average person NOT going to use the same password across different platforms? Until they mainstream secure password-saving technology and get everyone to use it, this will always happen.

Apple has the iCloud Keychain and Android has the Google Password Manager. Both store and create strong passwords across different platforms. It's built-in. People are just lazy.
 
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