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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot (infosec.pub)

submitted 5 days ago by umbraroze@piefed.social to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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[–] MalReynolds@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Again, weapons without human in the loop needs to be against the Geneva convention, yesterday. Or articles of war , something. This is a tractable problem, that needs attention, now, It will not end well and can actually be (mostly, by honorable armies) fixed.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Geneva convention can only be applied on the nations who are coincidentally, not going around breaking them willy-nilly.