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"A hacker has breached and stolen customer data from TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal and other messaging apps to the U.S. government to archive messages, in c/cybersecurity@fedia.io

[–] Dss@infosec.exchange 7 points 3 months ago

@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org who in their right mind would trust a secure messaging app "modified" by the Israelis!?

"A pseudonymous coder has created and released an open source “tar pit” to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and in c/cybersecurity@fedia.io

[–] Dss@infosec.exchange 1 points 6 months ago

@laurelraven We had cable internet, 30 years ago in Preston. 30mbps and it was far faster than the 750mbps we have now!
A few years ago the average webpage was larger than the whole of Doom. What they are now, who even knows?

"A pseudonymous coder has created and released an open source “tar pit” to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and in c/cybersecurity@fedia.io

[–] Dss@infosec.exchange 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org they seem to repeatedly and endlessly hammer certain pages on sites, too, for no reason. Some of the stories on here are horrendous - openAI &tc effectively DDOSing entire sites!

"At the start of 2024, OpenAI’s rules for how armed forces might use its technology were unambiguous. in c/cybersecurity@fedia.io

[–] Dss@infosec.exchange 1 points 8 months ago

@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org Because that's where the big money is. And also, the "other side" will be doing it at pace - have you seen the swarm of robot-dogs-with-guns that China has under voice control?