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Frederic Jacobs

China targeted and might have held for months access to the infrastructure used to do wiretaps on the AT&T and Verizon networks.

This is a huge "told you so" moment for the cryptographic community that has been saying that such infrastructure does present a huge risk to national security. China reportedly used this capability for intelligence collection, obviously without a warrant ...

wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s

China targeted and might have held for months access to the infrastructure used to do wiretaps on the AT&T and Verizon networks.

This is a huge "told you so" moment for the cryptographic community that has been saying that such infrastructure does present a huge risk to national security. China reportedly used this capability for intelligence collection, obviously without a warrant ...
5 October at 7:51 | Open on mastodon.social
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Richard

@fj There don't seem to be any articles on this outside the WSJ (yet?), and the lead paragraphs visible over the paywall are heavily caveated with "potentially" and "might" so it is still unclear what was actually breached. This could be something serious, or it could just be Chinese teen hackers able to submit unverified wiretap requests for "Deez Nutz" which are ignored. It is currently the silly season for generating political drama, so use appropriate skepticism until more details emerge.

5 October at 13:01 | Open on mastodon.social
Jenny 🏳️‍🌈

@fj this whole incident just makes it obvious why those systems should not exist in the first place.

5 October at 13:06 | Open on chaos.social
Hans-Cees

@fj May I please tap into your device
5 October at 14:15 | Open on mas.to
Frederic Jacobs

🇦🇮 Anguilla, an archipelago of 15 094 inhabitants, gets 20% of its government revenue from .ai domain registrations 🤖
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4 June at 7:05 | Open on mastodon.social
Frederic Jacobs

The Gemini video (youtube.com/watch?v=UIZAiXYceB) was indeed deceptive and very heavily edited.

"the voice in the demo was reading out human-made prompts they’d made to Gemini & showing them still images. That’s quite different from what Google seemed to be suggesting: that a person could have a smooth voice conversation with Gemini as it watched and responded in real time to the world around it”

Nevertheless, Gemini appears to be better than GPT-4 at reasoning tasks bloomberg.com/opinion/articles

The Gemini video (youtube.com/watch?v=UIZAiXYceB) was indeed deceptive and very heavily edited.

"the voice in the demo was reading out human-made prompts they’d made to Gemini & showing them still images. That’s quite different from what Google seemed to be suggesting: that a person could have a smooth voice conversation with Gemini as it watched and responded in real time to the world around it”

8 Dec 2023 at 7:05 | Open on mastodon.social
wilander

@fj My understanding is that the version that’s better than ChatGPT 4 is Gemini *Ultra* which has not been released and has no release date. That’s another thing people have been deceived by apparently. I fell for both.

8 Dec 2023 at 7:23 | Open on mastodon.social
ineiti

@fj Hah, thanks. That explains why I couldn't get google bard to solve my son's matura exams :)

I was really curious on how Gemini works on this. Because ChatGPT-4 is quite astonishing: you drop a PNG of the exam, and it starts solving. With some errors, but you still get the gist on how to solve it.

Google bard couldn't even read the image. And it fails on my "Print a JSON of the planets of the solar system with their size".

But with @wilander 's post I found the following URL. Which states that the current Bard is "Gemini Pro". And the "Gemini Ultra" is coming sometimes next year.

androidauthority.com/gemini-ul

@fj Hah, thanks. That explains why I couldn't get google bard to solve my son's matura exams :)

I was really curious on how Gemini works on this. Because ChatGPT-4 is quite astonishing: you drop a PNG of the exam, and it starts solving. With some errors, but you still get the gist on how to solve it.

8 Dec 2023 at 7:37 | Open on ioc.exchange
Frederic Jacobs

The government of « la patrie des droits de l'homme » is speeding up its move to autocracy.

After the repeated application of Article 49.3, threatening to remove civil society organizations [1], passing laws to allow algorithmic surveillance “for the Paris 2024 Olympics” [2], using a motorized repression brigade (BRAV-M) to beat down protesters [3] ...

[1]: digit.site36.net/2023/04/06/af
[2]: lemonde.fr/idees/article/2023/
[3]: francetvinfo.fr/faits-divers/p

The government of « la patrie des droits de l'homme » is speeding up its move to autocracy.

After the repeated application of Article 49.3, threatening to remove civil society organizations [1], passing laws to allow algorithmic surveillance “for the Paris 2024 Olympics” [2], using a motorized repression brigade (BRAV-M) to beat down protesters [3] ...

7 Apr 2023 at 8:42 | Open on mastodon.social
Frederic Jacobs

And of course, there is always an encryption angle.

Darmanin, French Minister of the Interior, is now calling for increased surveillance of encrypted messaging apps. Complaining that the wiretaps of phone lines are yielding diminishing returns, and that the same means as terrorism cases should be used against protesters.

#NotThisBullshitAgain mediapart.fr/journal/france/05

7 Apr 2023 at 8:46 | Open on mastodon.social
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