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I remember reading about malware like this some time back. I tried everything I could to prepare but got vetoed at every turn by management. My idea was to do "
by mousepilot 5y ago
I remember reading about malware like this some time back. I tried everything I could to prepare but got vetoed at every turn by management. My idea was to do "pull" backups to a server, instead of "push" backups to shares, instead my boss's boss bought some commercial backup package that while ok, when it bombed a t-log chain, they blamed microsoft's implementation of native sql server backups, and of course was nowhere near my dream "pull" server thing, heck, I don't know if my idea was even valid, I'm not that smart a guy honestly, you gotta know your limits.
I wanted flash removed from my desktop, because being the intellectual slug I am, I google everything, like how to get the correct date and time. My previous job was as a convenience store clerk, and as I'm in the process of getting fired right this very week, I suspect it'll be my next job too. I was told by my boss's boss and his cousin the gaming guy who built servers that "our firewall blocks everything".
Of course, I got a text message one morning from my boss, while I don't remember the exact text, I remember it included the word "armagghedon". I came in to work carrying my uninfected laptop, and heck, my pc looked pretty normal except the icons had changed and sort of "doubled up", each second version contained the same message, you know the drill.
I'm an sql guy, I know I'm not all CS smart like everyone here but I gotta say it was obvious even to me what was coming, its like an enemy doing bombing raids in the next city over and people are still out there watering their lawns like nothing is happening. Friggin malware, I guess it pays well tho.
- JackFr 5y agoGPT-3
- mousepilot 5y agoheh interestingly enough, I've learned that machine learning is a trend in malware protection nowadays and rather than being signature based, it watches for malware like behavior. after the attack, we installed something like that, and it removed some of the very small vb programs I had put my heart and soul into.
- tnzm 5y agoThis guy, and not the amygdala-hijacked no-theory-of-minders that rolled in the other day?
- mousepilot 5y agoI managed to wire up sirc to a perl eliza implementation once. My cobol instructer in community college thought I was a pervert for doing so and in hindsight she was probably right, I think I only ran it once honestly. Nowadays I just run an old eliza in another terminal when I chat on irc and copy and paste between the two terminals, this gets rid of the ethical concerns as there is a human between the interface acting as a guard against AI run amuck so I think I'm good.
- tnzm 5y agoYep, you're alright. I like that you talk like a person and not like a copywriter. The lack of creative (or just non-dogmatic) thinking in this place is something else though. At times it feels like there's no human in the loop, which is disappointing because this is one of the few interesting forums remaining on the whole Internet... And even here's not immune to waves of people bulldozing over a nuanced conversation by parroting whatever ideological orthodoxy they've had to internalize to be able to successfully signal "lookit me HR I'm normaaaal". Fitting to mention Eliza - designed to be a shrink simulator IIRC? - sometimes I wish someone developed an AI to make people reflect on their blind spots in the rudest and most efficiently disruptive way possible. Thanks to the magic of AI, the ethical concerns of doing that to someone would vanish into thin air!
- mousepilot 5y agoI know what you mean (at least I hope I do), but after getting the boot from reddit (actually just 6 years of karma set to zero to effectively silence me) this place is fantastic by comparison, and I guess I'm new enough to have not been disappointed yet. I suspect that in time you're probably right, and I'll see that lack of mediocre thinking you speak of. The thing I have learned all too late in life is that on the average, people WILL dissapoint, its just that the current population here are such that maybe that disapointment will happen less often. Any place that inspires me to read more than write will get me hooked everytime tho. Yes Eliza the shrink, it was meant to be hooked to an irc bot lol.
- api 5y ago"Our firewall blocks everything." LOL. Firewalls are security theater.
- mousepilot 5y agothey added memory after the malware attack so its probably better now.