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As I understand it there is often a lot of discourse that takes place between the hacker and the hacked - agreeing prices, haggling, proof of files etc. Yes mu
by ljf 5y ago
As I understand it there is often a lot of discourse that takes place between the hacker and the hacked - agreeing prices, haggling, proof of files etc.
Yes much can be automated but there is usually a human element to these deals and that costs the hackers money.
They also want to be careful to limit their hacks to companies their handlers are happy for them to hack. Go too wide and you risk hitting a company directly or indirectly linked to your state/handler/patron.
- dredmorbius 5y agoYou'd think a GPT3 / GAN could be created to handle much of that. It's a percentages game anyway.
- whimsicalism 5y agoWhy would you want GPT to handle multi million dollar negotiations? Sorta playing into stereotypes about engineers here.
- dredmorbius 5y agoScale. Perhaps not the largest groups, but the smaller ones, posssibly.
- sho 5y agoYou are correct. I have had the "pleasure" of going through the negotiation process before. There are even companies that specialise in it, and have DBs on who is a "trusted" threat actor (the industry term) who will actually honor the terms of the transaction or not. There are thousands, if not tens of thousands, of such deals done every year.