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Can you imagine if AMD or Intel throttled your cpu if it detected you were working on "cybersecurity" or if you were designing a cpu?
by throwawayffffas 4mo ago
Can you imagine if AMD or Intel throttled your cpu if it detected you were working on "cybersecurity" or if you were designing a cpu?
- rvz 4mo agoOr if your "self-driving" system such as FSD / waymo slowed the car down once it detected you work in cybersecurity or at a rival automaker and you were attempting to reach the train station or the airport to make you miss a conference meetup.
- pocksuppet 4mo agoTrains made by Newag were programmed to brick themselves if they detected a non-Newag workshop was repairing them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38638865 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38638865 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38628635 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38628635 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38567687 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38567687 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530885
- loeg 4mo agoAnd that was correctly perceived to be illegal by antitrust regulators.
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- pocksuppet 4mo agobtw the best part of this story is that the train company googled "best Polish hackers", found a group who won a CTF, and this actually worked out for them
- dghlsakjg 4mo agoDidn’t uber catch a lot of shit for nerfing the app for people suspected to be enforcing the laws they were breaking?
- stackghost 4mo agoThere's no doubt in my mind they would if they could.
- mDyJzDPmBdG 4mo ago[dead]
- __dxtj__ 4mo agoIt would suck, but guardrails on new technologies like this aren't unheard of. It's like when consumer GPS used to stop working at very high speeds because they didn't want people to use it for missile guidance systems.
- loeg 4mo agoConsumer GPS is still disabled at high speeds. I would argue the analogy doesn't carry due to harm and error rate differences.
- h6d_100c 4mo agoYep a totally different use case and set of guardrails. There’s very little (not zero) consumer utility in GPS above say 15k feet AND 400 MPH or whatever the actual limit is. That’s basically tracking model rockets that are incidentally impacted and nothing else, from what I can think of.
- AnthonyMouse 4mo agoIt's also the sort of thing that has to have been thought up by someone with nothing better to do, given how ridiculous the premise is. You would have to assume the adversary is someone with the technology to build rockets, literally rocket science, but not the technology to build their own GPS receiver, which is simple 1970s radio technology? Worse than that, it's 20th century radio technology in the 21st century when everyone has access to FPGAs and SDR. The number of innocent people with model rockets or similar being negatively impacted by that rule is infinitely larger than the number of adversaries because the number of adversaries being impaired by it is zero.
- h6d_100c 4mo agoErrr I at least thought it would be easier to build a small, bad rocket than a precision GPS receiver. But I am not an expert.
- h6d_100c 4mo agoOr if GPU companies detected you were trying to train a model and injected intentional numerical errors.