a2decrow

6 ms·

31.
by a2decrow 9y ago
They don't have any legal authority to spy on everyone either. Didn't stop them and after it went public, did anything meaningful happen about it? Our German chancellor, Angela Merkel, went from "this is unacceptable and can&
32.
by a2decrow 9y ago
But they don't. Autism is the product of having a differently wired brain than a non-autist does. It's something you're born with, not something you can get later. Certain medications used by pregnant women can result in ch
33.
by a2decrow 9y ago
Doesn't come with lobbying money, though, so in the end it wouldn't make much of a difference.
34.
by a2decrow 9y ago
The doctors' PC can run just fine on an isolated network and doesn't have to be connected to the internet.
35.
by a2decrow 9y ago
> what if there was some device attached to that workstation keeping someone's machine on? Then it shouldn't be connected to a non-secure network / the internet in the first place.
36.
by a2decrow 9y ago
And this is the reason why you don't centralize critical infrastructure and don't put yourself in vendor lock-ins. Makes me wonder how many of those infected machines didn't have to be connected to the internet in the first
37.
by a2decrow 9y ago
Seeing how 2(?) billion people are using Facebook, it's obvious that most people either don't care or don't understand the implications behind giving away their privacy. The Echo is a neatly packaged surveillance device that&
38.
by a2decrow 9y ago
There are still a few sane people left that won't deliberately plant a surveillance device in their homes.
39.
by a2decrow 9y ago
If this gets more people to think about and work on safe AI (because as it stands almost nobody does), I'm all for it. If the safe AI problem isn't solved by the time AGI arrives, I fear ending up with something equivalent to Skyn
40.
by a2decrow 9y ago
The two aren't mutually exclusive and building something practical is pretty much the norm where I'm studying at.
41.
by a2decrow 9y ago
Interesting. I began working on a application firewall like this a little over 6 weeks ago for my thesis, as I was mildly disappointed there wasn't a GNU/Linux version of this (yet) and I considered it an interesting topic to dive
42.
by a2decrow 9y ago
https://www.heise.de/tp/features/How-NSA-access-was-built-in... Note the date - 04. September 1999.