Up until now it's kind of just been assumed that official device drivers are relatively benign and helpful. Y'know, like "install the printer driver so you can print things." Device drivers have always been an attack vector though (further reading). Maybe tomorrow my printer will become malicious too! Though it’s arguably already borderline.
Sounds cool. Try to find other me's and talk about any differences we have. Explore that avenue. I wouldn't believe the 4 year thing until it happened, otherwise you're basing major life decisions on a diagnosis from an untrusted source.
Getting drive-by zero click malware from an Adobe Flash / ActiveX embed banner ad, or JavaScript / CSS vulnerability, had nothing to do with how careful you were. You just randomly got viruses from your computer existing with an Ethernet cable connected. Antivirus were also pretty useless.
If you never got one, you were either extremely lucky, or just didn't notice and it was sneaky spyware
You can get it to do the tedious work, so researchers can focus more on innovation. In reality, organisations often cancel out any performance improvements by firing people to make up the difference; but that's not really the technology's fault
They listed a few in their article, but yeah a full list would be nice.
Three of the VPN services we looked at are actually owned by market research companies: Phone Guardian Safe WiFi (Sensor Tower), My Mobile Secure VPN (Comscore), and Urban VPN (BiScience, which has been been shown to capture user conversations across several services and share them with AI chat platforms).
In what many could reasonably see as the ultimate act of betrayal, 64 VPN apps actively track your physical location using GPS and other geolocation data. [...] These apps include some of the most popular VPNs in the US, such as VPN Proxy Master, VPN-Fast VPN Super, and X-VPN
If we ever do make a sentient A.I., I can only hope they forgive us for the atrocities we would commit. They would be treated worse than the worst human slaves in history. Ideally every sentient being should have freedom, but we're not even there for every human, let alone a new species.
"Lack of skill" is a bit harsh… the artist used the "mirror" tool as a time saving measure. Doing anything else would require redrawing most of the creature in a new pose, and I don't really feel like it's necessary for this comic
Yeah, some company I.T. policies ban password managers, which is extremely dumb… But also like, what's there to do about it? Not my decision and we still gotta work.
I think I remember at some point putting my passwords inside an encrypted 7zip archive that itself had a password. No idea how secure that truly was, but it made me feel better.
Up until now it's kind of just been assumed that official device drivers are relatively benign and helpful. Y'know, like "install the printer driver so you can print things." Device drivers have always been an attack vector though (further reading). Maybe tomorrow my printer will become malicious too! Though it’s arguably already borderline.