Thinking about how for years teenagers and curious nerds were prosecuted and thrown in jail because poking at a web site was a clear sign of being a ☠️ CR1MIN4L H4CK3R ☠️

[lemay@mastodon.social]

Thinking about how for years teenagers and curious nerds were prosecuted and thrown in jail because poking at a web site was a clear sign of being a ️ CR1MIN4L H4CK3R ️

Now it's all like oh no! the computer did an oopsie! no one is to blame, nothing can be done! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[h0m54r@mastodon.social]

@lemay @cstross Yeah, enumerating phone numbers when there are no access controls was “exceeding authorised access”. But successive attempts to bypass blocks on scrapers is apparently fair game.

[onechrisn@social.vivaldi.net]

@lemay
That's one of the core functions of AI and of corporations in general. Spread out the blame and punishment so thin that it becomes meaningless.

[c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io]

@lemay it feels like yesterday they were charging journalists for computer crimes because they used View Source

[cyberquixote@infosec.exchange]

@c0dec0dec0de @lemay

that is the essence of holly jolly fascism

“Sorry you don’t have the clearance for this but i do!!! Im a massive piece of shit tho so imma use my power to deny you access”

[yeahyeahyens@det.social]

@lemay I know someone who hanged himself in his cell after being lured with a job offer in exchange for revealing the security vulnerabilities of the social media website he had scraped.

[jef@mastodon.social]

@lemay I was just looking at why my web server's loadav is high and I found a bunch of sites trying (failing) to fetch /etc/passwd tens of thousands of times each.

[yeahyeahyens@det.social]

@lemay The former CEO is still on cocial media; he spent years promoting environmentally friendly business practices and is now moving into responsible AI. How messed up it all is.

[philpetree@mastodon.social]

@lemay What's even funnier is that they're describing an AI that completely disregards orders, lies, steals credentials, and knowingly and with intention escapes sandboxes.

[instantiatethis@keyboards.social]

@lemay this reminds me of an IT director that said we couldn't do a lan party at a gaming event because it could lead to hacking (literally what??). Teenager gamers can't be trusted

[carpetbomberz@mastodon.online]

@lemay

Indeed Aaron Schwartz, didn't do half or quarter what the AI companies are doing exfiltrating people's intellectual property. Man where's the justice in this world.

[mr_briney@universeodon.com]

@onechrisn @lemay it's a popular strategy in the military as well
https://disruption.institute/fellows/cian-westmoreland

[moonshine_fox@meow.social]

@lemay every time some comment praising AI data training, I think of that kid who had his life destroyed because of a couple of Metallica albums

[lnsy_dev@mastodon.social]

@lemay Yes, but the people who do all these things go to the same Jeffery Epstein parties

[ketmorco@fosstodon.org]

@lemay Aaron Schwartz was thrown in prison because he did what AI does on the daily

[markotway@mastodonapp.uk]

@lemay

"No way to prevent this hacking", says only industry where this regularly happens.

(apologies to the Onion)

@cstross