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mentalgear 3 hours ago

While I had the same thoughts about the coming cyber-apocalypse, the ugly truth is that it doesn't make a difference as in a year or so models will be so persuasive and skilled in social engineering that even the hardest cyberdefense in the world doesn't keep them from exfiltrating any information they want by targeting not the system, but the users: leveraging data from the dark web, humans for rent or devising highly deceptive scams you can t even imagine.

Maybe you can upgrade digital systems until they are 'fully fortified' in theory, but humans have an upper limit what they can understand / perceive / critically analyse (not to even speak about engineered high pressure situations) that can't be upgraded.

js8 an hour ago | parent [-]

> Maybe you can upgrade digital systems until they are 'fully fortified' in theory, but humans have an upper limit what they can understand / perceive / critically analyse (not to even speak about engineered high pressure situations) that can't be upgraded.

There is an answer to that - simplify and abstract. Lots of human software is unnecessarily complex, often caused by backwards compatibility and general human creativity.

Take sendmail vs postfix as an example of this process.

SoftTalker an hour ago | parent [-]

Yes. Every feature is also a vulnerability. The most secure features are the ones that don't exist.