AI will exponentially increase the number of cyberattacks. The likely outcome is

1. Legacy firmware will be a bloodbath, leading to a consolidation of firms

2. All digital infrastructure will have an always on AI "shield" of agents that monitor and defend against attacks

3. The attacks that survive will depend on human points of failure, leading to less control for humans being the default

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233mhz 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why do we always talk about ai capabilities in the future tense?

What's stopping them from doing these right now? Script kiddies have basically reverse engineered the PS5 at that point, do you think state actors need better models?

	▲	ben_w 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Scale. State actors could always spy on whoever they want, AI (between hacking into phones even when their country is not big enough to just lean on the Big Tech firms, TTS models, and LLMs) lets them spy on everyone at once. Various people (not sure if "script kiddies" is fair) may have reverse engineered the PS5, but they don't generally waste time going after Z-list celebrities' own brand of smart light bulbs. Just as a virus lets you attack all identical computers once you've written it, a sufficiently competent LLM lets you attack basically all computers identical or not.
	▲	TeMPOraL 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Possibly that anything more substantial than defrosting some fridges is basically equivalent of a military strike, and will be treated as such.

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swingandamiss 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just updated my openwrt firmware yesterday. I was a minor point release behind but I'm no longer risking it.

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sippingabonedry 2 hours ago | parent [-]

What if they poisoned the repository and pulled a Jia Tan where only new versions were affected?

Now you don't know what the hell to do.

	▲	odiroot 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Put a decoy Fritzbox in front of it. Defense in depth!
	▲	swingandamiss 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		it's def a risk, but the latest point release was out for a bit

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bakies 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

very doubtful it will be exponential, considering that blue teams can use it too, and backend engineers are using it for security too.

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squidmaster 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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