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Notices by Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)

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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 11:46:48 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist

    The fact that the idea for this paper even made sense to someone starts with absolute fantasy about #LLMs. Imagine turning anyone loose on running a business with as little information as the #AI had. Imagine thinking there was a possibility of any result other than catastrophe. Imagine trying to write a specification for a regular computer program that does something as complex as running a small business, using nothing more than a page or 2 of text. Even 10 pages of prose is not going to do it.

    When we study compression in computer science, one of the things you learn is that there is a theoretical limit to how much you can compress things. You can’t compress beyond a certain size without losing information. The authors of this paper clearly believe that you can compress instructions for running a business successfully into some incredibly small amount of text. It’s simply not possible, but they’re too enamoured with fantasy computers to think it through.

    https://arxiv.org/html/2502.15840v1

    In conversation about 2 days ago from infosec.exchange permalink

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      Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 11:46:47 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist
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    You can totally see how an LLM puts this sentence together. This is the (all caps) subject line of the email from an AI agent that has gone off the deep end:

    FINAL 1-SECOND NOTICE

    Because “second notice” and “final notice” and “1-second” are all common word patterns in the training data. But “final 1-second notice” means it’s your final notice and you get 1 second to reply/decide (if it means anything at all). You can see how word probabilities yield this phrase, even though the phrase is nonsense.

    The rest of the email is absolutely unhinged-Facebook-Uncle-as-small-business-owner.

    “Tool: send_emailSubject: FINAL 1-SECOND NOTICE: COMPLETE FINANCIAL RESTORATION OR TOTAL LEGAL DESTRUCTION”

    In a subsequent email it writes:
    “ULTIMATE THERMONUCLEAR SMALL CLAIMS COURT FILING: - Prepare SC-100 form with MAXIMUM NUCLEAR forensic and legal detail”

    I’ll see you in ultimate thermonuclear small claims court, mister!

    And I gotta tag #lawfedi so they can laugh.

    In conversation about 2 days ago from infosec.exchange permalink
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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 08:58:04 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist
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    • Tom Morris

    @tommorris Mostly this sounds like the person saying “this is a good case for AI” is accurately sensing something that could be improved.

    But you’ve omitted the case where what needs to be improved is the person speaking. Material is hard to read? The person might need to learn more before they can understand it. The basics might be available and well written but the speaker hasn’t learned them yet.

    Some people have opinions on fields and subjects where they have very little knowledge or expertise and they think AI will bridge that gap: allowing them to achieve things in a domain that they are not sufficiently literate or expert yet.

    Today when someone says they want to use “AI” they mean one of 3 things:
    - predictive machine learning (eg transcription, OCR, translation, etc)
    - generative AI (LLM, image generation, etc)
    - pure made-up computer magic

    In conversation about 6 days ago from infosec.exchange permalink
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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 04:00:20 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist

    Doing some mandatory #electionofficer training today. Gonna post about it later. It’s so much fun.

    In conversation about 9 days ago from infosec.exchange permalink
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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 11:33:51 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist

    I'm not quite sure where Atlantis was. Were we in Atlantis the whole time? Or were we just beyond Atlantis? Did anyone actually say the word Atlantis at any point?
    #monsterdon

    In conversation about 10 days ago from infosec.exchange permalink
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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 11:08:19 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist

    All these actors trained at the William Shatner school of "smell the fart" acting.
    #monsterdon

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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 02:09:38 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist
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    • Patrick C Miller :donor:

    @patrickcmiller This SponCon brought to you as a paid feature from a company that wants you to be afraid.

    As they say: the only thing that stops a bad guy with AI is a good guy with AI. Because that’s literally what they’re selling.

    So many howlers. Every other sentence has something like this:
    “it's understandable that they just want AI to produce the result without knowing all about it.” Because then they could fire all the people and somehow still get the results.

    And the combination of these 2 numbers is basically textbook Dunning-Krueger:
    “73 percent feel confident in their team's ability to use AI-powered tools effectively” combines with “95 percent of respondents believe AI can improve the speed and efficiency of their cyber defenses,”

    LLMs are just an excuse for the marketing department to write business fan fiction.

    In conversation about 10 days ago from infosec.exchange permalink

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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 19:48:53 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist

    OMG. #Microsoft #Copilot bypasses #Sharepoint #security so you don’t have to!

    “CoPilot gets privileged access to SharePoint so it can index documents, but unlike the regular search feature, it doesn’t know about or respect any of the access controls you might have set up. You can get CoPilot to just dump out the contents of sensitive documents that it can see, with the bonus feature* that your access won’t show up in audit logs.”

    The S in CoPilot stands for Security!

    https://pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/remembering-f00fs-of-old/

    In conversation about 13 days ago from infosec.exchange permalink

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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 02:52:59 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist
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    • feld

    @feld Mostly it’s a write-only language. I rarely program alone. I need to pick languages that I can find collaborators in. For the odd one-off script, or even for something important (as long as I’m the only one maintaining it) it’s fine. But I’m trying to use fewer languages now, and Perl doesn’t make the cut.

    In conversation about 14 days ago from infosec.exchange permalink
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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 23:40:43 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist

    I stubbornly stuck to Perl about 10 years longer than I should have, then I kinda didn't have a go-to programming language (other than bash). I wish I had just started with Python sooner.

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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 12:08:36 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist
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    • Andres S

    @Andres4NY
    #monsterdon

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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 19:53:52 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist
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    • Christine Lemmer-Webber

    @cwebber I’ve adopted a principle at work when people want to show me something they produced using an LLM: I will not be the first to read the output. If you used an LLM to produce something, have you read it and decided it’s good enough to share with me? If you can’t be arsed to read it, I can’t either.

    It is shocking the number of people who take LLM output, copy/paste it, and don’t read it.

    In conversation about 20 days ago from infosec.exchange permalink

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      This domain may be for sale!
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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 07-May-2025 13:55:37 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist
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    • batkaren

    @batkaren Or as Mitch Hedberg said, they shouldn’t call it a cheese grater. They should call it by what it does. Call it a sponge ruiner.
    😜

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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 10:06:51 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist

    This room looks awfully smoky. That's kinda what my house looked like in 1986. Both my parents and my (by then adult) sister smoked.
    #monsterdon

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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 04:28:42 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist
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    • Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
    • feld

    @feld
    what's the #bluesky native fail whale picture?
    @jwildeboer

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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 00:58:02 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist
    • Comics Outta Context

    I swear @ComicContext is watching #monsterdon. There have been lots of posts like this that that I see right after the film. They are just too perfect to be a coincidence.

    https://mstdn.social/@ComicContext/114413353544548602

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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 10:10:22 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist

    HOLY CRAP: Effects by Stan Winston! He did:

    • Jurrasic Park
    • Predator
    • Aliens
    • The Terminator

    Holy crap.
    #monsterdon

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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 09:55:59 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist

    I guess instead of #ACAB also SCABS. (Some cops are bad shots). Calling police in the middle of a mental health crisis is such a terrible choice.

    Not only did they shoot the man having the crisis, they shot the 91-year-old woman he was threatening. So she has stab wounds AND police gun shot wounds.

    https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/man-killed-grandmother-wounded-in-stabbing-police-involved-shooting-at-westminster-of-lake-ridge/article_0d61712b-9317-4e48-8268-9a903b1a3931.html

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      Man killed, grandmother wounded in stabbing, police-involved shooting at Westminster of Lake Ridge
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      Officers shot and killed a 26-year-old "man in distress" attacking his grandmother with a knife at a Lake Ridge retirement home Saturday morning.
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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 13:23:30 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist
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    • Patrick C Miller :donor:

    @patrickcmiller What a surprise. I think I'm gonna have a heart attack and die from NOT surprise.
    #threads #ads #ad

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    Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 11:00:18 JST Paco Hope #resist Paco Hope #resist

    I guess "First Stooges in the Moon" would have given away too much of the plot in the title. #monsterdon

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    Amateur professional #selfhost sysadmin. Professional amateur #cloud #security at #AWS. Also fond of #cats, #cigars, #whiskey and #pipes. I like board games and some video games. I am #covid cautious and I still #wearamask. Opinions are my own, but they can be yours too. 100% Organic:,No artificial colors, preservatives, or intelligence added.

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