And before you start yelling.
Stealth installation of illegal software.
You mean like totally "legal" ad networks that run JavaScript to fingerprint devices?
Or let's discuss the total legal business of providing home IP proxy, commercially.
Guess if it's done by a Western corporate entity with the correct backing it's a completely legal IT service, even if nobody could
sketch me a consumer ISP contract where reselling the bandwidth is legal. But hey, their legal department smokes good stuff and hallucinates these. And manages to isolate them with multiple levels of contracts.
@yacc143 @JeffGrigg @suzannealdrich @GossiTheDog It's times like this I wish I could search my dashboard. There was someome who said something several weeks ago that I think covers your key point. "Economic justice is a cybersecurity issue". They were talking about how people in poor nations turn to cybercrime to support themselves, but there is something to be said about how the rich not facing consequences amplifies the impact as well.
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Well, there are a number of aspects here.
Security starts always with a threat assessment. What might be a problem for you might be not a problem for me.
IT security got much more complicated with the internet: one of the issues was that the attackers for many attacks suddenly could come from around the globe. And at the same time the deterrent of the criminal system works less well internationally. And different costs of living might
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introduce additional attack options that were not feasible locally.
And that's basically what all the crazy AI security issues are.
Not new issues, but issues that have become effective due some operations that suddenly due to the availability of LLM technology are suddenly viable. That can be much better quality forgery of documents, emails, phishing, but it also speeds up dumb trial and error for security issues.
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