"Seriously. Go fix some real problems like standardizing password complexity rules or encouraging developers to use alternatives to passwords."
Spoken like someone far outside of the infosec space.
There is literally an organization inside of the United States Federal Government that does just this:
https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-...
From the actual PDF paper, they go into details about various conferencing apps like Skype, Zoom, Teams, etc where the audio would already be available to a remote entity.
Essentially think of it like screen-sharing and typing in your credentials for someone else to see.
And yeah, while the attack vector currently has a low probability of success, things like this only get better with time.
I still remember from many MANY moons ago a research paper on recreating a house key from a low resolution photograph taken with a flip phone from that era, and now we're all walking around with 4K cameras in our pockets with insane zoom lenses with better clarity and greater ISO tolerances.
That's a whole hell of a lot of words for basically saying "they've employing 3 researchers / year, who get to keep their research"
This honestly feels more like an experiment for the firm than anything else... oh, and a publicity stunt for sure!
Come to the BSD world. We have "doas" instead.
https://xkcd.com/1357/ not only the comic, but the alt-text is an absolute banger.
Fueled by idiots too stupid to switch their workloads over to the vastly more lucrative AI workloads that are as equally worthless to society!
But still needed to layoff 1900 people this past week.
At least they waited until literally the day after a live conference to can entire teams, the ones that were putting on the show!?
What a shitty company right now.
Remember when they discontinued the 1GB Raspberry Pi 4, and then lowered the price of the 2GB to $35 to take its place? And then a year or so later, re-introduced the 1GB and pushed the 2GB back up in price?
Yeah, they would never raise prices.
Considering between ATSC 2.0 and ATSC 3.0 OTA broadcasts, I get 50+ channels for free, yes, it is more expensive!
Which is exactly why these are not intended for every-day home users. These are enterprise drives with organizations usually purchasing thousands at a time for large storage clusters.
This entirely depends on the quality and calibration of the self checkout machine. My local grocery store has very well maintained machines, and I can personally scan items a tad bit faster than the experienced checkers who do it all day long. However, when I go to other stores, especially non-grocery stores, the machines are slow as hell and have that "tutorial" mentality that you describe. The one at my local grocery store has the ability to bypass every single thing it says. It could be mid-talking, and you can already scan 2-3 items ahead of what its reading. It'll ask questions like "choose a payment method", but if your credit card is already in the machine, the voice line plays, but the prompt clears itself out automatically by detecting the card reader's processing.
As far as your thought on polling: my particular grocery store, even if NOBODY is in line for the checkers, the self checkout will still have people queue up. It is by far and away the preferred method here. But admittedly, I also live in an area that is mostly tech workers, so we're not afraid of using a screen and buttons ourselves, since that's our day jobs.
100% this. During game development (or really any software development), placeholder content is very commonly used. This is essentially a Lorem Ipsum, but for voice, that got missed during release build. During development, you'll see this all the time, like placeholder textures, or placeholder text, or placeholder whatevers. And its also quite common to use placeholder content that is close to final content, so in this case, a sound file with the voice, just not done by a human. Simple mistake to overlook when the placeholder content is closer to the real final content.
Maybe... just maybe... its actually because of the "algorithms"
We as consumers of these platforms know our content wont even reach people that follow us. This is a constant complaint on every major platform now, such as Xwitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. The algos are all optimized for ad impressions to make $$$. Normal user posts that are not paid/promoted only reach maybe 1% to 10% of a given user's audience. And when your audience is your circle of friends/family that may be only about 100 total, that means maybe 2-5 people of that group will even see what you have to say. Who the hell would have the motivation to post at that point? Literally opening a window and shouting outside will have a larger audience.
It Really Whips the Llama's Ass
what do you think he'll be doing in this "hospital prison"? that's just a nice headline to say that the kid is now on some secretive ops team.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
