Might not be 100% true. If the van is integrated with the existing cellular network they could get the needed credentials to mimic the network from the network, in which case they would look exactly like part of the network. That's a different worry, though.
Locking your phone to LTE mode and preferably your home network (might work wierdly in the US?) or better turns on network authentication which means that this only works with the collaboration of the network, which limits it to legal wiretaps. Legal wiretaps on the phone network could use the systems built into the network anyway, beyond the radio interface, so you weren't protected against those in the first place.
1) You are national/military intelligence and you have various secret long term warrants / exceptions which never come to court. In practice small things like murder and drugs running are calmly ignored as long as they don't involve state security.
2) You don't; the story is largely spreading misinformation; you get a warrant for an area and spy on people in that area. Courts grant these reasonably readily for limited areas.
"bypasses traditional warrant requirements under the Fourth Amendment." = VIOLATES the 4th Amendment. Bypassing The US Constitution to track Americans without a warrant, is a Constitutional Violation, and a CRIME.
Much more easily this would be a breach of wiretapping laws such as ECPA and would likely need a warrant to be legal, either under FISA or normal criminal law. No need to get into a complex constitutional case. It's also not going to work if you switch off old mobile modes and lock your phone into LTE, 4G, 5G or greater modes of network use, a feature which is definitely available on the free phoneOSs like LineageOS and GrapheneOS.
Totally disagree. There was nothing quite like the satisfaction of finding out that trans fats are worse than butter. Absolutely you should listen to studies that agree with what you are doing already and possibly even gloat about them to your "healthy" friends who keep switching from trend to trend. Do use this study to wind up people who tell you that you should give up coffee for health reasons.
On this site we call it 4±1.
Never forget your error bars.
You can do both.
If all the "problems" are stupid little things then why not just have AI clean it up? Insist that developers use AI defensively rather than tying their hands with a language that limits them.
The AI is trained on the output of human developers and so has the same problems as human developers. Computationally, a "wrong" program can be just as valid a result as a "right" program. You only avoid the wrong program through some form of constraint. If your constraints are all in your context window, rather than in your development environment then
a) they push other things that might also be important out of the context window
b) they are subject to the misunderstandings of the same constrains that exist in the training data
c) they are also subject to randomness and later decay
If, instead, you get the AI to hard wire better behavior in by having it choose to write the code in Rust, then the AI can use more of the context window to contain constraints against logic bugs.
What is the "Meta Oversight Board" exactly? What gives them the right to judge anything?
Freedom of speech is what gives them the right. The board was created by an evil company, sure, but it is possible for other companies to try to be even more evil than Meta. If what they found is true, then it's good that they publicize it even if they themselves or the people that created them don't have 100% pure motives.
Yes, it's a major problem that the AI models have serious biases. I even experimented with getting criticism of both sides in some of the ongoing conflicts. The AI would normally only argue against whichever sides were democratic.
the guy who always gets it wrong
If even he thinks AI is dubious, you know AI is bad news.
Not sure I follow your logic on the second part, but the first is clear. How much do you think it was worth the AI companies to pay him in order to get his negative opinion of their work out there? Do we have any evidence that OpenAI didn't pay for this opinion?
Wrong. SS7 was a complex stack and when the mobile network parts were created end to end encryption was considered. If end to end encryption and authentication had been included along with standardization of optimal routing prevention, which is now implemented as a proprietary mobile network function then none of these problems would have occurred.
Not really. Just because a feature exist doesn't mean that it's use is immune from being described as "abuse". If you use a feature for a completely unintended purpose then it's still abuse, it's just not hacking or some other covert nefarious activity. But it is abusing a feature.
True, but in this case the "features" (actually flaws, but anyway) were deliberately created with the explicit aim making it easier to spy on people. The only difference is that the spying is being done by Iran's security forces where it was expected to be done by the NSA or their allies. However, Iran is not doing anything that the NSA didn't expect to do themselves, so I think calling it "abuse" is misrepresenting what's going on.
Crucially a cheap manufacturer which made it easy to unlock and reflash phones. Useful for LineageOS, but unfortunately not GrapheneOS. Looking forward to the new hardware for that, really hoping they get something soon to replace Pixel.
Important part of the story; the fix to the problem of the father was to add pages about wine and other non-baby stuff to the baby leaflet so that nobody realized that they had been targeted for baby stuff.
We must be really careful that we target the problem, not the symptoms of the problem.
As they say, the best propaganda is true.
Absolutely, but in my view facing up to the truth and facing it early is important. It does become disinformation, however, if it gives you the impression that something that is true (immigrants do attack people) is the majority (so do other people; mostly immigrants less). If you get the right impression then you might do things better (there's nothing wrong with putting systems for stopping criminal immigrants, it helps the other immigrants too). If you get the wrong impression (ban all immigration) you will harm people.
A penny saved is a penny to squander. -- Ambrose Bierce
