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Comment Re:But wait ... (Score 1) 44

Diplomacy with Muslim nations

Hardly seems relevant nor appropriate as the perhaps foremost directive for NASA.

NASA is America's space agency. The only feeling it is supposed to give any foreign nation is that they have a small pp and we have the biggest missiles with the most advanced technology. The literal reason that NASA was created.

Comment Re:"AI" (Score 2) 33

None of the "retail" platforms, including Robin Hood, charge trading fees. But, they do front run the trades and get paid for showing bigger trading houses your trades before they are executed. For the pedants, they also make money from margin interest.

Despite no or minimal trading fees, they all get paid for every transaction. So, win or lose, the more you trade the more they make.

Comment Hey Kids! You Like Wasting Your Time? Here's How. (Score 1) 54

All that change that occupy wallstreet brought about is a rather salient indicator of the effectiveness of the group. That is to say, the entire thing was an epic waste of time. The only thing that it accomplished - the only thing - was increased revenues for social media and news media.

Now we have the AI version of Activism For Complete and Utter Morons. This changes everything ^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h absolutely nothing.

Comment Fucking Genius (Score 2) 106

While this shit really frustrates and infuriates me, I've got to give praise to the fucking geniuses that figure this stuff out. Amazing and humbling!

For those that did not read the paper, here are a few notes:

- No decryption or data stream snooping is taking place. They are only deriving which websites or applications are loaded post attack launch.
- No site history is readable.
- No already loaded websites or applications are decipherable. Mostly. It may be possible to detect sites or applications that continue to access the SSD, but this was not demonstrated.
- The attack runs -> you open another webpage -> it can accurately predict what the site/page you opened was.
- The attack runs -> you open Calculator -> it can derive that an application was started, probably(high degree of accuracy) Calculator.
- This all happens within the browser using Javascript.
- Close the attacking website's tab/browser and the attack is finished.
- It's fucking genius.

- I hate it.

Comment It's Not Missing. Read It Again. (Score 1) 106

Also from the actual paper:

the victim first visits an attacker-controlled website, e.g., through a seemingly benign website, advertisements, or spam

Just like the vector of most infections.

Not explicitly mentioned in the paper, but of equal or greater risk, is the cases where known websites have been pwned. Let's say the attacker deposits their code on your favorite forum or Wordpress site.

The user simply has to visit an infected site. Getting them there has never been the major hurdle. e.g. Look at the TITS on this one!!!!

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