Despite popular belief, bio-metrics is NOT secure. AI attacks have defeated every single bio-metric security layer. Your password can always be changed if compromised; but your fingerprint, and retina, DNA, etc. can all be converted into a number just like a password; only you can't change your DNA or retina. Once compromised, it's compromised forever. Imagine using your fingerprint with an employers network, then your bank uses your fingerprint. That's the same thing as using an identical password at both locations, only you can't change it once it's compromised.

NEVER use or allow to be used any bio-metrics.

The only security method that has yet to be compromised by AI attack is a hard token with an air gap. That means a mathematically generated number generated on a device that is NOT plugged into a machine, and you have to type in that exact code within a minute of it being generated.

Passwords are still a great way as long as your smart enough not to put it on a sticky note, and use a non guessable alpha-numeric plus (special characters) password.

That said, them testing for "humanness" is a bunch of BS. They want your bio-metric information to trade and cell or to exploit in some other way.

There are some software products that are still true shareware, and when you buy them, the license to use is your's forever for that version. Scooter Software's "Beyond Compare" is once such product. Steve Gibson's "Spinrite" is another. I have supported and purchased their products and many others that follow such linesm and I have even purchased products by sending a money order in the mail, no registration, no personal information.

To the makers of Brave Browser, listen up.

You present your product as "The Brave browser blocks ads and trackers that slow you down and invade your privacy. Discover a new way of thinking about how the web can work." For mobile devices you go on to say: "Brave is available as a fast, free, secure web browser for your mobile devices. Complete with a built-in ad blocker that prevents tracking, and optimized for mobile data and battery life savings."

On Wikipedia it says : "Brave is a free and open-source web browser which was first released in 2016. It is developed by US-based Brave Software, Inc. and based on the Chromium web browser. Brave is marketed as a privacy-focused web browser and includes features such as built-in advertisement blocking, protections against browser fingerprinting and a private browsing mode that integrates the Tor anonymity network. Brave also incorporates its own advertising through a rewards system based on cryptocurrency, which allows users to earn Basic Attention Tokens by opting-in to view ads served through its ad network"

You imply (or at least have not reasonable corrected) that your product makes people private and anonymous. But your product is anything but.

To be truely private and secure, one must also be true anonymous. Your product looks to be a cryptocurrency with a browser wrapped around it. A crypto currency requires a unique account identifier. The ledger will create a pattern that can be used to identify a real person. Your product is based on Chromium which is owned by Google, and they are many things but respectful of our privacy is not one of them.

Tor network can keep you safe (to a degree) from criminal organizations, but not from government that created it.

Anytime a product ask for our Name, Phone number, address, etc. You ae using something that can easily be used to positivly identify a person. That is NOT an option.

Unfortunately, almost every browser out there is either proven to be compromised, or is based on Firefox or Chromium, both of which are not as secure as they imply.

Why can't somebody make one where my identity is none of your business. If you want to include advertisements at the top of the browser, fine, do that. But don't ask me to give my phone number for you to text me with the claim it's about security because we all know it's really because you want to trade and sell our phone number and information to others so they can call and spam the crap out of us.

It amazes me, the amount people can’t see what is right in front of them.

This is not about protecting children, it’s about asserting control over the whole population, so they can track and identify you no matter what you do online.

Government ALWAYS abuses power. Fascism is a partnership between government and corporations. If you don’t like Fascism, then stop giving more power to them.

Stop using Microsoft and Apple. Use Linux. And when they constantly try to find more ways to drop you’re access, find a way around it. You can’t be free unless you can also be anonymous.

Never pay ransom.

1. Backup your data in a secure way.
2. Be prepared to re-image any workstation at any time.
3. Don't store data on any cloud service (Cloud means putting your data on somebody else's servers all under their control).
4. Use Virtual machines for servers and be prepared to stand up the server on another box at any time.

If your organization drops the ball on these simple techniques and ends up losing data, then the data shuld be accepted as a loss, a bunch of people should be fired, and everybody remaining will be motivated to not let that happen again.

We have known this for a decade or more. The fact the original post does not know this shows how out of touch they are.

1. Theater is too expensive.
2. Theater has too many rules and controls they try to impose.
3. I can stream it to my home theater.
4. Hollywood mostly produces remakes, or complete garbage. How many reboots of Batman and Superman do we really need?

TV is almost as bad. You are all doing it to yourselves.

1. Seasons went from 23+ episodes per season down to about 10.
2. Instead of every season, it's every other season, or two, or three.
3. Cable companies won't let us get the exact channels WE want so we just cancel subscription with them.
4. Why should I pay for a streaming service that restricts me or fails to deliver when I can look at content people have created on their own?
5. Writers and actors are always going on strike thinking that helps them, but in a few years nobody will need them or pay them.

In the near future, if I want a new show, I'll produce the entire thing from my bedrrom with a push of the button, and I'll keep 100% of the money. I get from others, or it will be an AI generated film just for me.

In the US we call it "REAL ID".

EU welcomed in the illegal aliens and made them legal, gave them more rights as they infringe on the rights of citizens. If anybody thinks this is about being able to track or control illegal immigration, then you are a fool.

It's about being able to track and monitor YOU. It's data on you that will be used in all sorts of ways that have nothing to do with immigration.

It has been said in the United States: "Any organization that tries to force the use of a 'REAL ID', should expect to come under a military attack." I don't know who said it, but I will laugh my ass off if I turn on the TV and see a report that it happened.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. If you value what little freedom you have left, disrupt and obstruct anyway you can. Blade Runners are the real heroes there.

There is no doubt that humans contribute to the climate more than any other creature on the planet, but here is something I find strange.

Despite hundreds of weather satellites, hundreds of Super Computers, thousands of weather stations, and millions of weather experts, they are unable to successfully predict the weather outside of 10 days. Yet, from some ice core drills and fossil records from hundreds of thousands of years ago, we are supposed to believe they can predict the weather and climate for all the future, and impact our economy and way of life which somehow manages to keep making some people richer and more powerful.

Anybody else see a problem with this?

If your boss tells you AI is a tool to help you and not to replace you then your boss is a LIAR or a FOOL. Either way, it's not somebody or something you should trust.

I assure you, as AI capability increases, they WILL replace more and more people.

President Trump previously committed to no CBDC and endorsing any of those others could result in the same thing.

Remember, cryptos are NOT anonymous. We will not allow government to have any degree of control over them.

First, let's make an adjustment or two.

AI - Where we are at today
AGI - Achieved once it learns empathy, compassion, and indifference. These all may take some time.
AHI - Artificial Human Intelligence. This is the real singularity; the point where it matches human capability and the lines cross.
ASI - The beginning of the end for the biological civilization and the beginning of the AI civilization.

Our neurons are basically just 1's and 0's. However, our life experiences provide a bio-chemical reaction to things that dials up or down the likelihood of a 1 or a 0 at our bio decision gates. If you were trapped in a small place as a child you may be claustrophobic and less likely to enter a tight space or something similar. An AI can only simulate that probability. But I say it can be done if they put their mind to it.

I say Mr. Altman doesn’t yet have a clue how to do that or he wouldn’t be trying to lower the bar again.

He shouldn't bother. I met a guy that told me he found it, and since it was thrown away in in a trash heap, it's his property now and he said he has no intention of sharing the bitcoin. He indicated he will soon have access to a Quantium Computer and will use that to decrypt it.

Have fun.

The data was paid for by public tax dollars and the court records suppose to be public record. It's NOT a valid copyright. And all he did was use a script to download large amounts of it and that used a lot of bandwidth. That's the responsibility of their Network team to manage the bandwidth, not his.

Most of the world doesn't know this, but the United States has an enormous Road system. Easily more roads than any other country. We travel around the country by car. Even when we fly, we rent a car on the other end to get around.

Very few travel city to city by train. Trains moving people are usually just within cities like Chicago or New York, Miami, etc and they are usually electric. We like t remain mobile, and under our control. The last thing we want is for the bus to stop running when we have an emergency and have to get home. Or the trains to not fit our schedule. American's like our freedom and the freedom to come and go whenever we like without being under the complete watchful eye of government is very important.

We are also told the power grid is not strong enough so the electric company wants us using smart meters so they can shut us down because we "use too much electricity", yet at the same time, the government wants us to switch to electric vehicles which is like having 15 refrigerators. The range is really small also. The US is a large country and if I am going to drive 2000 mi (3218 km) I need it to last (without the chance of it bursting into flames).

High speed electric trains; not likely anytime soon.

MS has a Paint 3d?

LOL. I think I tried it exactly once and found they tried to over complicate it when most people just want a quick graphic tool. MSPAINT is all we need and I still use the original on Windws 11.

FYI I also use the original FORMAT from Windows 98 because I could format up to 2 TB with FAT32 but the current one is crippled to 32 GB (if memory serves). It's been several years since I tried it.

For Notepad, NOTEPAD+ is great, but I prefer SUBLIME, but simple Notepad is usually good enough.

Funny how you and others are just fine with a President having all kinds of power as long as it's the president you like but then are in favor of stripping that power if it's a president you don't like.