We expected them 20 years ago, when all people working in the field knew already that SS7 needs security safeguards, not to sit on their hands and do nothing.

Yawn.

No credit for that is due to the hasbara bros and MAGAts.

the hasbara bros started the "october 7 war" so that attention went back from Ukraine to the nazinyahu-lead apartheid shithole. Cost Ukraine a large piece of Donetsk oblast and tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives. Fuck you.

the MAGAts lost a war with Iran and shot in 3 months more rockets than the trumpistain has provided Ukraine over the whole course of the russian aggression. Fuck you more.

So, in short, fuck off with your attempts to claim credit, you putin lover.

Nope. The problem is that exploit code does not need to be reliable or secure or maintainable or efficient. In fact, having 20 exploit programs and only one works is perfectly fine for an attacker. That approach does not work at all for patching and defense.

You can probably find the article but years ago a father found out his teenage daughter was pregnant because Target started sending him coupons for baby stuff. The reason Target did that is because they figured out that if you bought certain things that were not related to a baby it meant that you were pregnant. It was relatively simple machine learning that made that possible.

That is pretty much what I think as well.

Depends ho crappy that "national security" is. From available evidence, it may be shockingly bad and then even an Artificial Idiot may be a "threat"...

Spreadsheets are not racist, so there is no legal case. LLMs are known to have bias, so there may be one. At least that is what I think is the motivation here.

The problem seems to be that he is difficult to get rid of. Business-strategy wise, he has basically only screwed up for a long time now.

Sad as that is, cannot really argue with your point. The thing is, these may be people that do not have much choice.

Yep. Crappy people doing crappy things.

Seems somebody failed the creativity exam.

Fairphone.

Possibly. Many will currently hope the problems pass fast enough, but they might not. So unless they have reserves and are prepared to spend them...

Indeed. And they are going to be called upon to help clean up the mess many people made going all in on LLMs ...

Yes. Pretty clear leadership failure IMO. And now they are paying for it.