DEEN keeps getting BOMBARDED with questions about AB’s ALCOHOL ADDICTION as fans continue expressing CONCERN over his WELL-BEING — YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HE HAD TO SAY! 😳💔👀
Your agent will deal with more strangers this week than you will all year.
@kstellana with @HenriArslanian on why the trust we built for humans won't hold.
DEEN keeps getting BOMBARDED with questions about AB’s ALCOHOL ADDICTION as fans continue expressing CONCERN over his WELL-BEING — YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HE HAD TO SAY! 😳💔👀
FaZe Banks reveals "the truth" in what led to FaZe Clan ending 😳
“you guys were the issue, we just invested $11M into your careers.. how much of that money did I touch, Matt Kalish and FaZe touch. ZERO dollars, made no money.. let me tell you Ron, karma is a real thing"
Threadguy asks Mert for his doom scenario on AI hacking, and why he thinks a bank hack is highly unlikely
“You might put up defenses and build a wall and have the biggest army and tanks and all this. But then you have to account for the Navy, and then not just the Navy, but the submarines, and then the Air Force, and then the Space Force now, and then cyber.”
“One of the ones that was recent was about internet certificates, which would allow people to basically forge legit websites. And so, you wouldn't even know you're being hacked in some sense.”
“I think it's highly unlikely that, for example, a bank gets hacked. Because, even if you tried as a user to move your money, that's a slow process there. So, if you're hacking it, the banks are all interconnected. They can call the other bank and be like, stop, right?”
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Mert compares engineers defending against AI hacks to an interceptor war, defense costs more than the attack
“The Googles and Apples of the world are under what I assume are insane attacks, but they have teams within teams within teams helping stop these things, right?”
“One good analogy is like, it's like the US-Iran thing where, if you remember, they were just launching shit tons of drones, and then people were like, oh, well, the interceptors are going to run out because it's more expensive to produce the interceptor than it is for the drone.”
“It's kind of similar for, like, engineering companies, which is to say, we're just spending all day, every day just upgrading these systems and defending. And that's just much more painful for the engineer than it is for the average user.”
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Mert lays out the security basics that stop most hacks, starting with one rule, never use SMS
“I don't want people, kind of, their takeaway from this episode to be like, okay, we're fucked. It's over. It's more like, just be paranoid and stay ready, but you have a lot of help, but you still need to do the basics right, right?”
“Like, use a YubiKey for your own accounts. Get two, not just one. Never use SMS, ever. Ever, really ever. Do not use SMS.”
“Use a password manager. To the extent possible, like, if you're using ProtonMail, use a different email for every single site you sign up for. Quick updates, you know, trust the channels. Do not fucking click any, like, weird shit. Only go to, like, the known.coms.”
“But just do the basics right. The basics are probably 90% of the effort.”
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Threadguy asks Mert what a zero-day really is, and why companies feel it far more than you do
“Like, a zero day is basically when they discover something just, like, right on the open, just like that. Like, something that's never been seen before. And basically, it has live implications. Which is to say, if there's a zero day on your phone, let's say Apple announces it, you have to upgrade right away.”
“Like, look, you're not going to be able to hack every single device on Earth. Like, that just requires, to Dev's last point, an extreme amount of connectedness and compute and all these resources. So, it's actually much more important for companies.”
“For example, there was a Linux zero day, um, which, um, basically allowed it such that if you'd sent a certain type of traffic to a server, without any passwords, without anything else, just sending traffic, you could just take over that computer. Which is, like, pretty insane.”
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Mert explains why a crypto hack hits harder than any other hack, the money is just there and it is not reversible
“When it comes to things that aren't crypto, it's very hard to actually steal money. And generally, what will happen is, for example, you'll hack a smart fridge and the temperature will go up or something.”
“So, it's a lot of data mining. Like, people are just stealing data. And then that data gets sold on the dark web to other hackers, which then use that to target you.”
“With crypto, it's different, obviously, because the money is just there. And it's, generally speaking, not reversible. So, you have somebody like Binance, they get hacked, that money is just gone.”
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Mert breaks down how AI flipped the cost of hacking, one weak entry point is now all it takes
“Because AI has changed the economics of this, right? Before, if you needed to find these hacks, you'd have to spend an insane amount of manual work for basically no outcome, like, other than a temporary disturbance.”
“Now, it's not super difficult, right? You find one weak entry point, whether it's an unpatched server or some weird unpatched internet thing, just one person working at these companies, which is what happened with Binance.”
“And then you just let your trillion agents do the rest of the work. So the economics are now very different for attack versus defense.”
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Domahhhh reveals he is betting on a blue tsunami in the midterms
“I'm betting basically on a blue tsunami today. It's reminding me a little bit of 2006,”
“Republican voters are a little bit depressed and Democrat voters are very enthusiastic about voting.”
“And then the Democrats to like sweep. So basically them to win both the House and the Senate.”
Rasmr says the only thing he wants from the midterms is a state mandated 5'5 Latina girlfriend 😭😭
“All I care about is a state-mandated 5'5 Latina girlfriend.”
“Everybody's talking about the midterms, the Iran war.”