p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷

digital networks, infosec, self-hosting

[p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷ @phantomsuspect]

@UK_Daniel_Card @securityfreax I see that a lot on here. People just ramble about nothing. Even the so-called experts.

[p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷ @phantomsuspect]

@mikedamm @Vuojolahti @matthew_d_green No, literally one of the reasons was one of the senior guys swapped sims in the same phone. Another reason was their phones only communicated with each other and that was discovered by good analysis using Analyst's Notebook. Read the report.

[p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷ @phantomsuspect]

It's much easier for white hat security researchers to report issues as opposed to closed off proprietary software and operating systems. Apple has had some longtime vulnerabilities go unchecked for years.

[p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷ @phantomsuspect]

@heyitsgoad I just read your article on Android malware removal. "First, Android is open source, meaning any developer can access the code and create applications with malicious intent." Sorry but, doesn't that actually make it more secure since there are far more eyes on it?

[p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷ @phantomsuspect]

@awareness_tiger @HomeNetworkGuy_ The question asks about security, though; not stability.

[p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷ @phantomsuspect]

One of my favorite pastimes is observing Apple fans slowly realizing they've been had

[chompie @chompie1337]

AirPods are the most disappointing Apple product I’ve purchased in recent time. They’re nice, but for what I’m paying it feels like they should be better and last longer.

[p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷ @phantomsuspect]

Up until recently I had @NextDNS working properly on OPNsense, but recently a few of my devices are showing in DNS leak tests as using Cloudflare for resolution. I'm not sure if it's due to a recent @opnsense update or what, but I have the proper info in Unbound config. Thoughts?

[p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷ @phantomsuspect]

@glumDumpst3r One is hosting my UniFi controller as well as pulling in syslog from other devices, and another is part of a mobile radio platform.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

You may not like it but this is what a true 1337 hacker looks like

[p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷ @phantomsuspect]

@HomeNetworkGuy_ I just recently started using Uptime Kuma on each of my servers to monitor each other as well as specific containers running on the servers. I'm loving it so far.

[p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷ @phantomsuspect]

@flipper_net Out of stock... Again

[p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷ @phantomsuspect]

Keep your devices updated and restart them as often as possible.

[p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷ @phantomsuspect]

@JenLuvsFitness @fasc1nate Catch up to what, eastern slave labor?

[p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷ @phantomsuspect]

@crosstalksol One could buy everything they need to gain entrance to Jeff Bezos's residence on Amazon dot com

[p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷ @phantomsuspect]

@CubicleApril @codekoan @mkb_sea You took one stat about trucks and ran with it. There are likely a few different causes to include people playing on smart phones while driving. Most people aren't going to willingly admit to responders they were on their phone during a crash due to fear of legal consequences.

[p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷ @phantomsuspect]

@LinusTech Damn that takes me back

[p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷ @phantomsuspect]

Asking the important questions

[Peter Nixey @peternixey]

I'm in the top 2% of users on StackOverflow. My content there has been viewed by over 1.7M people. And it's unlikely I'll ever write anything there again.

Which may be a much bigger problem than it seems. Because it may be the canary in the mine of our collective knowledge.

A canary that signals a change in the airflow of knowledge: from human-human via machine, to human-machine only. Don’t pass human, don’t collect 200 virtual internet points along the way.

StackOverflow is *the* repository for programming Q&A. It has 100M users & saves man-years of time & wig-factories-worth of grey hair every single day.

It is driven by people like me who ask questions that other developers answer. Or vice-versa. Over 10 years I've asked 217 questions & answered 77. Those questions have been read by millions of developers & had tens of millions of views.

But since GPT4 it looks less & less likely any of that will happen; at least for me. Which will be bad for StackOverflow. But if I'm representative of other knowledge-workers then it presents a larger & more alarming problem for us as humans.

What happens when we stop pooling our knowledge with each other & instead pour it straight into The Machine? Where will our libraries be? How can we avoid total dependency on The Machine? What content do we even feed the next version of The Machine to train on?

When it comes time to train GPTx it risks drinking from a dry riverbed. Because programmers won't be asking many questions on StackOverflow. GPT4 will have answered them in private. So while GPT4 was trained on all of the questions asked before 2021 what will GPT6 train on?

This raises a more profound question. If this pattern replicates elsewhere & the direction of our collective knowledge alters from outward to humanity to inward into the machine then we are dependent on it in a way that supercedes all of our prior machine-dependencies.

Whether or not it "wants" to take over, the change in the nature of where information goes will mean that it takes over by default.

Like a fast-growing Covid variant, AI will become the dominant source of knowledge simply by virtue of growth. If we take the example of StackOverflow, that pool of human knowledge that used to belong to us - may be reduced down to a mere weighting inside the transformer.

Or, perhaps even more alarmingly, if we trust that the current GPT doesn't learn from its inputs, it may be lost altogether. Because if it doesn't remember what we talk about & we don't share it then where does the knowledge even go?

We already have an irreversible dependency on machines to store our knowledge. But at least we control it. We can extract it, duplicate it, go & store it in a vault in the Arctic (as Github has done).

So what happens next? I don't know, I only have questions.

None of which you'll find on StackOverflow.

(I write on AI from a technical and product perspective. If you find that interesting then please do follow me for more)

[p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷ @phantomsuspect]

@GreyNoiseIO Son of a bitch I missed this

[p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷ @phantomsuspect]

@realmavut What kind of improvements do you suggest?

[p̷h̷a̷n̷t̷o̷m̷ @phantomsuspect]

I don't typically tell people how to live their lives, but each of you should have at least this much visibility into your network. #SecurityOnion