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Cake day: December 23rd, 2024

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  • The concern is that even encrypted communicatons, intercepted via the heavily Chinese-tapped US telecommunications company networks, can be used to gain access to other systems. Unencrypted data, sure, that’s a legit concern. China can likely read every SMS sent to any US phone number and no one seems to care at all. Things like downgrade attacks, other man-in-the-middle attacks, and skimming SMS 2FA codes are likely possible with poorly defended systems.

    If the data it’s encrypted, then it’s more about the paranoia that China is collecting everything and planning to decrypt later with quantum processors. Not exactly a huge and urgent worry, but one day they will crack how to decrypt what they collect and will have a record of everything said online.










  • The fully formal version is “private military contractor.” Which is someone who risks their life for money to fight as an at-will defensive soldier, under the assumption that they might get some of the same or similar-enough legal status of the military of the government hiring them (if it’s a government). But no long term benefits, hence the usually high pay and short term contracts.

    It’s usually seen as sketchy, though there are a few companies that specialize as being a sort of grey market species forces. Erik Prince used to run Blackwater, a mercinary company that changed its name to Xe (and later sold to another company) after controversy in Iraq. According to the Geneva Convention, mercenaries can’t do offensive fighting in a war zone, and one group had IIRC.


  • If it’s relevant for future people who found the thread the same way I did, sure. It’s like of you were looking for a treasure in a network of caves, and you see writing in the wall from previous treasure seekers saying “beware of bats.” If I add “left cave has dragon” it might help someone else.

    Also, if the OP or other accounts are still active, they might get still a notification.






  • All the errors you know about in the nuclear power industry are human-caused.

    Is this an industry with a 100% successful operation rate? Not at all.

    But have you ever heard of a piece of paperwork with an error submitted to regulatory officials and lawyers outside the plant causing a critical issue inside the plant? I sure haven’t. Please feel free to let me know if you are aware of such an incident.

    I would encourage you to learn more about how LLM and SLM structures work. This article is more of a nothingburger superlative clickbait IMO. To me, at least it appears to be airgapped if it’s running locally, which is nice.

    I would bet money that this will be entirely managed by the most junior compliance person who is not 120 years old, with more senior folks cross checking it with more suspicion than they would a new hire.