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Kirk · 4w
The Coldcard bug highlights that AI is the technological opposite of encryption. Where cryptography is a tool that gives those defending their privacy and property an asymmetric advantage, ever-more-i...
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Going to push back just a little bit here.
It's not really the opposite.

Ie, it still has to follow traditional rules in trying to factor extremely large numbers. It can't do it any faster, or any differently.

It's just more attack vectors can be analyzed by a single adversary.
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Kirk · 4w
Perhaps more accurate to say that it is opposite in who it gives disproportionate power to. You can construct a fortress and one guy can come along and say "Yo Claude, find me an exploit" and have a swarm of agents discover every crack. The really frightening thing is when this becomes "Hey Kimi, ...