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The Beave · 15h
I can't GAF about normies. I don't care if someone can't figure bit out. I did and I'm an idiot. Also, that's an entirely different matter. All you need are two buttons: Sign in Create new keypair That's it.
Silberengel · 14h
That's how everything works, now. Need 2FA and a passphrase and biometric data and proof of age and a PIN...
ChipTuner · 14h
But neither is copy pasting some text between apps that gets you pwned. Trading UX for pwnage... Not a good tradeoff. Normies have billions of apps, it's essentially a nostr password manager and we can easily teach it as such. Once installed, use nostr anywhere with less worries. Imho storing se...
uncleJim21 profile picture
Fiat Ruins Everything 2026 AI edition: AI labs went from "make AI as useful as possible" to "oh shit we can't monopolize and rent seek with this" to "I know. Let's make it as scary and harmful to humans as possible then we can get our regulatory moat".

(h/t @jimmysong)

uncleJim21 profile picture
Even just a 2/2 Multisig with SWW + HWW causes minimum 10x on attack cost.

Why? Because the attacker either has to expend the effort to hack *your setup in particular* OR collaborate and open source all the exploits together without white hats noticing AND without betraying each other.
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Laser · 1d
Exactly. It's not linear.
Technical Debt · 1d
You wouldn’t be able to catch the power spikes if transmission was done using an alternative power source. Heck, the hacker could use some RFID bullshit and charge/communicate with the thing wheneve...
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"Assuming that power can be sourced from somewhere else, analyzing power consumption will not detect an implant."

Yes and that is a big assumption. I think constraining the space in the enclosure is actually the best defense against all classes of attacks especially ones that use external power supplies. It's also the simplest. Just pot everything and cram it in the enclosure like a sardine so there's no space to add parasitic hardware.

Sensing currents at the display level is so easy to beat with simple amplifiers. With a good amplifier stage the attacker could detect bits with mere nano amp consumption.

You'd have to make a physically secure enclosure for the display (can't access pins) AND make it encrypted for that idea to work. It's certainly possible.

I think choking the external power supply's access with volumetric constriction is the strongest and simplest. Then you can do detection as I described and yes hardening the display design all in conjunction.

With the proliferation of AI powered attacks, I think Apple will face more pressure than you think to do things like authorized signatures on data payloads otherwise no forwarding.
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Technical Debt · 1d
Probably, but now they are under a comittee of sorts, I don’t think they can change things in the find my network unilaterally. It wouldn’t be the first time a exploited legacy protocol is forcefully kept around.
uncleJim21 profile picture
Frontier Labs and specifically Anthropic started steering the frontier toward cyber offense probably at some point last year.

After seeing the breakthroughs in efficiency from Deepseek in December 24, I believe they realized the jig is up. There is no moat. Instead create a regulatory moat. Speed run to scary Cyber Pandemic narratives (h/t @Laser).

First dip your toe in the water with Mythos. Advertise a model so scary it can't . Then patiently wait for the Chinese to exfiltrate weights from a cyber offense capable model. Now there's a credible narrative why we need Muh Regulation to stop muh cyber. Regulatory moat = keys to one of the most pivotal technologies ever created. Classic.

Problem. Reaction. Solution.

(h/t @Brian Hirschfield for OP)

#ai #freedom #aisafety #cyberpandemic #rulesforreset