I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

This could never happen to your bank.

… a weeks-long hacker campaign against the Mexican government culminated in January with a massive data theft of some of the federal government’s most sensitive information.

“By the time it was over,” Let’s Data Science reported on Wednesday, “the attacker had stolen 150 gigabytes of sensitive data — including 195 million taxpayer records, voter registration files, government employee credentials, and civil registry data.” […]

Summing up a report published Wednesday by Israeli cybersecurity startup Gambit Security, Bloomberg wrote *Archived here that some “unknown Claude user” simply made up “Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities in government networks, writing computer scripts to exploit them and determining ways to automate data theft.”

8 Replies to “I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords”

  1. With these reports so seemingly common nowadays, I often wonder if the whole banking system – LIKE OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (hello DOGE!) – has been hopelessly raided/compromised for years now. That many (most?) banks have already been drained of their reserves, that whatever’s left of it is all a facade, and it will – similar to 2008 (hello Obama!) – be conveniently timed to “collapse” by actions taken by sinister commie puke Deep State bad actors.

    ….. Anyway, good morning everybody! 🙂

    1. Apparently banks in Canada and the US are allowed to have zero reserves.

      Globally, reserve ratios vary significantly:

      Argentina: 40.9%
      Nigeria: 45.0%
      Lebanon: 30.0%
      China: 17.0%
      Eurozone: 1.0%
      Australia, Canada, Denmark, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Hong Kong, United States: 0%

    1. Those guardrails are the same as locks on doors: they only stop honest folk.

      I’m not saying we don’t need them, but they are definitely not a cure-all.

      1. Indeed. And I’m sure it’ll only be used for “lawful” purposes for sure. AI in general bothers me a lot. AI in the hands of people already capable of doing catastrophic harm to many bothers me a lot more. See the Canadian Forces use of psyop tactics on Canadian citizens during Covid for a quick example.

  2. And the government of Can Ahh DUH rushes to impose digital services on all,while they are the #1 security risk.
    These days they don’t even bother to let you know,that your data has been taken from their computers..
    They accept no liability for their carelessness and incompetence.
    So why would they bother to tell the victims ?
    Every piece of data collected by any government agency is for sale or theft.
    This is what they do.
    Waste and destroy,while blowing smoke up your …
    The GST idiots of revenue Canada sent out notices,that they will only be accepting electronic filings,just after the scandal broke that CRA Employees were the scammers extorting taxpayers..
    The gun data was “lost control of” in 2021 yet the RCMP felt that this was of no concern to anyone…

    Stats Canada threatens you with a $500 fine and rising should you refuse to fill in their forms,then they proudly boast of the revenue they generate by selling the data they collect.

    There is zero chance that any information you exchange with the bureaus,will remain in confidence.

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