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I'll open by saying that I'm not anti-AI. I think it can be a net positive. Take my own profession, information security: the world is worse off because most code out there hasn't been looked at by a security engineer. LLMs can automate finding security bugs, so we can get better software for less.
But then, I have to square this with the fact that one of the first casualties of AI were âbug bountyâ programs that paid people to report security flaws. LLMs could produce plausibly-sounding reports long before they could find real bugs. Unscrupulous âresearchersâ figured out they could extract money from the 5-10% of vendors who were not paying attention by slop-bombing us all and wasting everyoneâs time.
When it comes to social media, thereâs a similar dynamic at play. Human writing, good or bad, was inherently rate-limited; LLM output is not. If someone spent hours or days writing an article, it clearly mattered to them and I could spare minutes of my time to read and engage. For LLM output, this no longer holds. Thereâs an infinite supply of content entirely disconnected from the human condition that still demands your attention and time.
In contrast to infosec, social media engagement isnât utilitarian: you gain nothing if you read 1,000 machine-generated opinion pieces a day. Promoters say that it shouldnât matter who or what is doing the writing â you should only ask if the output is good. To me, quality is secondary. I come here to talk to humans, not to yell into the probabilistic token-void.
Yes, there are rare exceptions, there are people who use LLMs as an assistive technology, and so on. But in 99% of the cases, if you couldnât be bothered to write it, I wonât bother to read it. Default deny.
Micropatches released for Desktop Window Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2026-20871)
https://0patch.com/blog/micropatches-released-for-desktop-window-manager-elevation-of-privilege-vulnerabi
In response to a #FOIA request from me the #FBI have released records relating to late 90s #hacker group milw0rm. Additional records not included in this Vault release were located by the FBI and I have requested these be processed for potential release as well.
https://vault.fbi.gov/milw0rm/milw0rm-final/view
RSS is a secret trick to making the internet more usable. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate-algorithm-rss-one-tools-youve-been-looking
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@CrackMeIfYouCan/116904210214745592
I will be joining as an internet random... no real hope of cracking much.. If anyone wants to form an infosec.exchange or infosex.eccgang team, I am open!