alt Hacker NewsAny sufficiently determined individual can buy mac mini, put it under their bed, configure outside proxy via some random internet address and prompt "iterate on websites in the CT logs, one by one, try to find vulnerabilities, if you did - encrypt their data and blackmail them for this bitcoin address". And it'll work, day and night. Abliterated GLM 5.3 is much smarter than average software developer, they know a lot about information security, they can use any available exploits, they can find novel vulnerabilities and they won't say "no". This is dangerous for an average IT system which never encountered nothing worse than some wordpress GET requests.
It's not the end of the world. But future will be rough.
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Glm 5.3 won't fit on a mac mini. The barrier to entry to host something scary is what, like $10k? 20k?
Wouldn't it just as easy to do this on the defense side as well then?
> It's not the end of the world. But future will be rough.
Short term you’re probably right, but longer term is the realm where nation states will start to police the avenues of attack.
This is what will lead to govt needing to attach an actual ID your network connection.
I think it’s a bit like frontier development (like the US “Wild West”). You rob a bank because there’s no one to stop you, and even if you do get identified you can travel enough distance to regain anonymity. Application of legal recourse eventually caught up (as it will here), and the growing pains will certainly make things suck for all of us.