Is Artificial Intelligence A Threat To Privacy And Free Speech?

 Businesses, government organisations and even our humble laptop and desktop computers at home are being under constant attack, not by hackers and cybercriminals but by Search Engine Technology Operators, Social Media Networks and online marketplaces. So what’s the last thing we need corportions like Microsoft, Alphabel and Apple to do? Actually it is the very thing they are doing, which is to make the attacks easier, and park the most sensitive data in all levels of systems in front of the house with a “take what you want” sign.

As companies and governments become increasingly obsessed with artificial intelligence (AI), they are not just creating back doors into software and operating systems, flinging open all the doors that really should be locked very tight – and in many cases, they don’t even know they’ve done it.

To illustrate the potential damage AI data mining could do, security expert Michael Bargury uses Microsoft’s own demonstration site fo their "software as a service" product" Microsoft 365. He easily makes changes to the business’s bank details; staff are oblivious to the change.

Bargury, chief technology officer of Tel Aviv-based security firm Zenity, is one of the leading experts in exploring how business Artificial Intelligence can be used for mischief.

This kind of attack exploits one of AI’s key selling points to business: its ability to automate repetitive tasks. Previously, getting a hack to work required knowledge of a scripting language to run Operating Sytem commands. Now, anyone can create a bot with a couple of clicks, and it’s turning hacking into a public sport.

In the past, many hacks also required hundreds of hours of social engineering and a bit of behavioural science knowhow to nudge individuals into clicking on the vital link. But with Microsoft’s Copilot and other business AI bots, all provided for the user's 'convenience' and to make computers more user friendly, people with relitavely low leves of tech skill can simply say a set of words and open a Pandora’s box. Bargury calls it “promptware”.

The typical Fortune 500 company already runs around 3,000 Copilot AI bots, and some 63pc of private business chatbots can be operated by the public. “All of the defaults are insecure,” an astonished Bargury discovered.

Things are about to get much worse.

While Microsoft has changed the defaults, the underlying problem is not fixable, which is that AI can’t distinguish between data and computer instructions. I may send you a one-line message wishing you happy birthday that contains hidden hacking instructions – and the AI will obliviously let it happen. It is what I have always called 'The stupidity of Artificial Intelligence.' To put it simply a modern computer can parse millions of words in alphanumeric text in seconds but have no inkling of what anything in ll that content means. The computer is not intelligent, it hs no mind, no consciousness, no moral compass, it merely compares and matches strings of binary data (not 'little ones and zeros' as many younger generation computer pros will unhelpfully explain, but miniscule negative or positive charcges of static electricity.

Microsoft claims it is constantly revising the “guard rails” on its large language models, but Bargury isn’t impressed. “Guard rails aren’t enough because it’s not a solvable problem,” he says.

Security has always been a serious inbuilt fault of Microsoft products. They default to 'open-ness'. The famous hacker Gary McKinnon got himself into trouble because he searched for Microsoft PCs where the default administrator account (name: Administrator, password: none) was not changed on public networks, including NASA and the military. He advised people that the easiest way to protect themselves from intrusion was just to rename the admin account and add a password!

The truth is Microsoft did not want people protecting their own system because that could make access to systems for puroses Microsoft did not publicly comment on more difficult. But this fact alone speaks volumes about how MIcrosoft views security and privacy. 

The idea of the new Recall feature defaulting to being on as opposed to being turned off is, imho, immoral and arguably even criminal. Microsoft claim, of course, that the feature is not a threat to privacy but a tool to help users keep track of their activity, but it is actually a surveillance tool, and the biggest customers for data scraped up by this tool are governments.

I am already aware of how to turn it off even though I will not be upgrading to a Windows 11 PC for some years. I have only recently moved on to Windws 10, like many other ol school computer pros I like to be well behind the bleeding edge. 

It should be a subject of legislation that all devices, be they a humble toaster, or work computer must come locked down during installation and that the user is forced during install to choose passwords and has to take active measures to open up devices to networks and AI rather than research how to lock them down. 

The biggest problem with AI (apat from its innate stupidity) is that it breaks down boundaries we have traditionally and for very good reasons, maintained in the offline world, where information was privileged, and was only shared on a need-to-know basis. Now we’re making everything accessible to anyone and anything that has a network interface.

Rather like The Suckophant, a cartoon monster in the Beatles’ movie Yellow Submarine, AI devours all the other monsters, then its creator (the Beatles,) and eventually the screen itself. In summary, it’s a lethal combination: we’re allowing far more people to do more stupid things far more easily, while exposing far more private information to the bad people.

 

 

 

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Microsoft Software Catastrophe? We Should Have Seen Through Windows Years Ago.

 by Ian R Thorpe, 19 July 2024

A worldwide problem with Windows computer operating systems has caused mayhem for all types of business around the world. Airlines grounded hundreds of flights, trains and buses were cancelled. Shops and other buinesses were unable to proess card payments. Doctors’ surgeries, hospitals, television stations, payment platforms – virtually all sectors of human society have been affected And the cybersecurity firm whose software update caused the problem are warning it may take days or even weeks to get everything running prpery. 

Apparently the problem was caused by an update to an anti - hacking program loaded to computers overnight. So far Microsoft has ruled out a cyber attack and pointed the finger of blame at CrowdStrike, a company specializing in safe-guarding systems against cyber attacks.

So rather ironic but then my experieces with a security firm which bears a name that should have warned me they're a bunch of pirates, have taught me that having an anti - virus package can be as bad as, if not worse than having a virus on your computer.

Allegedly the fault that caused today's chaos was due to a software update, CrowdStrike’s CEO George Kurtz has already begun the public mea culpa, but at the same time warned it wouldn’t be a quick fix:

Well Crowdsrike may have fucked up their software, but the wider problem is the inevitable result of an operating system architecture that really just an aglommeration of barely related modules, patches, fixes, widgets, bells and whistles grown piecemeal over the sapce of thirty years to suit primarily the commercial interests of the providers rather than the interests of the users. Countries like Russia and China that have evolved their own independent systems partly due to sanctions policies but largely due to common sense have been unaffected0 by this outage.

I have often atracted a lot of abuse for saying this but I reckon that our hamfisted trading and sanctions policies are actually doing our ‘adversaries’ a favor. It was always utter folly to move to a situation in whih the majority of our commercial, economic and social activity is totally dependent on a single, rather dodgy technology. Yes I'm talking about Windows. It isn't a fully integrated software suite as one would expect for somthing so vital to the world, but a mash up of software oddments, piled layer upon layer and held together with the digital equivalent of string and sticky tape.

To illustrate what I mean about the shoddiness of this product and the output from Silicon Valley in general I recently, just for fun, (we old guys who in the early part of our careers wrote software for mainframes have a strange idea of fun,) drilled down through the various layers of Windows 10 and found that its living, beating heart is the old DOS kernel that powered the first IM 8086 PCs in 1981.

Until May tgis year I was mainly using Win 7 with no problem while the WIN 10 computer I bought four years ago gathered dust because I hated the operting system so much there was a major risk every time I booted up that it wouldgo through the (glass( window in a very short time. 

In my not so humble opinion the Windows operating system was perfected with XP, after the disaster of Windows Vista Win 7 was really just XP with added annoying features. Back then applications were purchased not rented and usually functioned perfectly, or if they didn't, could be reloaded from CD or the dowloaded source code. After that it was all downhill, Win 8,10, 11 made stupid alterations to turn Windows into a middleman for BigTech's software-as-a-service scam, and a surveillance engine to sell god knows what private information to advertising firms and government. (Remember MS’s claim the “W10 would be the last W”?) Once a tool for users, 8-11 make users into tools of Microsoft and Commerce ambitions. Once a service, now an overlord.

Luckily for us eccentrics there have been Open Office and its successor Libre Office, Mozilla (and TOR if you're a privacy junkie,) and loads more free or very cheap software to do just about everything we might want to.

Today's event is a perfect example of what centralized/global organizing produces. Catastrophes. This transition to virtualized life worked on since the mid 90’s via computers is a pie in the sky dream of billionaire psychopaths and political control freaks. Now they have centralized everyone on a grid, a network of dependence, all users are vulnerable and without localized options that existed before. They wish. Seducing us with “convenience”, then when we all sign up, they have the world by the bollocks. Add in AI (requiring 2x all current power plant output) they believe they will assume absolute control over everything, centrally. Cupid stunts.

Linux, open source software is an option as well as non-participation via Win7. Gen 6 Intel machines can be rolled back successfully and then one can use all the robust software up until about 2015, free of rentier landlordism. And the “cloud” is just a massive surveillance and intellectual property theft device for elites. Once we are all over to Linux the old mainstream software and new independent software still open to 7 will be available through Linux/software configuration schemes. Also acts of non-participation, grassroots.

As i keep saying, the 21st C elites no longer have anything to offer Humanity with their “progress” and “convenience” offerings.

Mass centralization schemes (Digital cash, biotracking IDs, massvax) will never work as dreamed so best to pull out now. The current nightmare is the tip of an iceberg of dysfunction ahead. The sooner one withdraws to historically safe, localized systems of sharing support, the sooner we move from 1% obsolete growth cult to 99% maintenance sustainability. 

Sans 1% of course.

 

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Climate Scare Profiteer Bill Gates Makes Sudden U-Turn On Climate Doom Narrative

23 September 2023

Microsoft co-founder, philanthropist, and climate alarmist Bill Gates has backtracked on 'climate doom' prophecies. The writing is on the wall for the political and financial elites, who have long championed imminent climate doom, realizing that the public sees through the charades. 

In 2021 the self appointed global vaccine Czar Bill Gates was warning about the apocalyptic consequences if the world does not achieve zero net carbon emissions by the year 2050. He also promoted his new book, "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster." Well fear sells and Gates knows how to make money.)

But now the Microsoft founder and former world's richest billionaire psychopath seems to have changed his tune on climate catastrophe just as he recently did on COVID vaccines when sold his stock in vaccine maker Bio-n-Tec shortly before admitting the jabs, the development of which he funded and from which he profited hugely, are not safe and do not work. On Thursday, Gates made a sudden U-turn on his climate doom narrative and now expects "No temperate country is going to become uninhabitable."

Gates spoke at a live event at The Times Center in New York and argued: "If you try to do climate brute force, you will get people who say, 'I like climate but I don't want to bear that cost and reduce my standard of living."

He also dismissed planting trees to save the planet, questioning: "Are we the science people or are we the idiots?" he said. "Which one do we want to be?"

Gates' latest comments are a stark difference from just a few years ago when he warned "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace: 

"The migration that we saw out of Syria for their civil war, which was somewhat weather dependent, we're going to have 10 times as much migration because the equatorial areas will become unlivable." 

Gates' U-turn comes as BlackRock CEO Larry Fink abandoned the term "ESG" (environment, social, and governance). And the 'green bubble' is imploding. The way 'green' investments have been losing money this year makes Fink's position understandable but why the change from Gates? Could it be that one of his money making schemes, that of persuading governments to pay one of his companies to block the sun's rays from hitting the earth by spraying clouds of reflective chemicals in the upper atmosphere has been met with the level of ridicule and derision it deserves.how to make bread dough with a mixer

In spite of this apparent change of heart Gates is still eyeing opportunities to profit to the tune of $hundreds of millions from climate changed. He told the New York Times sponsored event, "

“I’m the person who is doing the most on climate in terms of the innovation and how we can square multiple goals,” Gates said, (well nobody ever accused him of underestimating his own importance,) as he argued for a tech-driven approach to tackle climate change. His charitable organisation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a major donor to climate causes. And his climate-focused investment firm, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, backs more than a dozen startups developing clean energy solutions, all of which share the goal of making more profits to enable the Gates foundation to fund more for - profit startups which in turn will make even more profits for Gates' philanthropic ventures, all of which seem to make the foundation and Gates himself even wealthier.

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In this age of digital censorship, where prominent buzzwords are used as justification to silence free speech, the coalition sees a new opportunity to trample the First Amendment while claiming some kind of moral high ground for preserving “truth” online.

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by Ethan Huff, News Target 28 May 2020

Bill Gates - wannabe Dr. Death? (picture: NewsTarget.com)

The reason why Microsoft co-founder and billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates is being given so much airtime amid the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis is because Gates is currently the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines, as well as the money behind the mass vaccination agenda.

Gates is also the single-largest donor to both the World Health Organization (WHO), which is currently under investigation by the United States for its handling of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and the CDC Foundation, both of which act as marketing arms for his global vaccine empire.

There is no doubt that Gates lives to vaccinate, his number-one goal being to jab every single person on the planet with his many vaccines. Gates actually stated about a year-and-a-half ago that “vaccine hesitancy” is a top “global health threat” that must be dealt with if the world is going to “progress” in the direction he wants.

Other recipients of moneys from Gates include Adam Schiff’s Intelligence Committee Chair PAC (political action committee), to which Gates has maxed out his legal contributions. Schiff, as you may recall, called on Facebook, Google, and Amazon back in early 2019 to censor all “vaccine misinformation” from their platforms.

“Vaccines are both effective and safe,” Schiff wrote in a letter to these tech giants. “There is no evidence to suggest that vaccines cause life-threatening or disabling disease.”

These obvious Gates-inspired talking points were accompanied by Schiff pushing a bill one year prior that would have increased the kangaroo “Vaccine Court” budget by another $11,200,000. This fund has already paid out some $4 billion to families of children who suffered disability and/or death due to vaccination, but it requires even more to handle a growing vaccine injury backlog ... Continue reading >>>

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The Internet Purge Of Politically Incorrect (aka truthful) Content Begins.

When US President barack Hussein Obama (the cocksucker president) in one of his moves aimed at sucking
offup to the globalist millionaires who are trying to abolish free speech and democracy signed over (ilegally and unconstitutionally) to the United Nations the USA's control of ICANN, the nearest thing the internet has to date had to a governing body, it was obvious that censorship of web content was coming soon.

It was actually only a couple of months ago (at the time of writing) since Obama handed the internet to a bunch of unelected bureaucrats and already the moves to erase all content not approved by globalist propaganda managers have begun. Today we learned from
 Yahoo! News:

Web giants YouTube , Facebook , Twitter and Microsoft will step up efforts to remove extremist content from their websites by creating a common database.

The companies will share ‘hashes’ – unique digital fingerprints they automatically assign to videos or photos – of extremist content they have removed from their websites to enable their peers to identify the same content on their platforms.

“We hope this collaboration will lead to greater efficiency as we continue to enforce our policies to help curb the pressing global issue of terrorist content online,” the companies said in a statement on Tuesday.

[…]

The European Union set up an EU Internet Forum last year bringing together the internet companies, interior ministers and the EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator to find ways of removing extremist content.

Facebook, Google (owners of YouTube) and Microsoft have long been known as CIA collaborators and it has been acknowledged that Obama's move in divesting the US government of responsibility for ICANN allows The White House to make outraged noises about suppression of free speech while using Search Engine Operators as proxies to shut down anything challinging US and NATO propaganda (on the grounds no doubt that challenging the politically correct orthodoxy constitutes hate speech.)

Do you see a pattern here. When the undefinable term 'hate speech'  was made a crime and subsequently became a more serious crome than murder, rape or throwing stones at small furry animals, nobody actually defined what hate speech was. In fact the term defies legal definition. Similarly who can define what extremist content is.

It was always obvious that someday, The Powers That Be simply wouldn’t allow certain things to remain on the Internet any longer. The potential to reach a global audience with important information, and the idea that it could be in the hands of anyone is just too big.
So it is no surprise that many corporate giants from Silicon Valley are now putting forward a unified front to silence free speech on social media.

Hashtags, keywords and flagged accounts, logged in various databases, will be shared and enforced across the web. Shutting down content identified as unacceptable will now be streamlined, and leave unpopular posters with fewer places to peddle their extremist, outside views.
 
Many current incidences are being used to push the idea that online policing is necessary and urgent

The recent “fake news” purging campaign has reached across the blogosphere and alternative media and punished websites that have dared to report on such taboo topics as Pizzagate, Wikileaks email dumps, US Government support of terrorists (ISIS, Al Nusra,) involved in the Syrian war and many other serious topics which agenda-driven CIA stooges like Microsoft, Google and Facebook have opted to suppress.

While these platforms offer the opportunity to reach a wide audience, the centrality of ubiquitous platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter is, obviously, that they have the power to delete accounts and drive down audience response by tweaking the algorithm.
They can make you invisible.

That is the state of free speech in 2016. It can be eradicated at a moment’s notice, and perhaps for reasons you aren’t even aware of.

Or so The Controllers and the semi - autistic nerds who run silicon valley think.

One of the ways the SEOs plan to control 'extremist content' in photo or video form is by assigning any file flagged as extremist, hate speech or containing 'trigger' phrases  digital fingerprints known as hashes.

While indexing ASCII text content is easily understood, the search operator's database simply keeps a highly compressed database of all text files, but by displaying an html document metatagged with the 'noindex' instruction within an iframe, such content is invisible to Though Police censorship bots, in reality disguising graphic or video content is even easier.
 

If you change one bit of information you change the entire cryptographic hash of the digital file.  They would be useless if it were otherwise.  So supposing I make a video and produce three slightly different versions: one with the Facebook logo, one with the youtube logo, and one with the twitter logo,  they will have different hashes so this intervention is completely invalidated by something that can be automated on the producers end.

Further, if the producer knows they've been blacklisted they can make some subtle change to the video to recompute the hash.  This can be done to the video or audio streams without comprising the experience for the vast majority of media consumers.

If changing one pixel in the entire video will throw off the hash, so changing a few frames, altering a video effect or something similar will fool the database and is an exercise that can be repeated many times . The SEOs know this of course but, fucktard libtards that they are, the arroggant idiots are in a panic,  the only thing going down will be their revenue. The internet does not work like the press or TV.  All they are doing is outing themselves as a censored and therefore unreliable and certainly not impartial source.  In  an environment where every opinion costs nothing to publish, selective silencing just exposes your agenda and bias,  nothing more. 



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US-EU Privacy Shield Data-Sharing Agreement Blasted as Inadequate

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Privacy campaigners have given an angry thumbs down anger to the newly published "Privacy Shield" agreement on data privacy betwen the USA and European Union. The Privacy Shield agreement which covers the privacy of data related to EU citizens held on US servers by multinational companies has been under negotiation for months ever since the because the European Court of Justice ruled in October 2015 that the previous EU-US data agreement — Safe Harbor — was invalid.

 The issue arises from the strict EU laws — enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — to the privacy of citizens personal data. As we all know thanks to the material leaked by Ed Snowden and others the United States National Security Agency (NSA) does not regard anything as private, and in collaboration with internet and technology giants like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook and Verizon (just a small selection there) have been exploiting specially created software 'postern gates' to plunder data from users computers.

 Safe Harbor was a quasi-judicial understanding that the US government would ensure that EU citizens' data on US servers would be held and protected under the same restrictions as it would be under EU law and directives. The data covers a huge array of information — from Internet and communications usage, to sales transactions, import and exports.

When Maximillian Schrems, a Facebook user, filed a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, arguing that "in the light of the revelations by ex-CIA contractor Edward Snowden of mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA)" the transfer of data from Facebook's Irish subsidiary onto the company's servers in the US do not provide sufficient protection of his personal data.

The court ruled that "the Safe Harbor Decision denies the national supervisory authorities their powers where a person calls into question whether the decision is compatible with the protection of the privacy and of the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals."

In a swift reaction to the publication of the new data privacy protocol, Schrems said:

"The new deal does not even address the matter of private sector data misuse, despite the fact that there would have been much more leeway than in the government sector.  There are tiny improvements, but the core rules on private data usage are miles away for EU law. This is nowhere close to 'essential equivalence' that the Court required."

"Basically the US openly confirms that it violates EU fundamental rights in at least six cases. The Commission claims that there is no 'mass surveillance' anymore.  It used to be the other way around. This charade is not only bluntly in conflict with the law and the Court judgement but also with the documents the Commission presented".

Anna Fielder, chair of Privacy International said:

"It's still a half-baked agreement. The [proposed] ombudsman is based in the US equivalent of the Foreign Office. We don't know what kind of independence it will have. The [European Court of Justice in its October ruling] demanded an independent authority and this is scarcely independent. How do I know that my data has been abused?"

It is typical of the United states government of course to break deals,  violate legally binding agreements and stab its allies in the back. The current US President is a wannabe God - King who reularly wipes his arse on his counry's consitiution, so how can we expevt civil servants to act any differently.

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Hillary Steals Iowa Caucus On Her Way To Jail?

In the Iowa caucus for the Democratic Party nomination six precincts were decided by the toss of a coin with Hillary Clinton's supporters winning all six by calling 'heads each time. Hillary won the nomination by 4 precincts. What a bunch of tossers.

While this blog has only taken the position of an impartial onlooker in the contests for Democratic and Republican nominations for the US Presidential elections, while Donald Trump has cause much hilarity but despite being beaten into ssecond place last still has the wind behind him as his lead among the republican hopefuls in opinion polls continues to increase, the Democrats contest is shaping up to be a much nastier affair.

In the first situation in which actual votes are cast, the Iowa caucus (I've no idea how a caucus differs from a primary, nor do I care) Hillary Clinton appears to have secured a narrow victory over rival Bernie Sanders by six tosses of a coin.

A typical result was recorded in the city of Ames, which is around 30 miles (48km) north of the state capital Des Moines, and is home to Iowa State University.

“A total of 484 eligible caucus attendees were initially recorded at the site. But when each candidate’s preference group was counted, Clinton had 240 supporters, Sanders had 179 and Martin O’Malley had five (causing him to be declared non-viable),” said David Schweingruber, a sociology professor at Iowa State University, who was present at the caucus and explained the situation to the Des Moines Register.

The discrepancy prompted the precinct leaders to call a Democratic Party hotline, in order to find out how the missing votes situation should be handled. Despite having the latest technology (a Microsoft vote counting app thaty was declaring Hillary the winner before votes were even counted) at their disposal, the Democrat Party hierarchy decided the best course of action would be to go back to basics and settle the dispute with a coin toss!

A supporter in the Clinton camp correctly called “heads” meaning that Clinton picked up five of the eight delegates in precinct 2-4 Ames.

However, this was anything but an isolated incident. Two precincts in Des Moines and one each in Newton, West Branch and Davenport all had to be decided by the toss of the coin.

Amazingly, Clinton managed to win each of these coin tosses, which helped her to eventually secure victory in the Iowa Caucus.

Democratic Party figures stated that Clinton won by just four delegates, in a result Sanders called a “virtual tie.” The Des Moines Register reported.

You might say this proves those commentators who said Hillary would rely on money to win the nomination were absolutely right.

It also proves the Democratic Party are a bunch of tossers.

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