Andy Micone (CISSP, MBA) is a CyberSecurity veteran and rancher. Managing Partner of Omnigenous. Member of the Association of Professional Futurists.
Ontario, OR
Joined August 2012
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It's kinda maddening watching people with performative Tourette's on YouTube & TikTok. It's kind of like what happens to people with service animals when a bunch of randos buy service-animal vests for their family pets and expect everyone to embrace their furbaby in public venues
The humanitarian Putin is now saying that Kyiv shouldn't have any objection to the Russian Federation's imperial ambitions to turn a third of Ukraine into a vassal state because their land was always Russia's. Why did we let Russia inherit the USSR's UNSC seat again?
Re: PHP vulnerability drops, people who make budget decisions love it when a company creates an emergency patching fire drill just to get to the exclusive first. OSS authors really love it too because they were up anyway, and they are well compensated to maintain their code.
Reviewing ignored DM's:
Him: Hey, It's [name]
Me: You aren't [name], I'm not sure of your intentions, but why don't you try them with someone else.
Him: I completely understand your skepticism, but I am [name] from [place]
Today he's a she from another place with another name.
This old Cold Warrior is asking why we're proposing to help out Russia with anything at all. When did they do us any favors?
I hate that every now and then reality slaps me in the face and says, "You should have gotten that PhD."
Drone defense might become a question of WWLD (What Would Lindbergh Do) if American satellite data providers become politically unpredictable.
In general, if you don't have a satellite to navigate with, you can do much more with a waypoint, a clock, a compass, and dead reckoning than common sense would suggest.
It might be time for drone tech to have fallback modes to old-school avigation techniques. Even American first-generation cruise missiles used to have an astrodrome to navigate by the stars when needed. With current tech, that's more viable now than ever.
An explainer of the Starlink situation from the inimitable @RyanMcbeth. Join his Substack; it's worth it.
This is disturbing. Dear @ElonMusk, please reconsider this decision for humanity's sake. Instead of thinking of Russia's diesel woes, think of kids dying in winter. Russia wants a "buffer zone"; Ukraine just wants to live. newrepublic.com/post/216600/…
I think a better question is: without the benefit of engaging a futurist or considering other possible scenarios, why are we all in on doomerism when the foreseeable future is the fate of the human labor force as AI slowly renders it obsolete?
...and the ICS guys say, "there's no such thing as an air gap, there's only slow bus, and fast bus. You can't stop it; you can just slow it down."
406 researchers, including Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Stuart Russell and Ron Rivest, signed an open letter today.
They want cyber-capable AI models airgapped by default until safer ways to give them internet access are standardized.
For models that need outside access, they propose an international body, built with governments and AI and security experts, that would standardize containment practices and track failures, with breaches reported to it and eventually made public.
If we put AI safety capabilities into smartwatches, the average smartwatch could thwart 2-3 smart fridges running frontier AI models at machine speed.
Watch out, the AI apocalypse is coming at a blazing IoT processor speed. Imagine a slow-motion singularity when, on average, it takes 15-40 smart ovens or washing machines to match the processing power of one smartwatch.
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team believes small AI models may now be months away from being capable of self replicating without access to a datacenter.
Quoting from the blog:
'The capabilities that make AI models generally powerful coding agents also generalize to cyber tasks, including autonomous replication. Like coding agents in 2024, we’re seeing signs of life for AI worms. We don’t yet have a full rogue replicator, but agents are becoming increasingly capable of completing the individual steps in the replication chain (and passing on their adaptations to future copies of themselves).
At the same time, increasing amounts of inference compute are now available both inside and outside of datacenters (see Appendix D). It’s uncertain exactly what form autonomous AI replication will take. It could be a slow, distributed “digital slime mold,” living on relatively insecure compute. It could also be a powerful cyber model that breaches datacenters at a high pace, or a model that scams people for compute credits.
As a prediction that goes beyond our experiments, we expect a future awash with agents running on all types of hardware, including some that aren’t under human control. While it’s true that IoT devices have been vulnerable for a long time, lightweight agents may be much more willing than human attackers to put in the effort to compromise large fractions of the world’s IoT compute. The rise of slow replicators would also be a bellwether for more aggressive, faster ones that can breach more hardened machines or be effective API key thieves. We should aim to harden our systems to make it difficult for such replicators to spread, but also prepare to deal with a world where they are here to stay.'
Makes you almost think we should have taken up Ukraine to help us out with drone interdiction, instead of investing in Putin's war (at minimal real cost relief to hard-working Americans). Slava Ukrani!
Using "cheap on cheap" interdiction, as Urkanie has mastered, is becoming essential to the modern battlefield. We export expensive weapons to countries flush with cash, and the built-in design assumptions can make them ineffective against new paradigms nbcnews.com/world/middle-eas…
...anyway, shameless self-promotion, I can fix your agribusiness security and my roping and riding skills are passable if required. Drop a DM.