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GossiTheDog

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Cybersecurity weather person and award winning shitposter. Shitposting is an anagram of Top Insights. You may be surprised to know I am not representing my employer here and these are not their opinions.

I have Direct Messages disabled - you can send them, but I will never receive them.

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It's 2am and I'm going through this Copilot+ PC (kindly provided) and we're into the profanity filtering.

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Amazingly not a single thing Microsoft has been working on with Recall and various AI services is on VirusTotal. It would be a shame if it got uploaded, right.

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It's actually pretty funny as you can just extract the wordlists from RAM and then use them against live Copilot, e.g. there's always allowed terms blah blah.

There's a similar thing where there's a bunch of Azure AI services run locally and it looks like a bunch of things overlap with the Azure hosted versions, people will definitely poke this while looking at Recall methinks.

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I just almost accidentally tooted a photo of my cat’s latest diarrhoea episode.

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My dog has started limping quite badly tonight and my cat keeps squirting shit, AMA

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time. Taking off from London City airport. Have a 24gb VRAM GPU... it is using 94% of the 24gb just at the airport.

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Up, up and away*.

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Twitter is wild for galaxy brain 'controversial' replies.

Microsoft could release Windows 12, where it automatically posts your screen to Instagram every 1 minute, and somebody would be like 'You can disable it if you want, it's fine, blowback totally overblown, people are just thick'.

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If you’re ever feeling sad in your career please remember that in 2017, Universal execs proudly announced to the world they were making a cinematic universe from The Mummy and The Invisible Man.

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Shout out to our cat, who had burned through another thousand quid in vets treatment in the past month.

sick cat GIF

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Synnovis aka Synlab, a key NHS frontline service supplier, has been hit by ransomware. #threatintel

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Statement from NHS on London hospital ransomware incident. HT @brett

https://www.england.nhs.uk/london/2024/06/05/nhs-london-statement-on-synnovis-ransomware-cyber-attack-2/

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As predicted there continues to be rolling media coverage. It is also on many reporters doorsteps, but attacks on the NHS are sadly not new.

It is indeed Qilin ransomware group, I have the ransom note.

The same company involved got hit by Black Basta recently.

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Very big cyber incident playing out at Snowflake, who describe themselves as “AI Data Cloud”. They have a free trial where anybody can sign up and upload data… and they have.

Threat actors have been scraping customer data using a tool called rapeflake, for about a month.

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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

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I hadn’t been aware until today of the external reaction to Recall. Holy shit. Tim Apple must be pleased.

Everything from media coverage to YouTube to TikTok is largely negative. All the comments are negative.

These videos have tens of millions of views and hundreds of thousands of comments.

I knew it would be bad but.. it’s worse. I’ve spent hours looking at the sentiment and.. well, they probably would have got better coverage from launching an NFT of pregnant Clippy.

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@gulovsen it has some natural query language and image classification stuff.. but it’s not really AI in my opinion, it doesn’t need an NPU chip.

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A key element of Recall is Microsoft say only you can access your Recall, it is per user.

ArsTechnica enabled Recall on Windows 11 box and tested the claim. By logging in as another user they could access the database and screenshots.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/windows-recall-demands-an-extraordinary-level-of-trust-that-microsoft-hasnt-earned/

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If you want to know how Microsoft have got themselves into this giant mess with Recall, here’s what the documentation says between the lines:

you, the customer, are a simpleton who doesn’t want to be an AI genius yet. Have a caveman mode.

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Recall and Copilot+ is also coming to ASUS systems, including AMD, in a deal with Microsoft.

ASUS Announces Complete Portfolio of AI-Powered Copilot+ PCs https://www.asus.com/us/news/pnm9tg6qccql6ern/

Nvidia announced they are bringing Copilot+ and Recall to PCs, in a deal with Microsoft: https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/2/24169568/microsoft-copilot-plus-gaming-pc-nvidia-amd

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Three Copilot+ Recall questions that keep coming up.

Q. Can you alter the Recall history?

A. Yes. You can change the OCR database and change the screenshots as the logged in user or as software running as the local user. There is no audit log of changes.

Q. Are they snapshots, as Microsoft says, or screenshots?

A. They are just screenshots, jpegs.

Q. What is to stop apps on your machine accessing your Recall covertly?
A. Nothing. There is no audit log of access.

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.@awakecoding becomes the latest person reverse engineering Microsoft Recall https://x.com/awakecoding/status/1798168395583746216

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If anybody is wondering what Microsoft's reaction to any of the Copilot+ Recall concerns are, they're continuing to decline comment to every media outlet.

I've seen comments MS staff have been given for enterprise customers, which are nonsense handwaving.

Product ships live on devices from Dell, Lenovo etc this month. https://x.com/zacbowden/status/1798221879741931847

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As @tiraniddo rightly points out, anybody can programmatically reach the Recall database without admin rights. https://infosec.exchange/@tiraniddo/112566044174482506

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AI Tech Bros are VERY UPSET that reviewers are REVIEWING PRODUCTS

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The Humane AI pin is being recalled as it has a risk of catching fire… which is also a metaphor for AI products.

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TIL - the Humane AI pin company is apparently doomed financially, and one of the largest investors is Sam Altman.

I wonder what else Sam Altman invested in.

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