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Comment · 9 days ago
Nor something that you want to remain private.
Comment · 1 month ago
It’s reckless hacking. Should be punished like reckless driving.
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
How do you verify the ‚beauty‘ of a result. There have always been infinite provable Theorems around. Only some are interesting and beautiful.
Comment · 3 months ago
> You set up an HTTP server that literally sends people the data when they request it. Don't do that if you don't want people to have the data.

By the same argument I could say: If I send you an exploit and you execute it, don’t complain that your setup fell for it. Just don’t download and run random data from the internet.

In reality there’s a consent and expectation beyond the pure technicals.

Comment · 4 months ago
Would that large trial have shown the cancerous effect of smoking? If not, do you then agree that some possible adverse effects were not checked for and could have slipped through?
Comment · 4 months ago
Of course, all the generated code has to reviewed and vetted for by a senior developer. Of course, this has to be re-done every now and then when new classes of vulnerabilities appear that the previous generation didn’t have in mind.

Or do you just trust the AI that was trained on a lot of bogus code?

Comment · 4 months ago
Hand in your paper when you’re on vacation or even better on a conference in Europe. GDPR will apply. Of course it will take so long that you won’t benefit from a decision for your studies. And one possible outcome is that your college won’t allow submitting from EU and won’t admit EU citizens (similar to US citizens having difficulties opening accounts in EU banks).
Comment · 4 months ago
While there was some intent to cause harm their attempts were amateurish. The actual damage was done by the agent setting up aws infrastructure not on the demands of the owner.
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
Yes, there are also many other lucrative illegal activities.
Comment · 6 months ago
> The cleanest mitigation is to return results in a canonical order, such as lexicographic sorting.

And hope that the sorting time cannot be used as a side channel.

Comment · 6 months ago
I agree it’s awkward. But I don’t find it creepy per se. It was a tradeoff to which all parties consented.

In one case there was just that one room available stranded in the middle of nowhere.

In other cases it was due to lack of financial resources.

Comment · 6 months ago
Example Finland. Could you end up in a nude Sauna with your superior? Yes, especially if it is same sex.

Example Germany. Which law would be broken? Internal compliance rules, yes, that would be often the case.

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