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by randmeerkat 1022 days ago
> Unnecessary risk to everything and everyone else on the internet eventually. AI will create perfect Sybil attacks. The reality dictates our need of a signal for humanness. To know an interaction is a real human and not an indistinguishable simulation of one. Picture if the internet was flooded with 100 trillion malign actors and trolls, each tireless, merciless, skilled at both social manipulation and cyber attacks, with no way to tell if they are real people or not. Even a live video call with them cannot be trusted, not even if they look and sound like someone you know.

And secure boot on ESP32s is what will save us from this dystopian vision of the future..?