[AJ007]

"end-to-end message encryption is a sham as long as" -- I agree with that but would add even more caveats. If someone can't list those caveats off the top of their head they shouldn't be pretending they aren't able to communicate securely.

Just look at Salt Typhoon, every single person should be way more paranoid than they are, including government & agency officials. The attach surface and potential damage - financial and reputation - will only get worse with AI automation and impersonation, and that's for people who are doing nothing interesting and are law abiding citizens.

[sph]

Given the shoddy state of network security at large, especially on infrastructure projects (power plants, hospitals, dams, etc.) I always feel like major governments sit on so destructive potential to disrupt communications and anything connected to the Internet of its adversaries to have mutual assured destruction potential of a nuclear bomb.

No one’s crazy enough to push that button, because once you do there is no turning back.

[14]

I have often wondered about this exact situation. Like there are many instances of companies who depend on keeping their network secure and are actively taking preventative measures to keep their network safe that end up getting hacked. So surely there has to have been infiltration to some of the critical infrastructure keeping cities running. Why don't we hear more about it?

[BobbyTables2]

Only semi-conscientious companies will even KNOW they were compromised.

Suspect the rest are either not even looking and/or the attackers removed all their traces before anyone could possibly see.

When was the last time YOU inspected the authorization logs in systemd or the event log in Windows on your personal computer…

In Windows Defender we trust…

[microtonal]

I mean the Hungarian minister of Foreign Affairs briefed Lavrov on internal EU matters and there are recordings of one or more calls. It seems that opsec is bad at pretty much every level.

[alfiedotwtf]

We’re already forgetting when the Secretary of War invited a journalist to the secret SIGNAL group chat