These kind of analogies are always a bit of an eye roll for me but I’ll grant a few points for creativity here
Andres Freund and the xz backdoor
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#12In an otherwise well written and accessible article, I found the naming of example nations gratuitous: > some researchers believe only a nation with formidable hacking chops, such as Russia or China, could have attempted it. … or the US, UK, Israel, Germany, France, Canada, Australia, DPRK, Japan, etc, and the security offence companies that work as a supply chain for such nations in provision of embedded exploits. I…
The Stasi sometimes used real names for cover names as well so you could draw no conclusions at all from a fake identity, not even by process of elimination. At the end of the day I don't think you can infer anything from the names or geolocations involved.
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#13Ahh, the voices...
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#14It's strange to see this included randomly in the middle of the article.
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#15> (The New York Times has sued Microsoft and its partner OpenAI on claims of copyright infringement involving artificial intelligence systems that generate text.) It's strange to see this included randomly in the middle of the article.
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#16> (The New York Times has sued Microsoft and its partner OpenAI on claims of copyright infringement involving artificial intelligence systems that generate text.) It's strange to see this included randomly in the middle of the article.
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#17"Engineers have been circulating an old, famous-among-programmers web comic about how all modern digital infrastructure rests on a project maintained by some random guy in Nebraska. (In their telling, Mr. Freund is the random guy from Nebraska.)" No, it's Lasse Collin the _maintainer_ of xz..
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#18In an otherwise well written and accessible article, I found the naming of example nations gratuitous: > some researchers believe only a nation with formidable hacking chops, such as Russia or China, could have attempted it. … or the US, UK, Israel, Germany, France, Canada, Australia, DPRK, Japan, etc, and the security offence companies that work as a supply chain for such nations in provision of embedded exploits. I…
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#19> (The New York Times has sued Microsoft and its partner OpenAI on claims of copyright infringement involving artificial intelligence systems that generate text.) It's strange to see this included randomly in the middle of the article.
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#20> (The New York Times has sued Microsoft and its partner OpenAI on claims of copyright infringement involving artificial intelligence systems that generate text.) It's strange to see this included randomly in the middle of the article.