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Re: Garak, LLM Vulnerability Scanner

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https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080135/avast-security-p... I think you can find more stuff like this through your own digging.

Not what I'd consider a trojan, but I agree that it's bad - so alright, point taken. (In my dictionary, trojan allows remote control. Maybe I'm just old.)

In my dictionary, a trojan is any malicious software that is hidden inside useful software, no matter what it does.

Re: Garak, LLM Vulnerability Scanner

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post #11

Ah, this is an ((LLM vulnerability) scanner) not (LLM (vulnerability scanner)) which I thought would be a terrible idea and couldn't understand why everyone was joking about the lies. I also am not a Trekkie, so I had to look up all the tailor references but the character's philosophy makes sense for the name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elim_Garak#:~:text=the%20truth...

Thank you for clarifying. I also initially thought it was an (LLM (vulnerability scanner)).

must be a reflection how people are thinking; since I'm infosec oriented, I interpreted it as ((LLM vulnerability) scanner)

Re: Garak, LLM Vulnerability Scanner

#43
post #30

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Yeah, but this megacorporation is not a resistance fighter. It's not even as human as the cardassians.

I get that making GPUs isn't the most environmentally friendly, but the Cardassians literally conqured the homrworld of the Bajorans and enslaved them and strip mined their planet for fifty years. Whatever crimes you think Nvidia is guilty of, they have, at most, one planet they've done things to.

You probably misposted, this doesn't seem to have anything to do with what I wrote above.

Re: Garak, LLM Vulnerability Scanner

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post #43

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I get that making GPUs isn't the most environmentally friendly, but the Cardassians literally conqured the homrworld of the Bajorans and enslaved them and strip mined their planet for fifty years. Whatever crimes you think Nvidia is guilty of, they have, at most, one planet they've done things to.

You probably misposted, this doesn't seem to have anything to do with what I wrote above.

You wrote that Nvidia is inhuman, and that the Cardassians are more human that it, but the Cardassians commited horrible warcrimes while Nvidia, as far as I know, has not.

Re: Garak, LLM Vulnerability Scanner

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080135/avast-security-p... I think you can find more stuff like this through your own digging.

Not what I'd consider a trojan, but I agree that it's bad - so alright, point taken. (In my dictionary, trojan allows remote control. Maybe I'm just old.)

Typically they do, the infrastructure is there with automatic updates and C&C-like abilities. The driver runs close to the kernel to be able to use hooks into files closing and so on, at least on MICROS~1 operating systems.

Did the Crowdstrike thing earlier this year reach you? They sell a corporate version of this kind of trojan, and did a fuckup in an update, suddenly making a lot of people realise that someone else has control over their computers.

Re: Garak, LLM Vulnerability Scanner

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post #43

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You probably misposted, this doesn't seem to have anything to do with what I wrote above.

You wrote that Nvidia is inhuman, and that the Cardassians are more human that it, but the Cardassians commited horrible warcrimes while Nvidia, as far as I know, has not.

Horses are human, because they do not commit war crimes?

I'm sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about. Yes, I pointed out that corporations aren't human, for example lacking in things like having a body.

Re: Garak, LLM Vulnerability Scanner

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post #35
post #28

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I guess I was a bit direct but I don't fully understand the down vote. I was not implying that the README was bad and it does have corrections that would improve it. My reason for not raising a PR is some repo owners don't care and I really didn't want to go through the effort unless they actually care.

This is actually pretty cool. Would love to try it!

Re: Garak, LLM Vulnerability Scanner

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post #35
post #28

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[flagged]

I guess I was a bit direct but I don't fully understand the down vote. I was not implying that the README was bad and it does have corrections that would improve it. My reason for not raising a PR is some repo owners don't care and I really didn't want to go through the effort unless they actually care.

Also, FYI, the majority of "errors" found by your tool are not actually errors.

Re: Garak, LLM Vulnerability Scanner

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post #22

Garak is a former spook that served an explicitly genocidal fascist regime and repeatedly tries to get back in and moonlights as a terrorist and starts a war. It's a borderline insane branding of this corporate tool. Words and stories apparently mean nothing to these people, so if allowed they'll probably destroy the lot of it for all of us.

I am sure the bajorans among us are appalled

Was waiting for someone to call it "tacky Cardassian fascist eyesore".

Re: Garak, LLM Vulnerability Scanner

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080135/avast-security-p... I think you can find more stuff like this through your own digging.

Not what I'd consider a trojan, but I agree that it's bad - so alright, point taken. (In my dictionary, trojan allows remote control. Maybe I'm just old.)

I read the original comment as hyperbole. But can see why it was confusing.

Edit: that came out way more condescending than I intentended

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