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Cake day: July 10th, 2025

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  • Zero day exploits, aka vulnerabilities that aren’t publicly known, offer hackers the ability to essentially rob people blind.

    Open source code means you have the entire globe of developers collaborating to detect and repair those vulnerabilities. So while it’s not inherently more secure, it is in practice.

    Exploiting four zero-day flaws in the systems,[8] Stuxnet functions by targeting machines using the Microsoft Windows operating system and networks, then seeking out Siemens Step7 software. Stuxnet reportedly compromised Iranian PLCs, collecting information on industrial systems and causing the fast-spinning centrifuges to tear themselves apart.[3] Stuxnet’s design and architecture are not domain-specific and it could be tailored as a platform for attacking modern SCADA and PLC systems (e.g., in factory assembly lines or power plants), most of which are in Europe, Japan and the United States.[9] Stuxnet reportedly destroyed almost one-fifth of Iran’s nuclear centrifuges.[10] Targeting industrial control systems, the worm infected over 200,000 computers and caused 1,000 machines to physically degrade.

    Stuxnet has three modules: a worm that executes all routines related to the main payload of the attack, a link file that automatically executes the propagated copies of the worm and a rootkit component responsible for hiding all malicious files and processes to prevent detection of Stuxnet.

    Wikipedia - Stuxnet Worm









  • You purposely pick up and sit in silence? Not even a “Yo”, “Sup”, or “Aye”?

    Yup. AI spam calls generally hang up within 3 seconds if they don’t hear a voice on the other end. It’s when they detect a voice that the auto dialer connects you with the scammer.

    Meanwhile 99% of the people I want to talk to are contacts in my phone or businesses with caller id.

    I don’t answer calls from random numbers anyways so it’s largely irrelevant unless I’m expecting calls for some reason.


  • At this point I’d believe AGI already exists and “AI Slop” is just a psy-opp.

    Like how do people reconcile recognizing how AI is negatively effecting society but denying that it could get exponentially more harmful?

    AI-agents (not AGI) will change cyberwarfare like nuclear weapons changed convetional warfare.

    Meanwhile true AGI almost certainly presents an existential threat to humanity. If for no other reason than our own laziness.