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Comment Re:LOL wut? (Score 2) 35

AI agents have different level of access. You can of course give it automatic access and let it delete all your files if it needs more disk space, but you can also have it ask you for every action, for not whitelisted actions, or restrict which files it can access. Different software implements different controls, but most have a "YOLO" mode and a more sane mode that doesn't allow it to delete your hard drive without asking.

Comment Re:I'll take $10K (Score 1) 119

Let's say that probably all of us can agree that industries should have proper waste management and there should be tight control, which should be the tighter the more toxic the waste is. Maybe this wasn't clear, but any chemical used in DC's should OF COURSE be disposed in a correct way. The important point was, that a closed loop cooling system with anti corroding chemicals is not the worst offender in industry. That doesn't mean you should just dispose it into the next river. And I guess the US doesn't have the best consumer protection laws.

Comment Re:I'll take $10K (Score 1) 119

Do you REALLY think this is a problem? Do you really think nobody thought about this ever before even though there are thousands of data centers being used since decades? Either you're falling for the current propaganda, or you're spreading it.

If you care about chemical pollution, you better not look at real industries. There you have way more and way more toxic waste. So please don't contribute to the "data center bad!" FUD.

Comment Re:Surprise? (Score 1) 41

What else should they do? You cannot write in the ToS "We reject to follow the governing laws". The only thing you can do is to minimize your own options, like verifying a PIN against a secure element that has a baked in backoff delay.

Even then it is unclear if laws like the patriot act cannot force the company to implement a backdoor in this process so they are able the next time. So maybe the secure element enforces the brute-force protection, but the next update can make the pin entry screen save the pin into not so secure memory (basically acting as keylogger).

Comment Surprise? (Score 2) 41

I won't expect US devices not to have government backdoors in one way or another. Sure they can talk a lot about secure elements and so on. The actual backdoor is then placed somewhere else and doesn't need to crack that.

If a device is in regular use (no before first unlock state), I for example expect that both Apple and Google are willing to push a special update to the device. Both stores are capable of installing apps without user interaction on the device and any limitations why this usually needs user confirmation when triggered via web can be bypassed by the companies. Both stores run with elevated privileges and can probably push more changes than just installing and updating apps (which still would run in a sandbox).

I would not even fully trust the hardware. It is way harder to find backdoors in there. Again they probably rather target the firmware of the modem or something like this and not the secure element. Every security researcher focuses on if the security features are watertight, so you place something that can access data once the secure element is unlocked somewhere where nobody is looking for it.

That's also why Graykey has less options (they leaked slides some time ago) in the before first unlock state: If the encrypted partition is not mounted (or the FS based encryption not unlocked) you need to target the secure components instead of having some trojan software exfilterating the unlocked data.

Comment Re: I'll take $10K (Score 1) 119

First "Do your own research" now "Ask an AI" ... Do you know how to deal with damn sources, or are your really just arguing "Pick the first Google/AI result and you'll see"? At the moment you called me an idiot the discussion ended. Go discuss with your AI, if you think that's better than having actual sources. Bye.

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