I am a programmer in the year 2024 who doesn't use AI.
I'm not even curious about it.
It's not just the mistakes. Hallucinations. Artificial confidence.
It's not just the unconscionable energy use. Laundering and reinforcement of historical biases. Ripoff of creative works. Exploited workers. Scams. Bots. Political propaganda. Mass surveillance to train the beast. And this is just off the top of my head here.
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D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identify.
Hopefully folks realize they should replace it with another vendor.
This vuln was covered at DEF CON 32 by Sam Curry. TR-069 is an admin access protocol that lets DLink work with your router remotely (reset device, etc.). Bad actors use spoofed requests to change config data, read the MAC address, monitor traffic, and use them as botnets. TR-069 is industry standard
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/20/dlink_rip_replace_router/
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Just in case: DMs/PMs simply don't exist on this instance as concept — don't use them, use the other instance if you absolutely have to, or send an email to any address at m0xEE.Net or .Com or .Org, but I prefer keep most communication public.