Shocking. /s
No current technology can distinguish between good guys and bad guys. There's like a pervasive ideological discomfort with that basic fact. You see it again and again on every regulation debate.
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2024
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I get what you mean by highlighting that no current technology can distinguish between good and bad guys, but I feel there will never be a technology that can do that. A backdoor can easily be used by your government/law enforcement to suppress people and eliminate freedoms, even if there may have been best initial intentions for such a backdoor. This is a fundamentally human -rather than a technological- issue.
but I feel there will never be a technology that can do that.
That's my best guess too, but someone could plausibly argue otherwise. I just went with something undisputable that still illustrates the main point.
Here I’ve built software that can detect the difference between good guys and bad guys, it uses Artificial Intelligence.
I mean, that's what it would have to be, right? OP probably thinks it's impossible because GAI is impossible. I think it's likely impossible because there's no moral system that's both totally specific and which we could all agree on, even roughly.
Either way, a good guy detector is far off at the very least, and we're going to have to struggle for the cause of good, whatever that may be, the old fashioned political way.
Mother of god if someone actually tried to push that I would run for office for the explicit purpose of killing it dead and loudly vilifying the dumbfuck who thought of it into never making anything again.
Wait, you mean doors work for other people too?
Got down voted for this on another thread...
Better question... Who gave chinaman the keys that only should belong to our dearest spooks
That was probably for the extremely outdated and racist use of “chinaman”. Even if you were using like Florida Man, it’s still a good word to avoid.
Didn't use the term there but on the side note lol
Next you gonna tell me I should not hurt the federal agents feels too
Glowies got feelings, mate 🤡
Schneier is one of the two security experts I have in my RSS feeds, the other being Brian Krebs. Bruce Schneier is a smart guy.
Though a superhero, Bruce Schneier disdains the use of a mask or secret identity as 'security through obscurity'.
I have one degree of personal separation from Brian Krebs, it makes me feel way cooler than it probably should lol.
Me too :-)