I’m not a tin-foil hatter by any stretch of the imagination, but this has long been my assumption on why “AI” is being pushed down our throats so hard and from so many angles.
It’s almost the perfect spyware, really.
There is a reason the FIRST google implementation of AI was to just read all your emails and give you shitty inaccurate summaries of the content.
Like they’re barely trying to give you a product justification for invasively spying on you while you use your own computer.
You mean Gemini reading your emails? That’s way after Bard was a thing.
Plus, Apple AI is basically at the same level still.
If I control your agent, I control what you see, what you say, where you go, everything about your life that touches a computer…
Embedding AI in the operating system instead of as a normal program is something that should be punished.
Repeat irresponsible disclosure will not get you paid the same but will fix the architectural problem faster.
I expect that eventually windows will be anti-trusted again by established nations. we haven’t seen it since explorer but, eventually it will happen again.
It’s already been happening. It’s finally, actually, for reals, the year for Linux.
Meme aside, countries have started to get off the Microsoft tit.
It will happen guys! I swear! 🗞️
She’s right. End to end encryption doesn’t mean a lot when your own device can’t be trusted to not capture screenshots or store the contents of push notifications.
We just need biologically accelerated decryption mechanisms in our brain so we can read encrypted data directly. Keys are safely stored in a new organ which gets implemented at birth.
“Sorry, your neural architecture is incompatible with 2028 society unless you opt in to this neuralink cerebral TPM which will allow for communication and decryption of all new media. Without this upgrade you will be limited to only communicate with legacy users and consume only vintage advertising content.”
Cool concept <3
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Sounds more plausible than some of the tech talking points.
They “just” need the expantional growth to be linear? If we can wish to change maths, we can change our own biology!
I’m not sure you can call one of Musk’s business not tech talking points themselves… .
Whittaker, a veteran researcher who spent more than a decade at Google, pointed to a fundamental shift in the threat model where AI agents integrated into core operating systems are being granted expansive access to user data, undermining the assumptions that secure messaging platforms like Signal are built on. To function as advertised, these agents must be able to read messages, access credentials, and interact across applications, collapsing the isolation that E2EE relies on.
This concern is not theoretical. A recent investigation by cybersecurity researcher Jamieson O’Reilly uncovered exposed deployments of Clawdbot, an open-source AI agent framework, that were directly linked to encrypted messaging platforms such as Signal. In one particularly serious case, an operator had configured Signal device-linking credentials inside a publicly accessible control panel. As a result, anyone who discovered the interface could pair a new device to the account and read private messages in plaintext, effectively nullifying Signal’s encryption.
I suppose her attention is naturally focused on encryption, but the result of an untrustworthy operating system is not specific to it: Security in general becomes impossible.
Her business is secure communication and communication isn’t secure (and can’t be secured) if you have someone reading everything over your shoulder.
I’m curious: is there any operating system where a program can somehow inherently trust it via some form of verification?
if you operating system is compromised, you cant make it secure no matter what. Just like if thief has keys to your home, no amount of security will make your home safe. At best you might know if you have been burgled.
So its either using non-compromised operating systems or just submitting to the fact that you have no safety.
The headline sounds all spy tech: “Advances in AI break your best encryption!”
But then the article reminds us we are in the stupidest of all possible timelines:
“Embedding AI into the operating system is such a monumentally idiotic thing to do, that no amount of other security controls can save us.”
Signal phone OS when?
This might be what your looking for, next phone wipe I’m putting this on:
Just don’t. The only thing I’ve missed is a debit/ credit tap wallet and an app that won’t process my credit card purchase for in account credits. I haven’t looked too hard for a techy solution to that one.
Edit I meant to type “just do it” but…typo
Did you mean “just do it” and autocorrect got you? Based on the rest of the text, that is what I figure.
Lol yes. Just do it. I’d like to blame the early hour for my typos but they are a chronic thing.
I’m on a 9 after leaving an iPhone 15pro. IOS 26 drove me away. I spent ten years on iOS. Few habits to break, quirks that are different.
they are a chronic thing
I assumed so, given your username 🤣
I myself am rocking a 7. Put GOS on over the summer. Don’t look back at all!
Just use curve. Also, why do you tell others to not use it if only one thing is not working for you?
his username.
Don’t spend too much time on it. It’s based on Android and Google is fucking up their access.
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Is that because code will be so fucking unintentionally obfuscated that even admins will never be able to recover secrets?
No. It’s because in order to AI agents to work they need access to the content being transmitted on each end of the communication.
