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@prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · Joined ⁨Jun⁩ ⁨2024⁩

Replying to an earlier post

Haha no. It would probably rat you out for even suggesting it

Suddenly the “agents” behind the scenes of your local PD are aware that it’s something you’ve ever even thought about. And then you’re in an ICE concentration camp. Oops.

This is the thought police that we were warned about. Yet seems like a good portion of people missed that all those stories were meant to be cautionary tales.

Replying to @⁨stretch2m@infosec.pub⁩

So behind the scenes we have billions of the “agents” communicating with each other… On behalf of whom, again?

So the corporation that owns all of these “agents” will have complete control over “winners and losers” at every single level of existence.

They will control who (age, gender, race, finance, literally anything) gets to see a doctor because they will be controlling the agents of the people seeking appointments, as well as those of the doctors scheduling appointments. Just as one quick example I thought of.

Limited resources? No sweat, the “agents” know you’re white so you can at least have some relief knowing that you’ll be ahead of the undesirables when it comes to who gets what they need.

Country X decides they want to try to reign in Meta’s now complete control? Well looks like all of the “agents” for the companies responsible for food and water delivery logistics fucked up in Country X. What a sad coincidence.

And the “saddest” part is that there’s just nobody to blame. After all, it wasn’t done by a person, and you can’t send an LLM to prison.

Oh well.

Replying to @⁨fubarx@lemmy.world⁩

definitely industrial-scale automation systems. Mostly PLCs, but also SCADA for monitoring. Lots of 20-30 year-old tech. Those networks have no reason to be connected to the internet.

You’re talking a massive nation with more systems like this than you could ever imagine. Probably more than all of Europe combined.

They are in every state of repair and disrepair that you could imagine, and many have been receiving government funding for at least at decade now (def more, but I can only speak to the last ten years or so) to replace these systems, including SCADA and PLCs.

So you have a patchwork of countless systems, in every level of tech modernity that you can imagine.

The newer systems usually have an internal network of sorts, and they might have a portal for someone outside the network to log in to remotely monitor.

The problem seems to be that these idiots kept the default credentials, etc.

But to answer you’re question, they’re not all 20-30 years old, and network connectivity (without being open to the outside internet, obviously), is a very useful feature when replacing those old systems with newer ones.

That’s why.