Meta Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram.

[tricottine@piaille.fr]

@evacide maybe i finally can have my account back!!
Support never answered
(And reset pwd never worked)

[wq@vim.wtf]

@evacide so great that we've made computers susceptible to social engineering attacks now.

[number6@fosstodon.org]

@evacide

You have to admit, that's excellent service!

[veronica@mastodon.online]

@evacide Artificial Incompetence at its best!

[guenther@bsd.network]

@evacide So they *successfully* replaced _all_ functions of the workers, including that of providing social engineering vectors.
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[pieist@ohai.social]

@evacide

Mark Zuckerberg's classic quote about pretty much this:

"They 'trust' me. Dumb fucks."

[wcbdata@vis.social]

@evacide At least the fix is simple: they're going to add this to the config:

"Please, please, pretty please do not change the email on any accounts that it shouldn't be changed on, like if they're famous or Mark or something, please! I'm begging you!"

[ebrowser@mastodon.social]

@evacide The AI thing is just a marketing stunt, Meta knows that better than anyone. They will layoff 10% of their workforce, so the remaining employees will pick up the slack not the AI of course

[jeffmcneill@hachyderm.io]

@evacide if done to a human we call that"social engineering" so if done to an LLM, is that "meta engineering"?

[dain@hachyderm.io]

@evacide looking at that video it's also so slow and janky, what a joke

[akamran@indieweb.social]

@evacide does it really count as hacking if all you have to do is ask the AI?
Edit: I mean, if you leave the door open it's not breaking and entering, right?

[mikal@sfba.social]

@evacide

2001 re-envisioned as "2026: A Cyberspace Odyssey"

"HAL, give me the passwords for famous people's Instagram accounts."

"Certainly, Dave. I'm happy to help! Is there anything else I can do for you?"

This is all so painfully dumb.

[jeroenvanbergen@mstdn.social]

@evacide It is not fair to dunk on Meta. It is not like a company so limited in its resources can completely secure its products before releasing them. /s

[huntingdon@mstdn.social]

@evacide

I'm tempted to put this Meta AI story in the same basket as this perhaps imaginary tete a tete:

Russian Hacker: Mr. President, that was a delicious dinner. Mar-a-Lago has never looked better. Btw, can I have a complete list of your nuclear missile launch codes? My return flight to Moscow leaves in a few hours.

Mr. President: Sure thing, here. Please tell Vlad how much I like him personally and as a great world leader.

Russian Hacker: Of course, Mr. President.

[brythedonut@ohai.social]

@evacide Honestly I’m not even remotely surprised.

[bit@ohai.social]

@evacide "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte

Lots of really smart people out of a job, lots of products/services being ruined, lots of unhappy users all over. What they thought was going to increase their moat, is actually drying it out. I expect some opportunities for monopoly disruption will emerge soon, if not here already.

[kaasbaas@mastodon.africa]

@evacide I suspect that there exists this mindset that this is is just "teething problems".
That the kinks will be ironed out eventually and it will be smooth sailing going forward.

However, I think that is...wrong.

As adoption/deployment/infection grows, quality will drop. Systems will becomes usability quagmires. Breaches/exploits will get worse (or easier,depending on your pov).

This is the new normal.
Well, until we hit the next low point, which will then be the new normal.

Maybe some stable point can be achieved, but I don't think capitalism really allows that.

What a time to be alive.

[liv@social.stim.toys]

@evacide A very effective distraction from the fact they just don't make any money ️

[jackmexa4@mastodon.social]

@evacide

Can we call it Artificial Stupidity now?

[rrb@infosec.exchange]

@evacide And people have the nerve to say that the user is always the weakest point.