You watch too much tv. All you need is to degrade the quality of the recorded video on any camera exposed to the public internet enough for ai to have divergent results due to how ambiguous the images captured are. There are thousands of hobby projects that let you browse actual feeds from such cameras and usually that means you can get hardware metadata and in most cases change how the video is recorded by patching the driver running on the already publicly accessed cameras. Why make an exaggerated strawman argument while at the same time pretending you know better than everyone else?
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NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 4 weeks agoWhile they’re at it, why not just hack the government to reverse last year’s election, amirite?
I know most of us loved Mr Robot and watching dinozzo and abby double team a keyboard and Wolverine getting a blowy and all that fun stuff, but that really isn’t how things work.
These aren’t off the shelf pre-trained models. The model is a big part of the company’s product and, increasingly, the cost of training is being partially offloaded to customers under the guise of “tune the model to your data”.
And IF we have a Bones situation where someone has inscribed a virus onto human remains to destroy a one of a kind machine or whatever: That is what version control is for. “Hmm. The May 2025 model isn’t working. Okay, switch back to April”
formulaBonk@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This article says it is local cameras installed by local police that are being used for ice by the local police department.
Claiming anonymous could do anything about it by poisoning AI models is absurd. Then you call out the skeptic for watching too much TV?
Anonymous hasn’t ever done anything significant in 10 years They dos’ed Israel last year. Did it do anything? Was one less Palestinian killed?
formulaBonk@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Ahh yes the local police! An infamous bastion of web security, IT infrastructure, and thinking long term. Who could ever crack the default passwords on their IT setup? How could we ever hope to social engineer these above average intelligence elite local cops into plugging in a usb drive to their work computer. This is all definitely impossible, no local police branch has ever been a victim of ransomware so we know for sure it can’t be done and deserves all the cynicism and comparisons to Hollywood movies from the 80s.
Of course we also know that by “anonymous types” I meant that one specific group of people you have in mind who did that one thing 10 years ago and not just socially conscious programmers with basic knowledge of social engineering and web infrastructure. That would be a ridiculous thing to mean of course.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s your claim that Anonymous would do anything when they won’t and do it by AI poisoning that’s absurd.
If your initial claim was, “It would be a shame if someone hacked their local police.” it wouldn’t have sounded like you just watched Mr. Robot.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Which is not an “ai poison pill”
formulaBonk@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
That’s fair, you probably won’t brick their ai model but it can make it useless for that particular camera output.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Which… is basically worthless because of just how many cameras there are out there.
A “fun” exercise a couple buddies and I did a few years (… decade?) back was to just use an afternoon of plugging python packages together and scraping county traffic cam feeds to track someone, with their consent, over a few days. And it was ridiculously easy to get their schedule down basically day one and even get a LOT of data on who they were seeing or where they went after parking just based on when and where the car “disappeared”.
And that is just publicly available traffic cameras. Not the giant mess of speed and red light cameras and all the other crap we have in a modern surveillance state.
So even if people are climbing traffic poles and midlining over to the actual boxes to smash them? Those are even less of an issue than normal outages from rain on a windy day.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Fucking Bones throwback, man! Good one.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Bingo. Just make sure you are masked up and know WHERE you are masking up.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Spray-pam be just as good?
NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Spray paint. Krylon makes “stained glass” paints. Something dark and thick like violet would be pretty effective.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I don’t wanna damage; just render valueless until a tech comes out again.