Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yep. Have no reason to trust it does what it says it does.

  and even if it does what it says it does, no reason to believe that it wont default to on with the next update.

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  • Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m just gonna say this. The former head of CIA had his laptop camera taped over. If he doesn’t trust the digital toggle. Neither should you.

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    • 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Did he remove his microphone? That’s the first thing I do with every new computer, physically remove the microphone. Microphones pick up much more data than cameras.

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      • Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I don’t know. Difficult to see on the outside if he removed an internal microphone or not.

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      • Tiger_Man_@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        My microphone cant listen to me if pipewire makes it unusable

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Hackers have already proven that your webcam can be activated and monitored without the indicator LED even turning on.

      If hackers are capable of it, you know the CIA have been doing it for even longer.

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• Tiger_Man_@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  sudo rm -rf /*:

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  • Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re not deleting the data. Just the adress to the data.

    Still not a kill switch.

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• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Software controls are sufficient and hardware controls are expensive. Robust software protections are just as safe as hardware based lockouts.” - people who have never heard of Therac-25

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