The 1st 2 were great but I didnt like the 3rd one. Its like the author was in a hurry to finish the book and just started killing characters to make his wordcount.
The 1st 2 are independent, I recommened people stop after 2nd book
I've been reminded of this because of the recent discussion about the use of "AI" in mathematics. The protagonist complains about having to acquire knowledge in dribs and drabs, learning slowly and painfully, while everyone else gets the knowledge effectively "for free".
The Wikipedia article also says:
"The novella inspired a research paper investigating whether people would choose to take a magic learning pill to gain knowledge without 'manual' learning, finding that 57 of 58 participants would replace at least some of their learning experiences with a magic pill."
> "I've reset this more than once and the last time I made a careful note of when I did it and to my surprise I found it re-enabled when I checked just now."
"We've made some updates to improve the security and privacy experience" => "We've changed some of the options available and reset everyone to defaults"
In all fairness this is someone saying something. Misremembering happens. Unless we have something with a bit more evidence, the simpler explanation suffices.
In more accurate assessment rather than assuming no maliciousness nor incompetence, remembering also happens. Unless we fail as a society, the simpler explanation that "OpenAI is training on all data it can and resetting config toggles because it uses the same cohort of engineers that came from Meta and other FANGAMAAMMAM clones" suffices.
>"reset this more than once ... to my surprise I found it re-enabled"
At least when my computer's bluetooth exhibits this behavior (e.g: if you don't have a keyboard&mouse plugged in at boot, bluetooth might auto-enable), I can go inside the hardware and physically disconnect the antenna.
What am I supposed to do in software (perhaps hardcode config.file)? in cloud software services (??)?
Can you point at some papers or articles that talk about attacks specifically on RSA? I've done a search and have a few references, but I'd be interested to know if you have any particular examples in mind.
I know that factoring (which attacks RSA) is sub-exponential, and I know that implementations of RSA (bad choices of primes, timing attacks, etc) can have weaknesses ... I'm just interested as to whether you have something else in mind.
That's referring to attacking the factoring problem, which is one method of attacking RSA, and as I said is known to be faster than exponential, but it felt like the comment to which I was replying was talking about something other than just faster factoring.
I know there are other attacks on RSA, I was interested to know if the poster to whom I was replying knew of any others (other than factoring, which is kinda obvious). After all, I said:
> I know that factoring (which attacks RSA) is sub-exponential, ...
In practice it was confined to specific TPM modules, but in principle it shows how one flaw in the RNG can jeopardize the whole system.
I also remember seeing a similar vuln in certificates where an attacker _generated_ millions of certs and was able to somehow get the private cert by trying every possible seed for the RNG. (Like seeding every second from 2003-2011 for example, then generating a cert with it). I know I'm getting major parts of this wrong but it conveys the general idea.
Return of Coppersmith Attack is, as the name suggests, a really old attack whose fix has been known for a decades but was missed in certain newer implementations. It does indeed underscore how RSA is tricky and you shouldn't do it yourself. Everything has to go right for it to be secure, unlike something like AES which doesn't have such subtle failure modes.
Although they are rarely read in monospace, I write all my emails in monospace, and frequently "choose my words carefully" to have the text left and right justified.
Every now and again someone notices.
I invite you to have a look at my profile ... I cheated once.
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* The Quantum Thief
* The Fractal Prince
* The Causal Angel
Actually, most of the story is on his WikiPedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_Rajaniemi
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