They had fun writing this article:

allow an attacker to get a corporate email account with which to conduct a little filet-o-phishing

with no server-side checking, allowing a Hamburglar to order food for free

eventually got through to a security McEngineer who said that they were "too busy" to fix the flaw

Coincidentally, I saw on linkedin last night they were hiring a Security Operations manager. They should get an Appsec person instead to fix those issues.

I am not mad at the vibe coders, I got cheese burgers!

Now, a new car would be great... Tell the CEO how great AI is and how much money they are going to save please.

That's a whole lot of incompetence from McD

You can pretty well guarantee there are plenty of security flaws left. If anyone wants free food, I'm sure it's still easy to do

The Hollywood hacking depictions are equivalent to seeing syringes being used on film. To the uninitiated it looks "real", the reality is somewhat different.

Source: I've been an ICT professional for 40+ years and have had hundreds of (medical) needles poked in me over much of my life.

Sorry to be THAT guy, but... Well, Technically™, this idea has been analysed for, I dare say, centuries at this point.

Edit: and in many (not all, but very, very many) scenarios, it ends up being a profoundly shitty idea.

Not against actual medical use, but unless absolutely needed, it should be a "fuck no." Imho.

Edit 2/unprompted musings: I think we, as a species, are simply too immature for such technologies. We're still at the "age" where the first thing we'll do with it would be to figure out how to best weaponise it.

Because there are ways in which this might actually help if we place some heavy-duty limits and restrictions on the tech itself - I'm thinking about how much it might facilitate comprehension in a scenario where one could transmit the unmolested concept directly, instead of butchering it through language first. But that's still such a hhhhyooooj responsibility, that I simply don't think we could handle as we are now collectively.

Thoughtcrime issues? You have thoughts about harming someone, you get punished for it even if you don't take action?

I suppose the upshot is it could be used to detect and diagnose mental illnesses?

Furthermore, going into the future, it could ostensibly be used to control parts of the body that are damaged or otherwise not working, or emulate their function. For example, someone with damaged vocal cords could use it to speak through connected speakers. Someone who is paralysed could use it to walk with a mechanical exoskeleton.

The problem with something like that is, it would have to be privacy focused. Samsung, one of the most popular smartphone makers, updated their Health app a year or two ago to where you had to agree to allow them to sell or give away your medical information if you want to continue to use Samsung Health. And that's a Korean company. Apple Health is still private, but Apple is an American company, so the question is begged, "but for how long?".

So, the question is, are the powers that be/fascists in charge going to use it to weed out LGBTQ+ and put them in concentration camps, or what?

Making this a privacy issue is about a decade PR two early.

These devices require a surgical implant and extensive training. There's no "thoughtcrime" potential here. This of for giving paraplegic people, victims of neurological disease, and potentially non-verbal autistic people the ability to speak.

The need to use a "public thought password" is because the AI training and system is not good enough yet to recognize the difference between internal monologue and thoughts directed for others. Likely because people involved in the research have been rendered mute for AI long they don't know the difference anymore either.

Sure, it means both come from the same source and both can be translated. But in some SciFi future world where the cops plonk a thought helmet on you, just do what I do all the time anyway, and think "boobs boobs boobs..." over and over.

I firmly believe, given enough time and technology, and barring we don't destroy our own selves like dumb asses of the highest order that mankind is.....I think we can achieve just about anything we can possibly think of. Which is a beautiful picture if we weren't so short sighted.

I have a brain injury from impact. Tho I am not a paraplegic or in a wheelchair, I have suffered some mental/neural maladies. I am pretty mobile, I read a ton of content off the internet. So, I function with some defficiencies. Imagine for those far worse off than I, like a paraplegic with significant brain/spinal damage. I always think 'I wonder if they have any kind of inner monologue?'

In a general sense, we loose very few of our memories over our lifetime. Yes there are caveats but, a majority still exist, our retrieval system lags. I realize it's a lot more complicated than this simplistic explaination. If we could somehow tap into that lost archived data bank, that would open up a lot litany of issues. Solving crime comes to mind.

In June, 12 activists on board the sailboat Madleen were intercepted by Israeli forces 185km west of Gaza. Its passengers, who included Thunberg, were detained and eventually expelled.

Ah, I had only heard about the detention, that makes more sense.

Love the new do. She looks good in bangs.

Good luck to them in achieving their goals.

I like how tenacious they are, but I feel like announcing where you are at all times either defeats their stated purpose, or they're lying about the purpose. You aren't going to get aid in there as long as Israel knows your every move. If you actually want to help them with food and stuff, you sneak it in.

This serves a different purpose, showing the world how awful Israel is for attacking civilian boats loaded with food for a starving population. My only real problem with that is that we all know this. Everyone who gives half a shit about what is happening, has known for at least a year at this point. Spreading awareness about it at this point comes off more as virtuesignalling than actually trying to help.