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lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

That’s because it turns out there are tons of vulnerabilities out there introduced by very lazy and/or dumb code.

It isn’t that AI has lowered the bar for hacking, it’s that it’s showing us just how much bad code is out there.

Or, to put it another way, it will end up raising the bar for security everywhere.

Unfortunately we have a lot of legacy crap to clean first.

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HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You’re doing mental gymnastics to argue with me. Let’s try what I said worded differently in a way that hopefully helps you realize we agree:

It is now easier to hack.

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- lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Ah I agree it’s easier to hack. What I don’t agree with is the notion that it enables a class of people that couldn’t hack before. It’s easier to hack, yes, but for the same people who were hacking before.
  
  Ignorant people trying to use ready-made tools for hacking isn’t a new thing, it goes back a while, there’s even a term for it (script kiddies).
  
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  - HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    anyone who formerly had no chance due to being a “script kiddie” can now just prompt an AI* to eventually find a vulnerability
    
    - me, in a comment you already replied to
    
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    lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yes, and that’s what I disagree with. Neither AI nor scripts will make a script kiddie into an actual hacker.
    
    “AI makes hacking easy” is like saying “building houses is now easy because we have cranes”. Sure, but if you jump into a crane without knowing what you’re doing it’s not magically going to make a house appear.
    
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  - curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    it goes back a while
    
    It goes back at least to my teen years, which is…. not remotely recent.
    
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