eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoCisco gives 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code in 24 months — president plucks former startup founder, telling him to 'go nuts'.www.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square83linkfedilinkarrow-up1438arrow-down15
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minus-squarecruseo@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up75arrow-down1·4 days agoHoly shit, this really seems like something that you shouldn’t announce publicly
minus-squareReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 days agoTime to disable firmware updates.
minus-squarecruseo@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoOh, the halcyon days when you could confidently check “automatic updates“ and not have to worry about anything. It was such a privilege when that finally became an option, and we should’ve known that they would abuse it as soon as they could.
minus-squareLifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44·4 days agoSo your telling me someone only has to pay off 1 27 year old to ensure they have a backdoor into most enterprise networks?
minus-squarehistoricaldocuments@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoNo. They have already told off a 27 year old to ensure that the backdoor(s) they put there on purpose are still there when he gets done. It’s been worse than you thought for years. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cisco-backdoor-hardcoded-accounts-software,37480.html
minus-squarebarnacles@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 days agoLLMs will never take the job of the $5 wrench! Hit him with it til the back door is done.
Holy shit, this really seems like something that you shouldn’t announce publicly
Time to disable firmware updates.
Oh, the halcyon days when you could confidently check “automatic updates“ and not have to worry about anything.
It was such a privilege when that finally became an option, and we should’ve known that they would abuse it as soon as they could.
So your telling me someone only has to pay off 1 27 year old to ensure they have a backdoor into most enterprise networks?
No. They have already told off a 27 year old to ensure that the backdoor(s) they put there on purpose are still there when he gets done. It’s been worse than you thought for years.
LLMs will never take the job of the $5 wrench! Hit him with it til the back door is done.