Pretty interesting, thanks for your work and talk.
On topic, I also think we won’t see much of a consequence from the new classification.
"No timeline was given on when authorities will make a final decision in the case."
Typical EU commission powerbottom move.Those benchwarmers will not do a damn thing before the next round of elections.
All politicians and world leaders decided to stay on a platform that enables generating child pornography. Why would they leave TikTok? They want people to be addicted to theirs and their parties content on there across all political camps.
All of this OpenClaw / Moltbot bullshit is annoying.
But it’s comments like yours that are slowly giving me a stroke.
Just putting things on a cloud server that would not destroy your life if leaked, that is not how IT security works.
We designed security best practices for IT software for decades, this vibe coded wet dream of any North Korean hacker is throwing all of it over board.
It’s malware. Do not install malware.
The other part of the equation is people like you not understanding what running insecure software that allows for unnoticed access to your cloud hosted machine really means.
Once I have access to your cloud hosted Ubuntu server I have access to where, when and how you connect to that server.
I can then not just use your server to hide my own criminal activities and not give a shit if you go to jail for it because I used your server as a staging point for cybercrime activities and bounce off some other idiots Openclaw servers, I also have your home ip address.
Good luck explaining the FBI that a lobster was responsible for running a ransomware campaign against a company that deals with critical infrastructure and not you.
I pity those poor agents already because that will be part of their exhausting paperwork in the near future. AI did it sir, I swear. Doesn’t matter son, you better get your anus stretched and prepare for a ten year stay in a prison with real criminals that will greet you excitedly with a "fresh meat is on the menu boys".
From your home IP I can break into your router, or I don’t even need to because manipulating whatever you download from that server to your personal devices is likely enough to get access to the machine you connect from and probably your phone.
Suddenly your 2FA is no longer safe because I have access to both devices you use to authenticate everything from bank transfers to logins. And because I have access to your home network I can figure out from network activity alone when you sleep. I can destroy your whole life within the 4 to 8 hours you’re unconscious.
Once I’m in your router or personal pc I can then also scan for devices on your home network and put a persistent backdoor on one of the countless Chinese home appliances people use these days. Unless you burn your house down, you will never be able to get me out of it.
Once I have permanent access to your network I can watch you fap to heterotransgayporn over your camera and then blackmail you. I clone your voice, i take enough pictures or get them from your NAS to clone your face and steal your identity.
Maybe I open an account somewhere with videos of your wife undressing or the private photos on your daughters laptop and once your cloud server is burned, which I find out from the footage of heavily armed agents kicking in your door one morning, which I will also sell on the darknet for the amusement of others, I bleed you dry financially and disappear in the smoke.
You won’t need a lobster anymore to order your sneakers.
You will never eat one again because you’re dead broke.
But you will turn the same color as one once you find out that I exposed everyone you love on the internet and made money from it and they will never be able to delete it from the internet again.
Congratulations, only putting things there within lobster reach that would not destroy you if leaked, basically killed your whole family.
I need to put it this drastically because that is how cybercriminals will put you and your family at risk irl without blinking an eye.
Companies lose millions every week because one of their senior employees fell victim to phishing attacks and then got blackmailed with compromising material of themselves. And those people all have the same in common. They think they are much smarter than they really are.
You thinking to "only put things there within lobsters reach that would not destroy you if leaked" puts you in the same group as any other idiot that have been hacked and their life’s ruined in the past.
Are there really examples of this? Being criminally liable after someone hacks your computer just because you suck at security? Framing you is another story but that seems unnecessary when their in another country anyways.
In Hamilton v. ACCU-TEK, 62 F. Supp. 2d 802 (E.D.N.Y. 1999), the court found that a general duty to avoid negligence is assumed.
The court in McCall v. Wilder, 913 S.W.3d 150, generally detailed these elements of negligence.
In Kubert v. Best, the New Jersey Appellate Division held that “the
sender of a text message can potentially be liable if an accident is caused by texting, but only if the sender knew or had special reason to know that the recipient would view the text while driving and thus be distracted."
Referring to what he terms “enabling torts,” Professor Rabin identifies a number of cases in which courts have held defendants liable even when unconnected third parties have actively caused harm to plaintiffs.
More modern recognition is that criminal acts are sometimes foreseeable, and where specific circumstances reflect that foreseeability, it is not justifiable to cut off liability of the party who enabled the tortfeaso.
It is not that compromised system owners are directly causing injury to the targets, but rather that they are furnishing the attacker with the tools
necessary to launch the attack.
So in case of Openclaw, there are multiple public articles like this one warning of the security implications using the software.
If you rent and run a server facing the open Internet and voluntarily install Openclaw, I think it’s fair to say that you are neglecting your duty to avoid negligence, and on top you’re likely contractually instructed to keep your own server safe in the user agreement with the hosting companies, otherwise you need to go with a managed product.
And you are obviously able to install and use a complex software like Openclaw to do things on your behalf. Therefore being negligent in securing the server opens up liability for whatever you or someone that hacks your server does.
For example, if you live in a neighborhood where maybe one car gets stolen a year and you leave your car unlocked with the key in the ignition to fetch something from your house, if someone steals your car and does a drive-by shooting with it you are most likely not liable.
If you’re a police officer and do the same thing in a crime ridden neighborhood and provide criminals with a tool to do crime, just to stop them afterwards or push your crime solving rate, you’re definitely liable for the death of someone they shoot out of that car.
It’s complicated, but yes, if you’re technically savvy and also read the fine print in your server rent agreement that tells you you need to take appropriate security measures so your server doesn’t harm others on the internet, I don’t see how a judge would let you off the hook. Similar common sense laws exist in most parts of the world.
His name is Jon and he seems to be a compassionate American citizen that cares for other people even if they are not having the same passport or skin color. Show some damn respect for the man, he is not a thing and has a name.
In return for a reasonable and simple plea, Jon got targeted by the government that is clearly overreaching in this case.
Everything Jon did was all protected under the First Amendment.
If you do this to an American citizen making use of his rights, you are no better than the guys the D-Boys blew up, shot, stabbed, drowned or ran over with an old Toyota every Friday in Iraq who gathered intel on Iraqi citizens in the shadows and then later were directly responsible for the capture and torture of them and their families, simply because they stood up against the terrorists that were treating their friends and neighbors like dogs.
I think the biggest problem is, everyone basically living on their own these days instead of treating neighbors like a collective of individuals that can absolutely have life changing consequences for you, if you either get along with them very well or if you annoy each other.
We humans are not build to spend our lives in front of small or big screens. It makes people angry, sad, lonely and weird and sometimes they turn the tv up just so they can have someone come by and make them feel like someone recognizes they are existing, even if it’s just to complain that they are too loud.
If people like you, they will be more willing to go out of their way to not annoy you. It’s basic psychology.
In Aghanistan I could take my helmet and body armor off, sit down next to a teenager on a piece of rubble and share my chocolate bar with them and a good laugh, watching a few guys burn an American flag in sight without being afraid I will get shot or killed.
I fixed peoples kitchen sinks and made sure they could wash their babies in water that would not make them sick, I vaccinated their children from my bonus payments, I played soccer with their kids and treated them like human beings and in return they protected me from any harm while I was in their neighborhood.
If people in a war zone can be decent human beings to each other, why can’t we do the same in our, what we think is a more civilized, superior, society?
There is a ton of stuff you can do to get along with your neighbors that neither costs you extra time or money.
Say good day and good night with a genuine smile if you meet them. Help the elderly out carrying groceries if you’re already on your way up or down.
You have no idea how often people watch through their door spy what is happening in their house, they will see it and respect you for it, even if you don’t see them.
I am a stress baker, so instead of making cookies for my own, I make a whole rack and ask my direct neighbors in the evening if they could take some off my hands so I don’t get a sugar shock. What’s better than cookies after a shit day at work?
If the parcel dude asks me if I can take a package for someone while getting my own, sure thing. If you pick it up same day I will gladly do it again, if you don’t respect my time you can drive to the post office next time. Easy as that.
Need some sugar, eggs or some papers for your joint because your stoned ass is too lazy and you forgot to buy new ones every few months, sure thing enjoy your weed brownies or smoke dude.
I can easily just kill any neighbor that annoys me. But instead I choose to find out why they do stupid stuff. And then I fix it without much noise or help them to recognize themselves there is a solution to their problem.
It might be my military mindset but I swore an oath to serve the people and protect them and that doesn’t end with being a civilian now. I am not perfect and get angry and yell at people on the internet just like any other idiot on here, but I see my neighbors more often than I see my parents and I want to live in peace, and peace is something that requires cooperation.
Dont go to war with your neighbors, try to figure out why they do stuff and offer a solution for their problem if they can’t see it themselves for whatever reason. You’ll be a lot happier and healthier if you get along with the people living in the same house. Or you could fuck with their tv and eventually get shot in the face. It’s a choice.
Most reasonable take in the entire thread. Thanks for writing.
> peace is something that requires cooperation.
Funny that many people consider peace as simply being left alone, forgetting that we are fundamentally social animals and there are many very real benefits of being part of a (functioning) society.
His parents are respected law professors at Stanford, they have access to lawyers that have the ear of the president and his inner circle.
Basically every white collar criminal is giving up their ass to get pardoned right now after he did so with Ulbricht.
On top of that, US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who oversaw the FTX founder’s trial and sentenced him to decades behind bars, also presided over the defamation and sexual assault lawsuits brought against Mr Trump by New York writer E. Jean Carroll.
I think there is a good chance he might pardon him after he and his parents sell their souls to the orange devil just to fuck with judge Kaplan.
Two Stanford law professors and their contacts in the bag plus a criminal "genius" expanding his crypto empire full time sounds like a good deal for me for a pardon.
I’ve been looking for this everywhere the past few days but I couldn’t find any official information relating the use of https://signal.org/docs/specifications/pqxdh/ in the signal protocol version that WhatsApp is currently using.
Do you have any information if the protocol version they currently use provides post-quantum forward secrecy and SPQR or are the current e2ee chats vulnerable to harvest now, decrypt later attacks?
1. It’s not 0$ a month if you suggest a 20$ Claude pro subscription at the end that is necessary to run "always-on ai" as you can not run any local models on that instance.
2. So you harden the server but run all of your files through an external provider (anthropic) that you have zero control over and do not even give people a disclaimer about the dangers of doing so?
And on top of that you upload everything unencrypted to Google Drive as backup.
Oh boy.
Just because you can do something it’s not always a good idea to do it Ryan.
Did you come up with this genius tutorial yourself or did you ask Claude to write it?
You can just zip all your files up and send them directly to either the NSA or the kremlin if you talk to your bot on Telegram or WhatsApp like this.
I’m looking forward to read all the shit you write and upload when it ends up on the darknet, because the vibe coding scriptkid gang of 2026 that follows 0$ tutorials installed malware ridden clawdbot skills after following your tutorial.
Educating people is a noble thing, but this is the equivalent of giving an 8-year old a loaded gun and he says bang bang while pointing it at your face.
You need to teach people of proper handling and the dangers of a weapon before you hand it to them. Openclaw or whatever it is called tomorrow is a loaded gun.
Technically, you can also put diesel in a regular gas car. Is that a good idea? Nope.
Don’t try to move the goalposts here.
If those local models with 4b params could do anything useful in the broader range of having a "personal ai assistant" (your words) then why use the 20$ Claude pro subscription and not the local models?
We both know the answer.
You wanted to provide a Tutorial for a 0$ instance "working ai assistant", that could actually do things like "check email, manage files, run scripts". According to your own words.
Now please prove it that you can run a useful ai assistant at 0$ with those local models.
Sooner or later all saudis living abroad will need to go to the embassy and the UK is especially bad at protecting the lives of foreign "dissidents".
I think the other intelligence agencies call it the MI5 special.
Unfortunately insertrandomcrititicaljournalistnamehere flipped and tried to pull a gun inside the Saudi embassy, fortunately our security forces were able to neutralize the terrorist immediately before he could cause any harm, here is the once discharged weapon with his fingerprints, and here the video and audio evidence that we promise is totally not generated by AI.
He totally had an extra finger on each hand to pull the trigger, Bin Salami Pinky promise.
The body? Sorry that has already been brought back to Saudi Arabia on explicit wishes of his family. See we have it written and signed here, don’t mind the tears and blood splatters next to the ink, his parents had an unfortunate event of spontaneous nosebleeding, but we took good care of that.
If this is for people physically working at some place they have access controls and will see if you left the building, when and for how long.
So this is only good to track when your company phone leaves to the toilet. I imagine if they want to get rid of you they just set up a WiFi access point in the toilet and track your poop time. Then tell you to "optimize" your diet so you are more productive or get fired.
I mean it’s Microsoft the king of shitty features.
If this is for catching people working from home, just clone the WiFi and Mac on an OpenWRT 5g mobile router and take it with you and enjoy laughing at your boss while brunching with the whole team on company time.
Sometimes I think people forget that you borrow the company your (life)time and skills for the agreed terms. You’re not some kind of pig that is tracked until you’re fat enough to get butchered.
If your company turns this on, just look for a better workplace immediately that is actually respecting you as a human being and not "human capital" and tell them to get fucked.
I think a lot of people don’t see the bigger picture.
At a WEF panel on the quantum future, Singapore’s cybersecurity minister made a good point, already‑stored data encrypted with non‑quantum‑resistant algorithms is extremely valuable.
She said they need to show people quantum tech can be used for things that actually benefit citizens but we also need to be aware of the dangers.
The NSA probably has a giant trove of non‑quantum‑resistant encrypted data on anyone who used the internet a lot since 9/11. US citizens are being mass‑surveilled.
Its encryption is based on the Signal protocol, but Whatsapp hasn’t fully adopted PQXDH (Post‑Quantum eXtended Diffie‑Hellman) to guard against future quantum attacks. Do you think that’s an accident?
Right now they may only see metadata, who you talk to, but they can harvest and store the encrypted stuff now and decrypt it later once quantum breaks it.
Then someone, or some AI has to read and analyze all that data. With the massive AI facilities being built and extra data like old phone numbers, social accounts, and emails, they can automatically build and categorize profiles on people.
And the worst part, you mostly handed this to them yourself, so it’s effectively verified. If you become an activist for something a future government labels “domestic terrorism,” it’s like signing your own death warrant.
You might shrug and say, “So what if they have data on foreigners?” Remember, they have that data on you and your neighbors too. They already have your dirty secrets. They just can’t read them yet.
Once they can, people lose power.
The right to bear arms only matters if you can organize. Organizing needs secure communications, you can’t overthrow a murderous regime alone.
Microtargeting lets them neutralize organizers before resistance forms by quietly taking out the few who can spark large protests.
History repeats.
Every so often an asshole rises who wants to crush anyone who’s not like them. We used to organize and stop them, kill them or put them on trial. Now the assholes build machines to surveil and manipulate you, splitting people into tiny groups so none can exert collective pressure to hold leaders to account.
Most Americans aren’t in the favored few.
It’s almost funny. People paying $30 a month for an overhyped word generator and the average greedy user fueling the AI bubble are funding the slow collapse of American society.
We live in interesting times. I don’t know what will destroy us first, our own greed, or an AI deciding we’re more useful as matchsticks than consumers of scarce resources.
On topic, I also think we won’t see much of a consequence from the new classification.
"No timeline was given on when authorities will make a final decision in the case."
Typical EU commission powerbottom move.Those benchwarmers will not do a damn thing before the next round of elections.
All politicians and world leaders decided to stay on a platform that enables generating child pornography. Why would they leave TikTok? They want people to be addicted to theirs and their parties content on there across all political camps.
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