Category: IO Impotency

Palantir Technologies: Maybe Stealth Is Better for Specialized Services Companies?

I, like many other Palantir watchers, read “Leaked S-1 Screenshots Show Palantir Losing $579M in 2019.” My hunch is that this going public thing is not going to be the cake walk some envision. Palantir Technologies is a specialized services company. In my lingo, that means the firm’s principal technology was developed for and influenced directly by the needs of intelligence, law enforcement, and similar enforcement . .

Phi Beta Iota: The world still does not have the CATALYST sense-making toolkit envisioned by top CIA analysts in 1984.  Why is that, we wonder?

1989 Webb (US) CATALYST: Computer-Aided Tools for the Analysis of Science & Technology

Deepfakes and Other AI Threats

As AI technology matures it has greater and greater potential to facilitate bad actors. Now, researchers at the University College London have concluded that falsified audio and video content poses the greatest danger. The university announces its results on its news page in, “‘Deepfakes’ Ranked as Most Serious AI Crime Threat.” The post relates:  Read full post.

Data Loss: An Interesting Number

“Over 27 Billion Records Exposed in the First Half of 2020” contains some interesting assertions. One which caught my attention was:

Although reports of data breaches are down 52 percent in the first half of this year, the number of records exposed over the same period has soared to 27 billion.  Read full post.

The Old and Not-So-Bold Dieblold?

Robbing ATMs with specialized hardware is not new. What is new is using the manufacturer’s own software to facilitate the attacks. Ars Technica reports, “Crooks Have Acquired Proprietary Diebold Software to ‘Jackpot’ ATMs.” Say, doesn’t Diebold also make voting machines? Perhaps there are some things that should not be automated.

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