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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by timschmidt on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:21PM (#50370956)
The user may be capable of undervolting the logic, issuing directed EM attacks, accessing JTAG, etc. Good luck.
Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by solyin on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @04:48PM (#50372025)
The user doesn't have to be someone that grew up on Defcon talks and CTFs anymore though. Any Joe/Jane off the street can ask an LLM what is a JTAG or what is a 90 nop and keep asking until they're satisfied. So we have to assume the user is capable of all of those things.
Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by wizzwizz4 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @02:46PM (#50383521)
We used to have these things called "books" that you could ask. (And if you didn't know which book to consult, we had these people called "librarians".) I don't think it's a much greater threat surface than before: if anything, it might be smaller, because the internet is harder to search.
Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by timschmidt on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:50PM (#50387553)
As someone who grew up with libraries, card catalogs, microfiche, and an encyclopedia, I can confidently say that talking to and working with an LLM is much faster, much easier, and much more informative than all of the above combined.