War makes all logistics a target. How long would you continue fighting if you could not feed your children, let alone your army.
Remote bricking of Ukrainian tractors raises agriculture security concerns
Modern agriculture depends on internet-connected machinery that is centrally controlled and collects and analyzes massive amounts of data, making it an inviting target for threat actors.
Against the backdrop of horrific reports from Russia's Ukraine invasion, an encouraging story emerged earlier this month when unidentified Ukrainians remotely disabled tractors worth $5 million that Russian soldiers in the occupied city of Melitopol stole from Agrotek-Invest, an authorized John Deere dealer. The soldiers stole 27 pieces of farm machinery and shipped them primarily to Chechnya, 700 miles away, only to discover they had been rendered inoperable due to a "kill switch."
The dealership tracked the machinery using the tractors' embedded GPS technology. Although the equipment was reportedly languishing at a farm near Grozny on May 1, one source said the Russians had found consultants who would try to bypass the digital protection that bricked the machines.
Some observers fear that malicious actors could exploit the same technology Deere and other manufacturers use to update and monitor farm equipment. If successfully accomplished on a large-enough scale, a cyberattack could disrupt significant portions of what has become critical agricultural infrastructure.
Imagine a school district that “monitored” their students (and faculty, parents, and others?) perhaps once a week. Did they have a flawless AI algorithm? What did they promise parents this system would do?
REVEALED: Uvalde school district was part of AI program that rooted out potential mass killers and monitored social media for threats and potential shooters
Texas school officials had been monitoring students' social media prior to the deadly shooting in Uvalde Tuesday, it has been revealed - but still failed to pick up on concerning posts from the teenage gunman in the days leading up to the tragedy.
… Now, Uvalde School officials say they had been monitoring its students' social media pages using an advanced AI-based service called Social Sentinel, designed to recognize signals of potential harm found in digital conversations.
The district revealed Monday it had been using the platform 'to monitor all social media with a connection to Uvalde as a measure to identify any possible threats that might be made against students and or staff within the school district.'
… However, in this particular instance, the technology fell short - failing to spot Ramos' objectively concerning posts and notify district officials.
It is not immediately clear why the technology failed to flag Ramos' posts. DailyMail.com reached out to Social Sentinel and Uvalde district staffers for comment on the software's apparent failure Wednesday morning, but did not immediately hear back.
If consent is what you want, consent is what we’ll give you. (Will they copy images from the ‘consent’ database to the bigger database?)
Clearview AI Launches Clearview Consent; Company’s First Consent Based Product for Commercial Uses
For the first time, Clearview AI’s industry leading FRT algorithm will be available for a multitude of identity verification purposes across the commercial marketplace. Product will be offered separate and apart from Clearview AI’s database of facial images
… Clearview Consent will offer Clearview AI’s state-of-the-art, world renowned, highly accurate and bias-free facial recognition technology (FRT) to companies for use in consent-based enterprise workflows. It will be sold as a licensed product, separate and apart from the company’s database of 20+ billion facial images, the largest such database in the world. This means private companies will be able to use Clearview AI’s industry leading FRT platform, powered by the most accurate and bias-free algorithm in the U.S. and Western World.
(Related) Nothing if not opportunistic.
https://gizmodo.com/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-privacy-1848975528
Clearview AI Says It's Bringing Facial Recognition to Schools
The company revealed it's working with a U.S. company selling visitor management systems to schools within hours of a horrific school shooting.
… In a press release Wednesday, the company outlined a path toward an apparent one-to-one face match verification method that could be used in schools, banks, and other private firms as part of its new “Clearview Consent” product. Clearview says it seeks to sell its facial recognition tool to enterprise companies decoupled from its massive database of faces. Theoretically, that means private companies could use Clearview’s system as a 1:1 identity verification tool before creating an online account, check-in a passenger at an airport, or protecting against financial fraud.
… Clearview’s pivot towards a database-free version of its tech comes partly out of necessity. The walls have started to close in around the country in recent months, with new restrictions and government opposition threatening to upend their core product offerings.
Today the intelligence services, tomorrow the world...
Swiss Government Proposes Backdoor in Its Banking Secrecy Laws for Spy Agency; Pressure Applied by UN Over Human Rights Concerns
The private Swiss bank account has been one of the country’s distinguishing features for nearly 100 years. But these banking secrecy laws began to see significant erosion in 2018, and are facing another substantial blow as the country’s government is proposing to allow its spy agency to monitor financial transactions.
This comes amidst debate about doing away with the country’s famous banking secrecy laws entirely, as the United Nations applies pressure in the wake of the Credit Suisse scandal.
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