Be careful. You need to be certain that you are attacking crooks and not a nation state pretending to be a crook,

https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/21/doj_cyber_offensive_policy/

US to attack cyber criminals first, ask questions later – if it protects victims

The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has revealed new policies that may see it undertake pre-emptive action against cyber threats.

Revealed last week by deputy attorney general Lisa O. Monaco, in a speech at the Munich Cyber Security Conference, the policy will see prosecutors, agents and analysts assess "whether to use disruptive actions against cyber threats, even if they might otherwise tip the cybercriminals off and jeopardize the potential for charges and arrests."

Theft by remote access?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/02/stealing-bicycles-by-swapping-qr-codes.html

Stealing Bicycles by Swapping QR Codes

This is a clever hack against those bike-rental kiosks:

They’re stealing Citi Bikes by switching the QR scan codes on two bicycles near each other at a docking station, then waiting for an unsuspecting cyclist to try to unlock a bike with his or her smartphone app.

The app doesn’t work for the rider but does free up the nearby Citi Bike with the switched code, where a thief is waiting, jumps on the bicycle and rides off.

Presumably they’re using camera, printers, and stickers to swap the codes on the bikes. And presumably the victim is charged for not returning the stolen bicycle.

This story is from last year, but I hadn’t seen it before. There’s a video of one theft at the link.

Perspective.

https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/data-privacy-in-2022-protecting-data-during-the-age-of-hybrid-and-remote/

Data Privacy in 2022: Protecting Data During the Age of Hybrid and Remote

Data privacy best practices for safeguarding information have evolved and changed rapidly over the course of the pandemic. Many can agree that privacy in 2022 is different than privacy in 2019; a recent study reveals that more than half of workers (62%) 22-65 years of age engage in remote work at least occasionally, and globally, 16% of companies are fully remote. A twofold condition: we’ve experienced increased flexibility as well as increased data privacy risk brought on by novel working situations.

(Related)

https://owllabs.com/state-of-remote-work/2021/?utm_campaign=State%20of%20Remote%20Work%202021&utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=native

State of Remote Work 2021

Perspective.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/artificial-intelligence-the-future-is-data-capture-not-machine-learning/

Artificial Intelligence: The future is data capture, not machine learning

Adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has accelerated since the pandemic hit as the whole world moved towards digitization. A study by Oxford University and Yale University indicates that AI will outperform humans in many ways and will automate all human jobs in the next 120 years. By 2024, AI will be better than humans at translation, will write bestselling books by 2049, and will perform surgeries by 2053. Machine learning (ML), the proficiency of a machine to mimic human ability to accumulate knowledge and use it to drive insights, is generally considered the basis of AI.

Although AI might depend on its machine learning abilities, we need to take a step back and realize ML doesn’t happen in vacuum. ML is driven by big data, without which it can’t take place. Effectively, therefore, AI depends completely on the amount of data we can capture and the methods we use to process and manage it. For this reason, we need to pay more attention to data capture, transport, processing, and storage if we want to realize the promise of AI in the future.

… Projections from Statista indicate that by the end of 2025, the world will potentially generate 181 zettabytes of data, an increase of 129% over 2021’s 79 zettabytes.

A lack of self-control could doom this project,

https://thenextweb.com/news/trump-truth-social-network-launch-analysis

Brace yourselves, Trump has just launched his social network

… More than growth or revenue generation, Truth needs to avoid Parler’s fate by keeping hate speech at bay. Otherwise, it may risk being removed from the App Store and losing its user base.

Now that the social network has launched, Trump supporters are out with their megaphones, claiming that the app is already a success — but most of them are on…a waiting list. At the time of writing, Truth social’s website is denying access to new visitors — maybe to avoid a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack.