Imagine your toothbrush subpoenaed to testify against you…

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/toothbrush-hack-cyber-attack-botnet-b2492018.html

Millions of hacked toothbrushes used in Swiss cyber attack, report says

Hackers have infected millions of smart toothbrushes with malware in order to carry out a massive cyber attack against a Swiss company, according to reports.

The internet-connected toothbrushes were linked together in something known as a botnet in order to perform a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which overloads websites and servers with huge amounts of web traffic.

… “Every device that is connected to the Internet is a potential target – or can be misused for an attack,” said Stefan Züger, head of system technology at Fortinet Switzerland. Mr Züger advised owners of smart technologies to take measures to protect themselves.

“Otherwise, sooner or later you will become a victim – or your own device will be misused for attacks,” he said.

Perspective. The “not law” elements of practicing law.

https://abovethelaw.com/2024/02/artificial-intelligence-prompts-and-when-the-source-of-the-error-is-not-between-the-keyboard-and-the-chair/

Artificial Intelligence Prompts And When The Source Of The Error Is NOT Between The Keyboard And The Chair

Boolean mastery was once the coin of the legal writing realm. Marrying keen legal thinking, a sense of how courts write, and the ability to appreciate the difference between a timely “/p” or “w/10,” cemented a young lawyer’s value in the early days of electronic legal research. Primitive eDiscovery also rewarded attorneys who could predict the right searches to get the right results, giving rise to a whole industry of outside discovery vendors. Alas, increasingly robust “natural language” models evened the playing field for everyone else competing with these research ninjas.

As legal enters the generative AI era, the prompt engineer is again ascendant. Once more, the community whispers of the mythic figure of the true engineer who can coax large language models to produce quality content — or at least not get firms sanctioned — and ponders how law schools will train the next generation to write the prompts that will make the whole world spin.