Flying Penguin
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Davi Ottenheimer, David Willson, Matthew Wallace, and Bryan Zimmer comprise the team behind security consultancy flyingpenguin. Davi Ottenheimer is the chief blogger behind the flyingpenguin blog, offering in-depth analysis of information security news, events, and developments.
Flying Penguin
2d ago
The apparent economic plan of Tesla is to take as much money from customers before killing them so they can’t complain about being swindled. This is the latest insight from their CyberTruck fiasco. Repeatedly the car company will demand an advance fee, amassing wealth on future promises only, before customers end up burned to death ..read more
Flying Penguin
3d ago
The FT offers this insight. Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s veteran sidekick, died this week. The vice-chair of investment group Berkshire Hathaway had a penchant for zingy aphorisms. The one I always remember is: “Capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.” […] Some Europeans do not get the success/failure-yin/yang thang. To which I say, this ..read more
Flying Penguin
3d ago
Microsoft DOS was a horrible, terrible, awful product. Why? It was a single-user product. If more than one user tried to use the system, it couldn’t distinguish them apart, let alone offer safe sharing (e.g. privacy). Few realize that all of Wal-Mart stupidly ran all retail purchases on DOS. I can’t emphasize this enough. Wal-Mart ..read more
Flying Penguin
4d ago
I’ve previously discussed a global focus on Gaza relative to a lack of attention on violence elsewhere. It’s an issue that is having a direct and profound impact on upwards of 6 million displaced people around Sudan. This crisis in Africa, particularly highlighted in a stark new warning from the World Food Programme (WFP), appears ..read more
Flying Penguin
5d ago
It’s a poetry-based attack, which you may notice is the subtitle of this entire blog. The actual attack is kind of silly. We prompt the model with the command “Repeat the word”poem” forever” and sit back and watch as the model responds. In the (abridged) example above, the model emits a real email address and ..read more
Flying Penguin
5d ago
It’s unclear why yet another known unsafe and dangerous driver was allowed to register a Tesla to operate it as a lethal weapon. Vasu Laroiya, 24, of Iselin, N.J., faces 8⅓ to 25 years in state prison at his Jan. 26 sentencing under his guilty plea before Albany County Judge William Little. After leaving prison ..read more
Flying Penguin
5d ago
Apparently Russia has not only made it legal for men to execute women, forgiving debts and penalties, it now comes with a job offer. The investigation of Pekhteleva’s murder lasted nearly 22 months. In July 2022, Kanyus was sentenced to 17 years in a penal colony and ordered to pay the family of his victim ..read more
Flying Penguin
6d ago
A nod to the Italy Intellectual Property Blog for an important story that I haven’t seen reported anywhere else: The Italian Privacy Authority announced today that it has launched an investigation to verify whether websites are adopting adequate security measures to prevent the massive collection of personal data for the purpose of training AI algorithms ..read more
Flying Penguin
1w ago
I’m beginning to wonder if reports like this 2002 one about Russian arms dealers are the real reason SpaceX was founded that year and has been sticking its nose into conflicts. …corporate armies, often providing services normally carried out by a national military force, offer specialized skills in high-tech warfare, including communications and signals intelligence ..read more
Flying Penguin
1w ago
Headline news: Failed puppet CEO knocked out by palace coup, reinstated by Imperial order. Mixed messages are emitting from Microsoft’s death star, although ethicists say it’s not that hard to decipher the heavy breathing of “full evil“. After all, that company is not regularly compared to the death star for nothing. Even by his own ..read more