chatGPT-4 and William Search 2023 discuss Moral Compass theory

 2023.7.23: bk.cyb/ai/
William Search 2023`Moral Compass theory with chatGPT

"Conversations with chatGPT: 

Exploring the Theory of Morality and Existence" 

- 2nd Edition

https://amzn.to/3pZLazG[ad]

5-star/this is a delicious topic and a great test of AI:

#911truther openai.com's #chatgpt

2023.2.1: pol/911truther/openai.com's chatgpt:

summary:

here is my conversation with ChatGPT;

it warned it "May occasionally produce

harmful instructions or biased content"

and it is very biased about 9/11.

I ask it for sources, and how it gets its sources:

it can't choose what it is trained on.

many blog pages crawled but excluded from Google's index

2022.3.27: mis.cyb/net.google/
many blog pages crawled but excluded from index:

 . I was hoping that google indexed everything 

so if I had a quote from my blog,
I would be able to find all of my articles
that mention that quote.
. but there are over 170 pages excluded from being indexed;
some of them are possibly too trivial,
and some may be seen as disinfo,
(or taking on forbidden points of view).
. I gathered all the suppressed pages on one page

so that I could analyze what could be wrong with them.

ipad.art set 4/erasing a layer

 21.2.1: proj.cyb/ipad.art set 4/erasing a layer:

. after a base layer, I filled a 2nd layer

and then activated both erase and linedraw.

. the color fill didn't include the paper's texture

but painting on it brought the texture back.

(brush/wash/damp) made it look like a water color.

. used (blend/sponge blender) 

to make the erasure lines less crisp.

. added some more erasure shaped with (marker pen round)

hrblock.com appearing to do free tax filing until I qualified for Saver's Credit

 2021.2.3: mis.cyb/net.hrblock.com/

hrblock.com pretending to do free tax filing until I qualified for Saver's Credit:

I tried HR free file from this link;

https://www.hrblock.com/online-tax-filing/free-online-tax-filing/

even after Fox news said H&R Block said

they were pulling out of the free e-file tax business.

[foxbusiness Jun 16, 2020]

https://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/hr-block-irs-relationship-free-file

"Tax preparation company H&R Block 

has decided it will no longer participate

in an IRS sponsored program to provide

free filing options to low-income Americans."

. I was confused because H&R Block does indeed

still claim to provide some free service,

but their free offer didn't apply to me

because you can't have savers credit for free.

mounting a Sangean DT-180 pocket radio on a neckband

 2021.2.2: co.amazon/cyb`gear/radio#Sangean DT-180/
5-star/mounting a Sangean DT-180 pocket radio on a neckband:

. after my pocket radio died, I picked up the Sangean DT-180

https://amzn.to/36CmNeq

. this radio's only attachment is a hole that will anchor a tether;

I tied that to a neckband's clip loop;

and also hold it in place with rubber bands

that I got from bunches of broccoli.

least-hassle way to get cash from using Bing search

2020.1.6: aq.cyb/net.bing/
least-hassle way to get cash from using Bing search:
. google is an important search engine
being my only access to some finds;
but the Microsoft Rewards program
gives you amazon cash for searching with Bing.com;
so I set my browser's default search engine to bing,
and keep google in my bookmarks bar for quick access.
. during days of research or reading news online,
I have hundreds of simple questions that bing is good at,
such as word definitions and spellings,
along with most of my questions about
health, politics, and religion.
. there is a limit of 150 points per day;
at 5 points per search, that is 30 searches.
more about earning points.
. in 2020 I get $10 for 10,500 points (70 days);
practically, I earned about $20 in 1.5 years.

how to avoid malware on flash drives

19.11.20: cyb/sec/how to avoid malware on flash drives:
co.quora:
. any computer is prone to infections from
visiting malware-infected websites or pdf's;
most usb peripherals contain firmware
that can be infected with malware,
so that a website can infect computer firmware;
then it can infect your flash drive firmware
which can then infect other computers.

bluff email ransomware for bitcoin# 1C2EbKJCZKtHMJawxBqyzZ9SHQVwRyfist

mis.cyb/sec/malware/
bluff email ransomware for bitcoin# 1C2EbKJCZKtHMJawxBqyzZ9SHQVwRyfist:
. this letter was in my spam
(Oct 6, 2019, 12:50 PM
subject: Hohe Gefahr. Konto wurde angegriffen.)
seeming to come from my own account;
but gmail warns there is no way to verify this;
it warns of a trojan but I use a chromebook,
which is not so prone to trojans.
. here is what the letter said
translated by google from german
(not necessarily the language of the attacker):

snapshot unresponsive? check for shortcut changes:

3.4: web.cyb/mac/snapshot unresponsive? check for shortcut changes:
. the mac snapshot shortcut no longer works;
one reason could be Apple had the bright idea of
moving the shortcut to Shift-Command-5:
(macOS 10.14 Mojave was released on September 24, 2018)
In earlier macOS versions than Mojave,
use Shift-Command-3 or Shift-Command-4 for screenshots.

archive time for Google+

proj.cyb/net.gp/archive time for Google+:
2.4: summary:
. if you were a user of google plus social media
which is being discontinued
and you wanted to save some of your data
there are several ways,
but the easiest most complete way, Takeout,
may have a problem with its folder structure
that causes some of its html files to have bad links.
. in my case it help moving the subfolders from
google+stream/Photos/Miscellaneous Photos/,
into the folder google+stream/Photos/Photos from posts/.
. it gives you the option to put the takeout
on your google drive, but keep in mind,
if you want to look at the html files
you can't see their images on g'drive;
so you need to download it locally to test the takeout.

Intel ME OS is Minix3 -Google wants Linux

17.11.6: news.cyb/sec/Intel Mgt Engine OS is Minix3 while Google wants Linux:
2018: summary:
. below the OS level is hypervisor,
and below hypervisor level is
the ME (mgt engine).
. it allows the maker of the pc
to do updates even when power seems off,
as long as there is internet.
. the ME uses the secure Minix OS kernel,
but also includes a web browser,
and other huge amounts of functionality
that you can't get the bugs out of,
so Google suggests replacing it with
a Linux kernel and less functionality.
. this has the potential to be a back door
with which the national security agencies
can better protect us from terrorists
and others who take advantage of privacy.

call for increasing offensive cyber capability

1.3: news.cyb/sec/call for increasing offensive cyber capability:
. the military wants to focus on cyber offense;
the thing to keep in mind with offense,
is it involves placing vulnerabilities
in the hardware that is used internationally;
and that will affect the security of everyone
when those vulnerabilities get out
into the hands of cyber criminals.

apps using #Python may be vulnerable

1.2: news.cyb/sec/lang/python/undocumented methods:
Liam Tung 2017:
IOActive researcher Fernando Arnaboldi
revealed Python has "undocumented methods
and local environment variables
that can be used for OS command execution".
ref:
blackhat presentation:
Exposing Hidden Exploitable Behaviors in Programming Languages
Using Differential Fuzzing:
A differential fuzzing framework was created to detect
dangerous and unusual behaviors in
similar software implementations.
1.16: the paper:
. some Python commands are undocumented because
they are for deprecated functions;
meaning don't use the functions in new code,
but for backward compatiblity we are
keeping the function in place undocumented.
. documentation can be there to warn you
that a function doesn't check its inputs,
so you shouldn't feed it data from an untrusted source.

DOD DNI want #cyberwar command split from #NSA

10.6: news.pol/purges/war/
DOD DNI want cyberwar command split from NSA:
10.18: summary:
. the same technology used for hacking into computers
can be used for both gathering info (NSA activities)
and for making foreign computers do malicious things
(cyberwar command activities).
. anybody with that technology can do both;
not surprisingly both activities have been headed by
the same director (a military general)
but since Snowden exposed that NSA is spying on its citizens
privacy defenders want NSA headed by senate-selected civilian
rather than a general selected by the military.

omnity.io free search is very limited

2.13: news.web.cyb/net.omnity.io/contextual search:

. the free version of search at
https://www.omnity.io/
seems to have access to very little content:
after a dozen searches I got directed to only 3 sources,
wikipedia, patents, and clinical trials.
. it's main feature is contextual search:
if you upload a file then it will find similar items.

#NSA owns #linux even without #monolithic arch

2.19: cyb/sec/#NSA owns #linux even without #monolithic arch:
. I once thought the creator of linux
must be part of the NSA's conspiracy to
put vulnerabilities in open source:
he spurned the idea of a securable microkernel,
promoting instead the efficiency of a monolithic OS
written in the C programming language
which is notoriously difficult to secure .
. but if you look at all the other vulnerabilities
(such as USB support, and firmware rewritability),
a microkernel written in a safe language
would not have really mattered much .
. just look at what Chrome OS did with linux:
it removed many of the other vulnerabilities
and the linux core remains a survivor .

#encryption export controls #Logjam

5.27: news.cyb/sec/encryption export controls/Logjam:
arstechnica:
The new attack has been dubbed Logjam,
( the name is a pun on the "discrete log"
math operation used to break the weak keys.
But the name is also an allusion to the fact that
these '90s-era export ciphers are part of an
immense amount of technical debt
that's built up in our crypto protocols,"
"There's just too much dead wood that's accumulated over the years."
)
The weakness is the result of export restrictions
the US government mandated in the 1990s
to enable less secure encryption for foreigners
so the FBI and NSA could eavesdrop on them .

Google`Project Zero on #Apple

2.4: news.cyb/sec/Google`Project Zero on #Apple:
intego.com`mac security:
. Google's Project Zero finds flaws in software;
and gives a 90-day warning before releasing details
including proof-of-concept code .

Defense sees cloud computing as insecure

news.cyb/sec/Defense sees cloud computing as insecure:
3.17: 3.29: summary:
. I'm interested in cloud computing primarily because
that is promoted by Google's Chrome OS platform;
however, what makes that platform most secure
is not so much that it relies on cloud computing,
but because it strictly controls the firmware
and this avoids advanced persistent malware .
. the usa's DoD (Dept of Defense) is moving to cloud computing
(saving money by outsourcing to private industry
instead of using DoD's own servers)
but they are not putting all their data there;
because, some of it is too sensitive .
. what they are hoping for
is that they can get private industry
to set up their servers on DoD property,
where physical access to the servers
can be monitored by the DoD .
. another issue is that top secret communications
are done on a network that is separate from
the public's internet .