Monthly Archives: December 2023

Security Theater

Cisco Says AI Will Be Its Own SKU (“GASP!!!”)

News that surprises no one…

Cisco intros AI to find firewall flaws, but it’ll cost you – The Register

No really. I’m totally shocked Cisco will put a SKU on an AI product.

In their ongoing effort to put as many price tags as possible on every single thing they sell, Cisco decided to Cisco their wording in the only way Cisco knows how.

There’s an ongoing trend in cybersecurity where the vendors are vowing to integrate narrow AI into all their products. The problem with this, I feel as a person who is in no way an AI expert, is that NAI (Narrow AI) can nominally train on a concept but has no way to train on context. I believe contextualization requires general AI.

Now I am a cybersecurity professional and I feel that I’m in some degree an expert at certain intricacies in the field, and I understand in my daily work that context is everything. Yes NAI will be a great tool but it shouldn’t be a trusted authority. I do think using NAI to find a flaw in a firewall config is a great idea, but it absolutely should not be depended upon 100%. If the NAI says “everything is great, your firewall is fine…”

And you trust it without going in and doing your own verification, well, here’s a thumbs up for you.

U R GONNA GET PWNED BRO!

TTFN!

Daily Commentary

Daily Commentary For 12/4/2023

The weekend was too short.

Enjoy this picture of the late war criminal Henry Kissinger picking his nose.

He struck booger gold, obviously.

VMWare’s Takeover By Broadcom: “The Employees Better Moo If They Know What’s Good For Them“ – Some Trash Executve Mother****er – Forbes (link title mine)

I use VMWare workstation extensively in a professional capacity and prefer it over Oracle Virtualbox. Hyper-V is good only if you want to use a windows OS as a guest and have any hope of quick desktop interaction with no fuss.

This news article disgusts me on a level that makes me say I’m now going to be re-evaluating my primary VM solution for professional work. I don’t think I can approve this sort of disgusting executive behavior by voting with an upgrade that I need to do soon to workstation.

My original post on infosec.exchange.

AI Fanart

Here’s some randomly generated AI fanart that’s sure to cause whatever model that sucks up the images on my blog to start hallucinating.

Gadget Hackerench
Miko Kubota from Glitch Techs. There is also subtle influence from a MLP Rarity LoRA.
More Miko
And finally some Miko. 🙂

TTFN!

Daily Commentary

Daily Commentary For 11/30/2023

I didn’t have much time to think about anything outside of work so I’m going to post some AI images I’ve generated along with their prompts. But first let me share a link:

Search Engine Optimizaaaaaaaation……..

The birth & death of search engine optimization – Xe Iaso

I personally think of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) as a result of Google’s “algorythmization of search” where it became harder and harder to game relevancy because early tricks to get a business seen online didn’t work anymore. SEO is the primary tool in a war between a closed ad market and its customers. An entire industry sprung up to play a game of cat and mouse with Google. I thought that SEO would die when Google figured out how to cut it off at the neck, I didn’t think AI would save it, but it is. And we are all worse off. Money finds a way.

And now for some AI generated imagery.

I’ve been experimenting with various image models using Invoke AI and I occasionally get some pretty cool results. I claim no copyright to any of these so do with them whatever you like. Have fun with the prompts.

Prompt: skull table wine
Model: Openjourney
Seed: 2951802346

Negative Prompt: brando
Model: Openjourney
Seed: 2342205097

NOTE: Sharing this because HOLY SHIT GETTY IMAGES!!!111

Prompt: fairy under glass
Model: Openjourney
Seed: 828184841

Positive Prompt: human face, cyberpunk, female, cheerleader, pout, angel wings, circuit board
Negative Prompt: render, robot, photo realistic, tattoo, cybernetics
Model: Openjourney
Seed: 1437612319

Prompt: A neuron spreading across a microchip.
Model: Stable Diffusion 2.1
Seed: 3428012634

TTFN!