Listening to cybersecurity people freak out over Mythos is so tiring. Like, bro, your local water treatment plant runs Windows XP, your mobile provider's hardware is older than you are, and the protocol that routes internet traffic is secured by everyone just agreeing that hijacking it would be uncool.
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"Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench"
(Gene Spafford)
@malwaretech I think you underestimate how ancient some of us are. I'm definitely older than anything my mobile provider owns, cos I'm older than the industry.
@malwaretech I truly don't understand it. CISOs and managers are jizzing themselves from snake oil is not new but form technical people I'd expect more.
@malwaretech now now, don't be raggin' on my local water treatment plant, they're much more up to date than that. they run Windows Vista.
@malwaretech (don't ask about the Windows NT4 machine in the PLC cabinet. nobody knows what it does but we're all too scared to turn it off in case the 5GB Maxtor hard drive in there dies during spinup)
@gsuberland @malwaretech it's scary 'cause it's true 🫣
@floe @malwaretech it's based on real events :D
@malwaretech I liked the days when we were panicking about China listening in on all our telephone calls / scooping up our mobile data.
Now we just talk directly to some American company's AI and ask them to diagnose our medical problems that we're too embarrassed to see a real doctor for.
@malwaretech 😉 (although bgp isn't as bad as it was in practice the days, but point made!)
@malwaretech Not to mention that this isn't new...LLMs have been able to do this since day one. And small models found the same vulnerabilities in FreeBSD ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also, from what I understand Mythos couldn't actually make an exploit for that bug, sooooooo big marketing stink imho.
@malwaretech I don’t care, if this puts security back on the agenda, I’ll take it…
