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Post by BD on Jun 25, 2024 16:39:18 GMT -5
Or at least we believe we are  |
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Post by cretin11 on Jun 25, 2024 16:49:08 GMT -5
LOL, yes we do. I'll rate my confidence level as 100% regarding that belief! Always open to considering credible info to the contrary, but there hasn't been any such info yet.
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Post by prcgorman2 on Jun 25, 2024 17:12:02 GMT -5
LOL, yes we do. I'll rate my confidence level as 100% regarding that belief! Always open to considering credible info to the contrary, but there hasn't been any such info yet. Or to the contrary! |
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Post by sportsrancho on Jun 25, 2024 18:31:46 GMT -5
I have had this happen to me five times on Twitter/X! They DM you after they follow you and have gotten you to follow them, and they’re very engaging people. They have a lot of followers and they talk about all kinds of stuff. I even had an account pretend to be Pete. It’s called “Pete’s private account”. It’s only for very special people.🤣 total scam! As soon as someone DM’s me, I block them. Unless I know them, of course like Timothy Brown. I’m trying to get him to call Fox News and see if he can get on there to do a follow up segment so that we can enlighten them about mealtime insulin! But as far as Pro-Boards goes….the monitors can see things we can’t see:-) The technology is amazing:-)) |
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Post by mytakeonit on Jun 25, 2024 19:02:16 GMT -5
Okay ... I guess I better start wearing underwear.
But, that's mytakeonit
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Post by bones1026 on Jun 25, 2024 20:20:08 GMT -5
Sadly the words of PT Barnum still ring true. Con men are out there and targets/victims abound. The type of competent moderation we enjoy on ProBoards weeds out so much. It helps us be completely confident in assuring prcgorman (and anyone else with doubts) there is nobody paid by mysterious and nefarious parties to post on this message board. The closest thing we've had to a scam such as in the link above was when MTOI used to ask for $20 for his investment assistance. Even he hasn't done that in a long time (thanks MTOI!) so we are completely clear of scammers. As someone mentioned on another thread, nobody has any clue who are behind some of these posts, yet you are so sure they’re are no “shorts” or “nobody compensated to post their constant negative opinion…just curious, how the heck do you know what every posters intent is, sir?!?!? |
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Post by mayday on Jun 25, 2024 20:51:25 GMT -5
Okay ... I guess I better start wearing underwear. But, that's mytakeonit Or at least stop phoning the Czar! |
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Post by BD on Jun 25, 2024 20:53:45 GMT -5
Okay ... I guess I better start wearing underwear. But, that's mytakeonit You mean you've been violating Board Rule 8.1 for all these years?? Tsk tsk tsk. |
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Post by ktim on Jun 25, 2024 21:18:30 GMT -5
Sadly the words of PT Barnum still ring true. Con men are out there and targets/victims abound. The type of competent moderation we enjoy on ProBoards weeds out so much. It helps us be completely confident in assuring prcgorman (and anyone else with doubts) there is nobody paid by mysterious and nefarious parties to post on this message board. The closest thing we've had to a scam such as in the link above was when MTOI used to ask for $20 for his investment assistance. Even he hasn't done that in a long time (thanks MTOI!) so we are completely clear of scammers. As someone mentioned on another thread, nobody has any clue who are behind some of these posts, yet you are so sure they’re are no “shorts” or “nobody compensated to post their constant negative opinion…just curious, how the heck do you know what every posters intent is, sir?!?!? I thought we are all getting paid to post. Surely no one does this without compensation. I'm making 6 figures just here on proboards. I hope whoever you're working for pays at least that well. It's a difficult job, but very important in the grand scheme of things.  |
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Post by BD on Jun 25, 2024 22:35:32 GMT -5
OK, then from now on the tax to be allowed to post here is 10% of whatever you're being paid. I'm self-employed so I ain't getting bupkis, same as the other staffers. I'm not putting up with this, it's time to pay the piper!
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Post by mytakeonit on Jun 25, 2024 23:31:39 GMT -5
I would ... but you've bumped me off the board before ... so you get NADA !!!
But, that's mytakeonit
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Post by prcgorman2 on Jun 26, 2024 6:35:47 GMT -5
I have had this happen to me five times on Twitter/X! They DM you after they follow you and have gotten you to follow them, and they’re very engaging people. They have a lot of followers and they talk about all kinds of stuff. I even had an account pretend to be Pete. It’s called “Pete’s private account”. It’s only for very special people.🤣 total scam! As soon as someone DM’s me, I block them. Unless I know them, of course like Timothy Brown. I’m trying to get him to call Fox News and see if he can get on there to do a follow up segment so that we can enlighten them about mealtime insulin! But as far as Pro-Boards goes….the monitors can see things we can’t see:-) The technology is amazing:-)) Its going to get worse before it gets better. Much worse is my assumption. The combination of AI and cyberattacks which target personal information are creating a treasure trove for targeted fraud and the scammers are casting the nets wider and wider with greater efficiency which is where AI has been particularly helpful. Personal “data at rest” is a real risk and if/when “quantum computing” becomes real (if it hasn’t already) its frankly very alarming what can/will happen. The particular vulnerability of concern with quantum computing is that encrypted data at rest relies upon “keys” which in theory will be able to be guessed by quantum computing. The tech giants and the US government have all been successfully hacked and information stolen. The quantity of information available to nation state bad actors and organized crime is staggering and their ability to reach target victims over the Internet is dramatic. “Pig butchering” of targeted victims is becoming more common and not just perpetrated against Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs). With AI, a 30 second sample of audio from online sources such as Facebook can be used to play a script of anything a scammer might want the stolen voice to say to the point where a person familiar with the voice has difficulty distinguishing the real voice from the AI-enabled voice. This is current technology. Its going to get worse. People need to be better educated about the risks of online interaction, and effective strategies to protect personal information need to be developed and deployed, starting with using cryptography to control selective sharing of (in some cases obfuscated) personal data (using zero-knowledge proofs). Creating dozens of online accounts and passwords or relying on Google, Facebook, and Microsoft as authenticators and verifiers of identity isn’t going to cut it much longer. If you read this far, you may now know why it is I am not a very trusting person. |
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Post by BD on Jun 26, 2024 6:48:29 GMT -5
w/r/t quantum computing defeating encryption, I've been told (by a friend who'd know) that the gov't has been working on that issue for a while and it's a fixable problem. In the meantime, machines don't have enough qubits yet to effectively break strong encryption, and may not for a long time.
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Post by prcgorman2 on Jun 26, 2024 7:55:31 GMT -5
w/r/t quantum computing defeating encryption, I've been told (by a friend who'd know) that the gov't has been working on that issue for a while and it's a fixable problem. In the meantime, machines don't have enough qubits yet to effectively break strong encryption, and may not for a long time. I have a friend who is a member of an industry working group focused on developing “quantum resistant” algorithms. It is interesting and challenging work. I agree folks are (rightfully) working on the problem, but my outside-looking-in view is, “we ain’t there yet”. And unfortunately the real problems facing us right now are not dependent on quantum computing to do the dirty work. |
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Post by uvula on Jun 26, 2024 8:45:43 GMT -5
We are getting way off topic but there are simple ways to make passwords safer. For example, websites can limit how often you can guess. If you have to wait 1 second per guess it won't matter how fast the computers are.
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