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cybersecurity-friday-small-business
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title: : CSF_03: today’s Cybersecurity Friday post: the effective security of small business websites has likely gotten worse due to LLMs and “AI agents” (with or without safeguards) and what actions you may want to consider.This article documents an instance of this problem:* https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986Small business websites tend to be sloppily written (no pun intended though that may also be true) and are likely riddled with numerous very fundamental security holes. There are many possible explanations (economics) from poor initial construction, perhaps using the latest new trendy framework rather than established hardened libraries, to lack of maintenance after initial setup. They have obvious holes like lack of server-side form validation (people being able to change values in forms using browser dev tools), and less obvious like buggy APIs allowing more access than they should.In the past, many of these holes didn’t really matter because those sites were “not worth attacking” for the incentive models of human-based cyber-attackers or collectives thereof.However, now that there are LLMs that have likely been trained on any number of common security holes in websites (and how to exploit them), when an “AI agent” is given a task, it may very well use any “tool” at its disposal, including website vulnerabilities to accomplish its goals, as illustrated by the example in the Australia ABC news article above.Since such chatbots are now essentially "hack websites as a service", I expect we will see LOTS more of this happening, likely unintentionally, or sometimes with mild intention like “can you get me higher on the waitlist”.Ultimately I think both the human giving instructions to (prompting) such chatbots and the creators of such chatbots should be held responsible for any such intrusions and any damage they cause, even if/when unintended.There are a few things you can do about this emerging phenomenon:1…
link: https://status.blaise.ca/notice/116336
description: 's status on Friday, 14-Aug-2026 16:41:00 EDT
encoded: CSF_03: today’s Cybersecurity Friday post: the effective security of small business websites has likely gotten worse due to LLMs and “AI agents” (with or without safeguards) and what actions you may want to consider. This article documents an instance of this problem: * https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986 Small business websites tend to be sloppily written (no pun intended though that may also be true) and are likely riddled with numerous very fundamental security holes. There are many possible explanations (economics) from poor initial construction, perhaps using the latest new trendy framework rather than established hardened libraries, to lack of maintenance after initial setup. They have obvious holes like lack of server-side form validation (people being able to change values in forms using browser dev tools), and less obvious like buggy APIs allowing more access than they should. In the past, many of these holes didn’t really matter because those sites were “not worth attacking” for the incentive models of human-based cyber-attackers or collectives thereof. However, now that there are LLMs that have likely been trained on any number of common security holes in websites (and how to exploit them), when an “AI agent” is given a task, it may very well use any “tool” at its disposal, including website vulnerabilities to accomplish its goals, as illustrated by the example in the Australia ABC news article above. Since such chatbots are now essentially "hack websites as a service", I expect we will see LOTS more of this happening, likely unintentionally, or sometimes with mild intention like “can you get me higher on the waitlist”. Ultimately I think both the human giving instructions to (prompting) such chatbots and the creators of such chatbots should be held responsible for any such intrusions and any damage they cause, even if/when unintended. There are a few things you can do about this emerging phenom…
date: 2026-08-14T16:41:00-04:00
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tron-prescience-programs-thinking-people-stop
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title: : 1982 TRON prescience: “Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop.” — Walter2026 students:“How do you know an assignment is AI proof? Because when it is, students cannot do it.”* https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/comments/1vkw6by/how_do_you_know_an_assignment_is_ai_proof_because/“I assign a profile essay. Have for 30 years. Student interviews a person, records it, writes a paper based off the recording. Citations are timestamps. Should be pretty easy. Has been easy pre-AI. Now, students cannot do it.”Snippet from professor/student dialog:====Prof: ”Start with what you found interesting.”Student: ”How do I know if something’s interesting?”Prof: ”You’re asking me how you find something interesting?”Student: ”Yeah.” ====Chatbots / LLMs are not just "the latest tools" like using a calculator instead of doing arithmetic yourself.Students are being robbed of curiosity, learning to discover and notice novelty, how to “find something interesting.”This isn't cognitive enhancement, this is a tool causing brain rot (loss of curiosity), even a developmental disability. Unclear if it is reversible.TRON quote citation: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084827/quotes/?item=qt0406255#TRON #TRON1982 #AIproof #interesting #chatBot #chatBots #LLM #LLMs #AI #brainRot #AIbrainRot #disability #Blaugust #Blaugust2026
link: https://status.blaise.ca/notice/116338
description: 's status on Thursday, 13-Aug-2026 03:01:00 EDT
encoded: 1982 TRON prescience: “Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop.” — Walter 2026 students: “How do you know an assignment is AI proof? Because when it is, students cannot do it.” * https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/comments/1vkw6by/how_do_you_know_an_assignment_is_ai_proof_because/ “I assign a profile essay. Have for 30 years. Student interviews a person, records it, writes a paper based off the recording. Citations are timestamps. Should be pretty easy. Has been easy pre-AI. Now, students cannot do it.” Snippet from professor/student dialog: ==== Prof: ”Start with what you found interesting.” Student: ”How do I know if something’s interesting?” Prof: ”You’re asking me how you find something interesting?” Student: ”Yeah.” ==== Chatbots / LLMs are not just "the latest tools" like using a calculator instead of doing arithmetic yourself. Students are being robbed of curiosity, learning to discover and notice novelty, how to “find something interesting.” This isn't cognitive enhancement, this is a tool causing brain rot (loss of curiosity), even a developmental disability. Unclear if it is reversible. TRON quote citation: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084827/quotes/?item=qt0406255 #TRON #TRON1982 #AIproof #interesting #chatBot #chatBots #LLM #LLMs #AI #brainRot #AIbrainRot #disability #Blaugust #Blaugust2026
date: 2026-08-13T03:01:00-04:00
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blog-as-if-ai-trained-posts
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title: : Blog as if there’s an #AI being trained¹ to be you based on your blog posts.And what if it was trained on your Universal Outbox²?#IndieWeb #OpenAI #ChatGPTThis is day 34 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days← Day 33: https://tantek.com/2023/051/t1/five-years-ago-w3c-social-web→ 🔮¹ https://indieweb.org/OpenAI#IndieWeb_Examples² https://tantek.com/2023/044/t1/unified-sent-box-universal-outbox
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encoded: Blog as if there’s an #AI being trained¹ to be you based on your blog posts. And what if it was trained on your Universal Outbox²? #IndieWeb #OpenAI #ChatGPT This is day 34 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days ← Day 33: https://tantek.com/2023/051/t1/five-years-ago-w3c-social-web → 🔮 ¹ https://indieweb.org/OpenAI#IndieWeb_Examples ² https://tantek.com/2023/044/t1/unified-sent-box-universal-outbox
date: 2023-03-13T19:51:00-04:00
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