Hacked humanoid robots are an emerging security threat. A Recorded Future research report warns that compromised robots could be used for industrial espionage — or even physical attacks. China is rapidly scaling its humanoid robotics sector, with projections suggesting up to 300 million units could eventually be deployed to offset population decline. Telcos have a responsibility and opportunity to secure these IoT assets. By Mitch Wagner (that’s me!)
if someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow their orders, and then they burn your house down anyway, you don’t have to keep following their orders. So…Happy Liberation Day?
— The Post-American Internet, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
Returning to work after a 16-day holiday break.
Mitchellaneous CXLIV. Ten things I saw on the internet
The Internet’s Tollbooth Operators.. Tim Wu’s ‘The Age of Extraction’ chronicles the way Big Tech platforms have turned against their users.
We Are the Bad Guys. “The swaggering threat to global stability is us.” — Hamilton Nolan
Mitchellaneous CXLIII. Eight things I saw on the internet
the myth of merit in the managerial class. Merit doesn’t get you hired or promoted for professional and managerial jobs.
Venezuela
The U.S. invasion of Venezuela is going to be a disaster from which we may never recover. Venezuela may prove to be the downfall of the U.S., the way Afghanistan was for the U.S.S.R. (and could have been for the US — having dodged a bullet on that one, just barely, we have now put the barrel of the gun in our mouths and pulled the trigger again).
The only winners of this war will be Trump and his kleptocracy.
Russia will take Ukraine, China will take Taiwan, and Trump will just wave them through.
Congress needs to act to stop this illegal war and impeach Trump. But Congress will do nothing. Congress is as impotent as the Roman Senate under the Caesars.