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OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals

256 points · 257 comments · jonnonz

  1. BeetleB · · focus · HN ↗
    What's notable is:

    1. AFAICT, they don't state whether the flaw has been fixed.

    2. He said: "The government will establish a task force led by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to urgently examine the incident and determine whether existing processes are adequate for responding to AI-related cyber incidents."

    First, I don't know how sophisticated the attack was, but it's interesting that he's positioning this as an "AI-related cyber incident". For all we know, their security was not up to snuff, and human hackers had already accessed the material.

    At least OpenAI informed them of their poor security!

    1. Eduard · · focus · HN ↗
      blaming the victim
      1. BLKNSLVR · · focus · HN ↗
        Added to the fact that, if I recall correctly, according to US law it's a breach even if the data is publicly available but unintentionally.

        Refer: Weev AT&T

        1. philipallstar · · focus · HN ↗
          Which is mad, really.
          1. stubish · · focus · HN ↗
            It seems pretty fundamental concept in most modern civilizations. Pick pocketing and purse snatching is illegal despite the property being publicly accessible. We do need reliable courts to determine intent.
            1. philipallstar · · focus · HN ↗
              That's not really the same, though. If a website has content publicly available, that you should "take", how can a bot determine what it means to publish and what it accidentally published?
              1. stubish · · focus · HN ↗
                Yes, how can a bot determine that? Humans make a judgement call and take responsibility. And maybe a judge makes a judgement if it was a crime or a mistake.
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