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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. BLKNSLVR · · focus · HN ↗
            Absolutely.

            It is, however, a glowing beacon of an example of law being designed to maintain the status quo and/or protect companies at the expense of individuals.

            As someone else said, welcome to late stage capitalism.

            1. philipallstar · · focus · HN ↗
              I don't see why, and I've no idea what "late stage capitalism" is, other than people like to repeat the phrase.
              1. nephihaha · · focus · HN ↗
                It is a phrase which implies that capitalism is about to collapse any minute, and that Karl Marx told us so. Marxists have been saying we're in late stage capitalism for nearly 150 years now.
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