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  • So how does this actually work? Lets say there is a package called A version 2.2.1. Other creates a fake package A 2.2.2 with malicous script and publishes it in npm. My question is why would anyone install this if it is not coming from the original package’s publisher? Would an automated updater even use these packages for an update if it is not coming from the same publisher? My second question is did this attacker use hundereds of different accounts to publish these hundereds of packages? If not isn’t it suspicious that a single account published so many packages all at once?




  • "That means that Palantir software can only be used to process data precisely in line with the instruction of the customer. Using the data for anything else would not only be illegal but technically impossible due to granular access controls overseen by the NHS.”

    I mean after you have analysed the data and gotten all the knowledge you need to get out of it, who the hell cares who owns the data. This only means you can’t sell the data to other parties but you can still consult other governments, private health insurance companies etc for shit tons of money. I imagine most organizations would prefer the refined knowledge anyway since getting the data means they still need to process it somehow. Not to mention increasing chances of data leakage as you give more people unrestricted access to the data.

    Why can’t Palantir design the system and test it on some mock dataset or a portion of the dataset after which an engineer actually working for NHS tests the system on the whole data in an isolated environment that does not feed the data back to anywhere else. I thought their only role was organizational. Why do they need unrestricted access to the whole dataset so badly?





  • “In a 2005 paper published in Nature, as part of their investigation into global catastrophic risks, MIT physicist Max Tegmark and Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom calculate the natural risks of the destruction of the Earth at less than 1/109 per year from all natural (i.e. non-anthropogenic) events, including a transition to a lower vacuum state. They argue that due to observer selection effects, we might underestimate the chances of being destroyed by vacuum decay because any information about this event would reach us only at the instant when we too were destroyed.”



  • Hey look, it’s one of those American owned major Alberta papers.

    Sure however it is not very sound logic that an American owned media outlet trying to stoke separatist movement warns Canada against foreign influence on separatist movements. I do genuinely believe that American owned Canadian news outlets are there to spread propaganda. But a more nuanced understanding of this is that the form of propaganda changes according to context. Around the time this news was released (2019), US’s main motivation probably wasn’t to stoke separatism in Canada but probably to fight it since US interests and Canadian interests aligned at the time. So they benefited more in fighting against Russian supported separatism. Now under Trump they have changed their foreign policies regarding this and have the same angle as Russia. I am not intent on proving that US is not a major player in stoking world-wide right wing extremism, my point is that they are currently partners with Russia on this.

    I can give you tens of more references regarding.

    https://disinfowatch.org/disinfo/putins-neo-fascist-philosopher-targets-canada-and-national-unity/

    https://www.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/news/2024/09/statement-by-minister-joly-on-russian-interference.html

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11361841/

    and you can repeat “meh don’t like this reference, it is west propaganda” until infinity.

    However, 1- Your fervour in discrediting any Russian influence on Canadian politics, to the level of being aggressive and insulting, 2- Just discrediting references that don’t align with your world view without providing any as counter proof or trying to understand nuances, 3-following the usual rhetoric of “it is US backed propaganda against Russia” and 4-Getting offended by me calling Putin the same turd that is Trump makes me think you are an ml alt account. If not consider joining.