Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)

jekwoooooe 6/30/2025|

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supertrope 6/30/2025||

The Internet is by definition universal. Autonomous Systems make their own routing decisions. We cannot cut them off the Internet any more than we can cut off their sea access. If we were to do so (analogous to a naval blockade) you'd have succeeded in only cutting off civilians. Government sponsored or tolerated criminals would still ply their trade like in N Korea.

jekwoooooe 7/1/2025||

AS can also route and black hole traffic. There’s no real reason to continue allowing their traffic on the same internet when it’s all malicious

skeezyboy 6/30/2025||

i had fun with a russian guy on rust once but otherwise cut em all off

quantadev 6/30/2025|

I wonder what DeekSeek agents would do if they discovered at some future time that USA and China are in a kinetic War. Because we don't have the ability to analyze hidden motivations in model weights, it's impossible to predict, although it seems like it would be easy to do at least basic testing (in a sandbox) to seek if it takes any unexpected actions or tries to get data from any unexpected URLs thru agents.

You can't simply ask the AI what it would do in that case, because it will have been trained to deny that it has any harmful plans, and indeed it may not "know", which is a type of attack I've called "Hypnosis Threat Vector". An AI Agent can be trained to be harmful, and not have any way of even self introspecting what it's "Trigger Words" are. The Trigger Words could indeed be some news headline that only China knows how to inject into the news cycle, causing many agents to notice them and then "wake up" to preform what they're "hypnotized" to do.