> This is both fascinating and a scary reminder of what the future has in store for us in a deepfake world.
Social engineering has always been a thing, check out this Darknet Diary podcast about the Lazeraus hacking collective group (suspected to be N. Korean digital Army) and how they have try/tried to infiltrate their way into crytocurrency based exchanges--and have succeeded in the past--using all kinds of methods including hijacking CVs from Linkedin.
The truth is that while the advent of deepfakes and even text to image AI/ML based tech has muddled the waters even more, it's always been a challenge to not encounter some level of difficulty when dealing with verification. Fraud is and will always remain a component in daily operations of any organization.
We have a saying in the Bitcoin space that i think applies here: Do not trust, verify.
And this is why I think people need to understand that the usecases for an immutable ledger can and will go beyond just a digital token (it's only the backbone), and these usecases (the limbs and appendages to continue with the body metaphor) will become more imperative in the 21st Century: you can manipulate all you want via social media and many have, but if verified sources with proper validation is stored on an immutable ledger with a cryptographic proof of work blockchain that is impossible to alter then you can essentially have the closest thing to verifiable truth Online.
Jacob Applbaum said it best when he said that to maintain security online you'll likely have to adopt 2 or more identities separate from each other to continue to have some level of assurance that your personas are not traceable to your real ID in a World where Doxxing became 'a thing' Online. I wonder hat he has to say about the OPSEC/INFOSEC space now that we have the ability to mimic people Online so closely with very little resources.
Social engineering has always been a thing, check out this Darknet Diary podcast about the Lazeraus hacking collective group (suspected to be N. Korean digital Army) and how they have try/tried to infiltrate their way into crytocurrency based exchanges--and have succeeded in the past--using all kinds of methods including hijacking CVs from Linkedin.
The truth is that while the advent of deepfakes and even text to image AI/ML based tech has muddled the waters even more, it's always been a challenge to not encounter some level of difficulty when dealing with verification. Fraud is and will always remain a component in daily operations of any organization.
We have a saying in the Bitcoin space that i think applies here: Do not trust, verify.
And this is why I think people need to understand that the usecases for an immutable ledger can and will go beyond just a digital token (it's only the backbone), and these usecases (the limbs and appendages to continue with the body metaphor) will become more imperative in the 21st Century: you can manipulate all you want via social media and many have, but if verified sources with proper validation is stored on an immutable ledger with a cryptographic proof of work blockchain that is impossible to alter then you can essentially have the closest thing to verifiable truth Online.
Jacob Applbaum said it best when he said that to maintain security online you'll likely have to adopt 2 or more identities separate from each other to continue to have some level of assurance that your personas are not traceable to your real ID in a World where Doxxing became 'a thing' Online. I wonder hat he has to say about the OPSEC/INFOSEC space now that we have the ability to mimic people Online so closely with very little resources.
0: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/119/