I use to work at some major tech companies. Was let go for working with pro Palestine movements within the company that wanted to divest. Anyway, that’s the context of who I am to the below point.
Corporate code is dog shit. There are massive security holes in every piece of software. However, most of its security is maintained by “security through obscurity”. It’s just not viable to brute force these vulnerabilities.
Which is why you constantly get “security updates” to patch in a fix that was found by either (1) someone at the company (2) a white hat hacker that finds the issue and reports it for a fee (3) and actual black hat attack that attempts to exploit the vulnerability for profit of political activism.
Why am I talking about this? Well, when their is working class solidarity, when the people working for the company or outside of that company realize that their interest are NOT in a wage or a bounty. But when their interest are aligned with defeating an exploitative system, that works for the benefits of capital owning billionaires, (1) and (2) will disappear. And (1) becomes a very important point of activism essentially turning into (3). The entire technology sectors security is built on the idea that individual workers will protect the security of the software systems that exploit and invade our privacy. That their wage is more valuable to them than the decline in society they experience.
And the ruling class are not at all concerned or even aware of this massive vulnerability to their entire software and hardware infrastructure.
I’m not saying some revolution will happen this way. Or that the QR code part of the meme is viable. I just know that the systems of surveillance that the state is relying on for control. The “AI” systems they think are the future. They are the hubris that will be a part of their fall. They have no fucking idea how they operate but are placing every bet on them to control an angry working class movement that hasn’t even begun to fight back.
TLDR: Radicalize the Linux nerds
Edit: Wrote this not realizing the sub. Would have wrote it with a more tech focused audience in mind if I had. So, forgive the simplifications.
Yeah I’m starting to see the cracks, and the lack of will or people to fix them will cause them to fail in the end. Just a matter of time at this rate unless they all come to their senses about how this ends, even if they get their way, it won’t be for much longer
I use to work at some major tech companies. Was let go for working with pro Palestine movements within the company that wanted to divest. Anyway, that’s the context of who I am to the below point.
Corporate code is dog shit. There are massive security holes in every piece of software. However, most of its security is maintained by “security through obscurity”. It’s just not viable to brute force these vulnerabilities.
Which is why you constantly get “security updates” to patch in a fix that was found by either (1) someone at the company (2) a white hat hacker that finds the issue and reports it for a fee (3) and actual black hat attack that attempts to exploit the vulnerability for profit of political activism.
Why am I talking about this? Well, when their is working class solidarity, when the people working for the company or outside of that company realize that their interest are NOT in a wage or a bounty. But when their interest are aligned with defeating an exploitative system, that works for the benefits of capital owning billionaires, (1) and (2) will disappear. And (1) becomes a very important point of activism essentially turning into (3). The entire technology sectors security is built on the idea that individual workers will protect the security of the software systems that exploit and invade our privacy. That their wage is more valuable to them than the decline in society they experience.
And the ruling class are not at all concerned or even aware of this massive vulnerability to their entire software and hardware infrastructure.
I’m not saying some revolution will happen this way. Or that the QR code part of the meme is viable. I just know that the systems of surveillance that the state is relying on for control. The “AI” systems they think are the future. They are the hubris that will be a part of their fall. They have no fucking idea how they operate but are placing every bet on them to control an angry working class movement that hasn’t even begun to fight back.
TLDR: Radicalize the Linux nerds
Edit: Wrote this not realizing the sub. Would have wrote it with a more tech focused audience in mind if I had. So, forgive the simplifications.
Yeah I’m starting to see the cracks, and the lack of will or people to fix them will cause them to fail in the end. Just a matter of time at this rate unless they all come to their senses about how this ends, even if they get their way, it won’t be for much longer