I work for a french public owned company in transport. The whole company uses Microsoft 365, “sysadmin is an idiot and I don’t trust his password system” [ editing done] etc… Oh yeah, no one thought about cleaning up the system so copilot’s here all right, just sipping in the corner.
We are truly f***d .Doesn’t matter whom attacks, the US, China, Russia, indépendants. They can paralyse this transportation network in a snap. And I know it’s far from a lone example.
The french public services are hopeless as far as computing and basic security is concerned. There are a few times when they struck genius and got productive, secure services out, but day to day companies that are the infrastructure of the country itself are hopeless.
They can paralyse this regional transportation network in a snap
Not to be like overtly careful or avoid discussion of the subject, but maybe don’t make that easier for people by giving somewhat specialised tips like your first paragraph.
I’m not saying the Russians on Lemmy will pick up on that specifically but I don’t think you being that specific brought any more to the comment than having said “our admin is an idiot and I don’t trust his password system at all”.
I’m being way too prudish and cautious — for now.
But I’ve definitely started being more vague about some things, just as practice for when this shit gets worse. I’d like to say “if”, but I don’t believe that rn.
Especially when nowadays technically someone could genuinely just have an LLM crawl for anything like that and then check out who those people are. I don’t underestimate Russian spycraft. Their military, yeah. Their spycraft and sabotage? Less so.
I work for a french public owned company in transport. The whole company uses Microsoft 365, “sysadmin is an idiot and I don’t trust his password system” [ editing done] etc… Oh yeah, no one thought about cleaning up the system so copilot’s here all right, just sipping in the corner.
We are truly f***d .Doesn’t matter whom attacks, the US, China, Russia, indépendants. They can paralyse this transportation network in a snap. And I know it’s far from a lone example.
The french public services are hopeless as far as computing and basic security is concerned. There are a few times when they struck genius and got productive, secure services out, but day to day companies that are the infrastructure of the country itself are hopeless.
Not to be like overtly careful or avoid discussion of the subject, but maybe don’t make that easier for people by giving somewhat specialised tips like your first paragraph.
I’m not saying the Russians on Lemmy will pick up on that specifically but I don’t think you being that specific brought any more to the comment than having said “our admin is an idiot and I don’t trust his password system at all”.
I’m being way too prudish and cautious — for now.
But I’ve definitely started being more vague about some things, just as practice for when this shit gets worse. I’d like to say “if”, but I don’t believe that rn.
Especially when nowadays technically someone could genuinely just have an LLM crawl for anything like that and then check out who those people are. I don’t underestimate Russian spycraft. Their military, yeah. Their spycraft and sabotage? Less so.
Yeah, this is information that’s going to be permanently in my brain now is that the French communication network is crazy easy to paralyze