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Old 08-13-2024, 02:10 AM
AnchorAlumna AnchorAlumna is offline
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It's Tuesday at 1:10 a.m. CDT. I'm the only member online, and there are 1,757 guests prowling about.
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Old 08-14-2024, 01:27 AM
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15,051 was the highest number of "Online Users" so far.

Most of those were some kind of bot or web crawler. Some of those should no longer show up in the Online Users count, so the numbers shouldn't be all that high anymore, at least not on a regular basis unless GC has an explosion of traffic or more bots arrive. Just made these changes a few minutes ago.
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Old 08-14-2024, 11:19 PM
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1182- The bots must be sleeping

I've been at a security conference for a few days and learned about a bot net of thousands of refrigerators you can purchase to attack sites for you, on the dark web. A whole army of refrigerators- what would people in the 50's say if you told them that would happen some day??
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Old 08-15-2024, 11:21 PM
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1182- The bots must be sleeping
I gave them some virtual melatonin. Hopefully that works for a bit.

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I've been at a security conference for a few days and learned about a bot net of thousands of refrigerators you can purchase to attack sites for you, on the dark web.
All it probably took was a single security flaw and those IoT / Internet of Things devices were quickly turned into an IoB / Internet of Bots. Crazy.

My guess is that eventually there'll be bot armies controlled by AI as well as AI trained for hacking. Probably exists to some extent already. Mix in some LLM stuff and... I suppose we are in store for an interesting tech future.

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A whole army of refrigerators- what would people in the 50's say if you told them that would happen some day??
It kinda sounds crazy even today. In the 50's, might not have even made sense to most people back then. But by the 60s they had The Jetsons & Star Trek...
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Old 08-16-2024, 08:49 PM
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