social media does have its benefits though, like the democratisation of the press.
I'm of the opinion that simply banning advertisements outright destroys the incentive structure that exists to keep social media bad
Jumuta
joined 2 years ago
A solution to the toddler unemployment crisis!
are you 11?
not around me
have a look at who proposed this change and you'll see why it's being done. it's clear as day that this isn't a win for anyone on the internet in Australia
just ban advertisements, it's that easy
Association attacks exist in the wild.
Let's say that this is their ebay account. In that case the reward for unlocking each account is very high, so attackers (even in mass attacks) have incentive to put in more work as long as the work cost per account hacked is less than the average reward and there is a net profit.
I assume in this day and age it's probably also viable to use LLMs for password guessing, as long as it's for a high value account. That unlocks a whole another can of worms and if it was me I'd never use low entropy passwords like "moc.y4b3-saltyboi69"
Perhaps this kind of password is viable if it's for an online service that implements rate limiting, but you also have to consider the case that a site gets hacked and their encrypted database (encrypted by each user's password) makes it onto the web. This has happened a lot recently and makes it ridiculously easy for people to throw their GPUs at the task.
people writing password crackers are smarter than that dude
transmission losses are my biggest concern tbh