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[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub 38 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Let me guess. Some guy fed it into AI.

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's not just AI, but there is a bunch of AI:

To attack the problem, Baber used artifical intelligence and generated a list of 71 million possible 13-letter names. Using known details of the Zodiac killer, based on witness descriptions, he cross-checked those names against military, marriage, census and other public records.

At the time, the Compton bungalow complex was called the Zodiac Motel, a fact Baber discovered by using AI to unearth a newspaper ad. He thinks it inspired the name the Bay Area killer called himself.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did the killer name himself? I thought that usually wasn't the case.

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 months ago
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Baber used artifical intelligence and generated a list of 71 million possible 13-letter names

So now making a special-purpose rainbow table is AI now, too? Or was he too ignorant to know how to do that without resorting to AI?

a fact Baber discovered by using AI to unearth a newspaper ad

AI like Google?

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Depends on whether the ad was "unearthed" or "hallucinated".

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No way to know for sure but the article makes the theory sound somewhat persuasive.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

If 3 separate NSA cryptographers agree it’s a feasible solution then I’m inclined to accept that. Especially since one of them independently discovered it meant the encryption key was “Elizabeth”.

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.zip -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's the perfect case for it imo. Ingestion is best done by something efficient, like a scheduler. Use the tool properly and there's nothing wrong with it. Build it ethically and legally and it's a boon for mankind. Don't blame "AI" for the abomination capitalists have created.

[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, nobody’s buying your ethical AI bullshit

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Good because it's a myth.