Literally none of the factual things you just claimed are true. You have like eight components missing from your world model and that’s affecting your ability to understand the current computer security landscape. Zerodium and Raytheon and etc. exist and have kept the major government entities in stock of whatever bugs they need for decades now. It’s not an arms race—one side has been beating the other side into the curb for 15 fucking years. You need to figure out what’s missing from your perspective until it allocates sufficient probability mass for that fact. Here are three such things:
Two attackers can discover and use the same exploit at the same time. They’re not rivalrous goods. This is part of what makes these bugs so lucrative—Zerodium can sell them exclusively or to a number of groups. Only one easy to find bug has to exist for all of the existing agencies to break your security.
“Bank”s do not have to generally protect themselves from the kinds of people who 0day developers sell their products to, because nation states do not target their bottom line. Their primary concern is to protect themselves from the one in hundred computer hackers around the globe who is a criminal or links up with 1-5 other criminal computer hackers. Those criminals have to deal with severe coordination problems and do crime mainly because they’re not smart enough to develop weaponizations for said intelligence agencies, which is much more lucrative. If banks & technology companies had to protect themselves from Raytheon’s 0day developers the world would look way different than it currently does. Likewise, banks also do not currently protect themselves from superintelligent AIs because they do not currently exist.
Increased demand for or production of zero day vulnerabilities does not produce increased demand for protection from zero day vulnerabilities. The NSA could start spending 10x as much as it currently does on such weaponizations and it would not induce Apple to spend any more than they currently do because the NSA being in possession of a zero-click bug for iMessage does not affect their bottom line.
And literally ALL of that being false wouldn’t mean that DeepMind wouldn’t be able to make an AI mildly better than the other AIs or existing computer hackers at developing a 0day it could use to hijack a couple servers. This objection to a new SOTA AI being able to do this is complete nonsense. Come to think of it I bet I could make a SOTA AI able to grab you a few AWS keys.
Literally none of the factual things you just claimed are true. You have like eight components missing from your world model and that’s affecting your ability to understand the current computer security landscape. Zerodium and Raytheon and etc. exist and have kept the major government entities in stock of whatever bugs they need for decades now. It’s not an arms race—one side has been beating the other side into the curb for 15 fucking years. You need to figure out what’s missing from your perspective until it allocates sufficient probability mass for that fact. Here are three such things:
Two attackers can discover and use the same exploit at the same time. They’re not rivalrous goods. This is part of what makes these bugs so lucrative—Zerodium can sell them exclusively or to a number of groups. Only one easy to find bug has to exist for all of the existing agencies to break your security.
“Bank”s do not have to generally protect themselves from the kinds of people who 0day developers sell their products to, because nation states do not target their bottom line. Their primary concern is to protect themselves from the one in hundred computer hackers around the globe who is a criminal or links up with 1-5 other criminal computer hackers. Those criminals have to deal with severe coordination problems and do crime mainly because they’re not smart enough to develop weaponizations for said intelligence agencies, which is much more lucrative. If banks & technology companies had to protect themselves from Raytheon’s 0day developers the world would look way different than it currently does. Likewise, banks also do not currently protect themselves from superintelligent AIs because they do not currently exist.
Increased demand for or production of zero day vulnerabilities does not produce increased demand for protection from zero day vulnerabilities. The NSA could start spending 10x as much as it currently does on such weaponizations and it would not induce Apple to spend any more than they currently do because the NSA being in possession of a zero-click bug for iMessage does not affect their bottom line.
And literally ALL of that being false wouldn’t mean that DeepMind wouldn’t be able to make an AI mildly better than the other AIs or existing computer hackers at developing a 0day it could use to hijack a couple servers. This objection to a new SOTA AI being able to do this is complete nonsense. Come to think of it I bet I could make a SOTA AI able to grab you a few AWS keys.