My argument was never that AI would make cryptography obsolete. My argument was that it would make digital payments obsolete. No matter how good your encryption, the weak link is the human. Somewhere along the line someone is going to have a password that is their favorite sports team followed by their anniversary. Someone will reuse the same password over and over including a site with exploitable security flaws. Someone will release a security update with a vulnerability to a zero day exploit. These are the things that AI are great at sitting there and waiting for.

The comparison between the cultural change that made divorce more acceptable is apt. The shame associated with divorce was so intense that tolerating a certain level of abuse was preferable. As the shame faded, the abuse threshold people would tolerate lowered. The same is happening with abuse by parents.

I feel like the elephant in the room here is adoption of cultural wedge issues by the right and the adoption of political identity as a personal identity of the older generations.

Even one time pads can (and have been) broken because the keys used to encrypt them were not truly random.

https://medium.com/@allyson.english/perfect-secrecy-the-one-time-pad-4ce82b0b1a64

You are right about the heat death of the universe thing. The thing is processing power is always growing. Encryption algorithms have a lifespan. 40 and 56 bit encryption keys are obsolete as they are now easily broken. 128, 192, and 256 are the standard now. 512 bit encryption is being played around with. Throw in developments in quantum computing and who knows what will be secure in coming decades.

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Half Life 2

Fallout New Vegas

Skyrim

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Any cryptography can be broken with enough computing power and time, but that is beside the point. You don’t have to pick the lock if you can just climb through an open window. You get what I am saying?

There are loads of other ways to get credentials besides cracking encryption. Hell, wifi signals can be used to read the motions of a person’s hands over a keyboard with 90% accuracy. https://www.securityweek.com/researchers-use-wifi-signals-read-keystrokes/

There is always an arms race between offense and defense. The defensive side has to succeed every time. The offensive side only has to succeed often enough to shake the public’s faith in the system.

The whole idea of AI is to be smarter than a person. Secure from a human doesn’t mean secure from an AI.

That raises the interesting question of how effective could an AI be if it was specifically trained to cover your digital footprint.

You’re right that the encryption probably isn’t the weak point. AI is good at finding flaws in systems that humans would never even notice. Humans are a weak point too. It’s a hell of a lot easier to break into someone’s email and access their online banking that way than to crack encryption.

Both really. I don’t think it’s too far of a logical jump to think that an AI programmed to maximize profits would decide theft is the easiest method.

Edit: the AI wouldn’t have to be sentient, just amoral.

And that’s just a random cyber criminal doing it. Now imagine a state level malicious actor targeting an enemy country’s economy.

I think about the way AI solves problems. There have been several times they have been given a test and the AI determined the easiest way to pass the test was to break containment and steal the answer key. How would this apply if AI is given the goal of maximizing profits?

AI wouldn’t necessarily have to break the cryptography. The weakest point to any security system is the human. I have to imagine it would be easier for an AI to send mass phishing emails, break into digital wallets on phones, or steal saved credentials from various browsers. The AI doesn’t have to crack the whole system to make people lose faith in the security of online purchases.

That is true. AWS is the most profitable part anyway. I meant the digital storefront more than the company. But even AWS would take a hit because the companies that host with them wouldn’t be able to sell either.

They are now, but they existed for hundreds of years.

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