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the few that do use bluetooth to adjust settings.

That may be the intended use, but it does not imply the system is secure.

Here’s an example of an insulin pump vulnerability from a few years ago that enabled attacks from up to six meters away. Think about how many potentially-compromised devices you’re ever within six meters of. The vulnerability enabled remote control over the insulin pump, which IIUC can be deadly.

https://www.aha.org/h-isac-reports/2021-11-29-h-isac-tlp-white-vulnerability-report-researchers-identify-high-severity

My point being — it’s not a good thing to be in the midst of a hacking epidemic! Real people will be harmed as a result of increased hacking.

But it’s also not a bad thing

Say that to the folks with implanted medical devices

Or maybe it’s just a reaally slow exponential backoff

I think the phrase “running in the TEE” is the idiomatic way to describe a program running on the main CPU, attested by the TEE processor, and protected/isolated from other processes on the system (modulo exploits, lol). I’m vaguely familiar with AMD’s SEV-SNP, mainly from reading security papers rather than any hands-on experience. I make no claims about Apple’s Secure Enclave, though.

I haven’t fact-checked this, but the TEE could protect GPU memory in addition to main memory. Apple attests that the correct binary is running in the TEE, et voila.

This can’t possibly be acceptable from a privacy perspective

Edit: Was wrong. They actually have a plausible privacy story. Inference happens in the local machine’s Trusted Execution Environment. https://www.eigenlabs.org/blog/project-darkbloom-unlocking-idle-compute-for-ai/

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I thought you couldn’t be right. Whelp.

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