Anthropic Will Begin Sweeping Offices For Hidden Devices (cnbc.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/01/0226252/anthropic-will-begin-sweeping-offices-for-hidden-devices
- Source link: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/31/anthropic-begin-sweeping-offices-for-hidden-devices-amps-up-security.html
> The company, backed by Amazon and Google, published safety and security updates in a blog post on Monday, and said it also plans to establish an executive risk council and build an in-house security team. Anthropic closed its latest funding round earlier this month at a $61.5 billion valuation, which makes it one of the highest-valued AI startups.
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> In addition to high-growth startups, tech giants including Google, Amazon and Microsoft are racing to announce new products and features. Competition is also coming from China, a risk that became more evident earlier this year when DeepSeek's AI model went viral in the U.S. Anthropic said in the post that it will introduce "physical" safety processes, such as technical surveillance countermeasures -- or the process of finding and identifying surveillance devices that are used to spy on organizations. The sweeps will be conducted "using advanced detection equipment and techniques" and will look for "intruders."
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Ridiculous, really. (Score:3)
Lacking sales and a perspective, the "AI" crap peddlers are coming up with creative ways to show they are a "serious business".
Re: (Score:2)
Your view is absurd. You don't need to have a good product, just a good valuation in a market where other people are trying to get that valuation to be at risk. It's kind of like how being poor doesn't mean you are somehow immune to being robbed, you just have to be perceived as having something that someone else wants to be at risk.
Their fantasy valuation alone makes them serious business for other people peddling that fantasy.
Complete circus here (Score:3)
This'll be a three-ring circus with two clown cars. Start with every employee's cel phone, and any smart watch they may be wearing. Add in any tablets or tablet-like devices they may bring in (think the reMarkable). Then add in the havoc as they find every legitimate device on their network whose MAC address isn't known (like anything that uses MAC address privacy). After that, then they get to the fun of finding anything transmitting a radio signal in a building chock full of devices that use Wifi and Bluetooth.
ESP32 microcontroller glued to a battery (Score:2)
I'm looking forward to seeing the ESP32 microcontrollers glued to a battery and dropped behind a wall via power outlet, network outlet, light switch, etc. Maybe hang them via an antenna?
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> This'll be a three-ring circus with two clown cars. Start with every employee's cel phone, and any smart watch they may be wearing. Add in any tablets or tablet-like devices they may bring in (think the reMarkable). Then add in the havoc as they find every legitimate device on their network whose MAC address isn't known (like anything that uses MAC address privacy). After that, then they get to the fun of finding anything transmitting a radio signal in a building chock full of devices that use Wifi and Bluetooth.
With that kind of effort, you’re not hiring “employees”.
You’re more hiring suspects.
Never Harder to do (Score:2)
I have seen security consultants buckle under unscrewing every power outlet to look behind. That was before even the humble led light globe has multiple chips, or should we say transistor junction. anti shoplifting tags are on lots of innocent purchases. Maybe someone has super miniature valves - that do not respond to semiconductor excitement. Forget Maxwell Smart and phone in a shoe, now you can get one to fit in chewing gum or the lip of a paper coffee cup. Credit cards will also set them off. Try buyin
A new detector was deployed, must be removed (Score:3)
It turns out someone or organization had deployed the Stupidity Detector 5000 throughout the company. Now the company has to go through and find all the hidden devices and destroy them.
Meanwhile the are being hacked thru computers (Score:2)
Meanwhile the are being hacked thru their computers....... Hackers gain more info this way. Overlook the obvious - strengthen computer security.
Intruder alert (Score:2)
The humanoid must not escape.