A Marco Rubio Impostor is Using AI Voice To Call High-Level Officials (msn.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/08/1537230/a-marco-rubio-impostor-is-using-ai-voice-to-call-high-level-officials
- Source link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/a-marco-rubio-impostor-is-using-ai-voice-to-call-high-level-officials/ar-AA1Ibuny
> U.S. authorities do not know who is behind the string of impersonation attempts but they believe the culprit was probably attempting to manipulate powerful government officials "with the goal of gaining access to information or accounts," according to a cable sent by Rubio's office to State Department employees.
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> Using both text messaging and the encrypted messaging app Signal, which the Trump administration uses extensively, the impostor "contacted at least five non-Department individuals, including three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor, and a U.S. member of Congress," said the cable, dated July 3. The impersonation campaign began in mid-June when the impostor created a Signal account using the display name "Marco.Rubio@state.gov" to contact unsuspecting foreign and domestic diplomats and politicians, said the cable.
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/a-marco-rubio-impostor-is-using-ai-voice-to-call-high-level-officials/ar-AA1Ibuny
Unregulated AI (Score:1)
Isn't it illegal to regulate AI for 10 years or something now?
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Only if a state tries to. Coming from the same crowd who are always yelling about "states rights".
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It was reduced [1]to five years [fastcompany.com]:
> Notably, Senate negotiations reduced the proposed moratorium from 10 years to five, and added exceptions for state rules that protect kids and copyrights, so long as the rules do not âoeunduly or disproportionately burdenâ AI systems and models.
[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/91360944/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-ai
just sayin (Score:4, Informative)
> Using both text messaging and the encrypted messaging app Signal, which the Trump administration uses extensively, the impostor "contacted at least five non-Department individuals...
They'd be safer using Hillary's email server.
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I find it hard to believe anyone could get hold of Susy Wiles' contacts list, given the rigorous OpSec multiple members of this administration have repeatedly shown. /s
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Its a nice cheap shot isn't it but points to a really serious issue our government has with communication. HRC did her thing Colin Powell is said to have done so as well. We have the current admin using Signal and probably other "Consumer" messaging apps, even if the cryptography on those is sound the identity management and that of the mobile and MVNO carriers they rely on for phone number control etc probably isnt at least not universally.
There is abundant evidence a lot of highly confidential matters a
presumption of guilt (Score:2, Insightful)
and just to be clear, they wouldn't be using these consumer apps if they weren't concerned about the legality of the content they are discussing. There are secure apps and messaging tools these officials are supposed to be using which get entered into a permanent record.
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and just to be clear, that is the argument the out of power group always makes whenever anyone gets caught using unofficial channels.
Meanwhile we have serious problems with leakers at all levels of government and House Intel committee members with Chinese spies on their staff.
If I were part of the current administration I would pretty little trust in the ability of the federal employees I have an antagonistic relationship with to not leak stuff to the press. We should all wonder if the intelligence committe
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I was actually thinking of
[1]https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfra... [cbsnews.com]
[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/details-chinese-spy-dianne-feinstein-san-francisco/
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> and just to be clear, that is the argument the out of power group always makes whenever anyone gets caught using unofficial channels.
I've been snarky in this thread so far; but I completely agree with this. It was bad when Clinton's group did it, and it's bad when Trump's team does it. We have strict security and public records requirements for a reason (for multiple reasons, actually).
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Powell and Rice are not "said to have done so," they are perfectly well known to have done so. There was no legal problem with it then. Hillary operated her own mail server at their suggestion. And there was no legal problem with her doing so at the time she started to either.
A suggestion that was not made out of malice, it was just one SecState telling the next "The government's official MX services are regularly a 50/50 shot at working, and we have communications that cannot fail to go through or be de
Susy Wiles (Score:2)
Sounds like they moved on almost immediately from Wiles to Rubio.
Chief of Staff, NatSec/State -- DoD should be next (Hegseth). Rattcliff might be more powerful but they probably don't want to cross CIA. Or the call is coming from inside the house.
[1]https://apnews.com/article/sus... [apnews.com]
[1] https://apnews.com/article/susie-wiles-phone-impersonation-bc6ac99e5db06ac70307ca031ab8d647
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Hegseth leaks enough classified info all by himself.
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The one thing we DO know - it's not Russia. Thank heavens THAT threat is now gone!
Does the AI (Score:2)
...also wear artificial boots with high heels? For the sake of authenticity, it must! [1]https://www.gq.com/story/marco... [gq.com]
[1] https://www.gq.com/story/marco-rubio-boots-heels-florsheim
They mimicked his writing style? (Score:2)
I didn't think AI could use crayons...
It's funny because the people responsible for keeping all of us alive are completely incompetent Yes Men...
Serious note, using crayons (Score:1)
> I didn't think AI could use crayons...
There's very likely enough child- an child-like drawing around to make a decent training set for an AI that could fool people into thinking a child did it.
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Yeah, I know you were trying to slam Rubio, but I'm redirecting this thread back to something a bit more technical.
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> I didn't think AI could use crayons...
... or eat them, for that matter.
Reminder, and honesty test (Score:2)
Late in the Biden administration, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) [1]recommended [bleepingcomputer.com] all high level federal government officials "Adopt a free messaging application for secure communications that guarantees end-to-end encryption, such as Signal or similar apps." [2]Here is the PDF [cisa.gov] on CISA's own site. The fact that this was done so late in the Biden admin, combined with [3]CISA's role in censoring conservative voices on the internet [supremecourt.gov] over the preceding years, made this order very suspicious to
[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-urges-switch-to-signal-like-encrypted-messaging-apps-after-telecom-hacks/
[2] https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/guidance-mobile-communications-best-practices.pdf
[3] https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-411/300197/20240208220913623_44722%20pdf%20Candeub.pdf
Fraud is normal (Score:2)
From the linked article
"You just need 15 to 20 seconds of audio of the person, which is easy in Marco Rubio’s case. You upload it to any number of services, click a button that says ‘I have permission to use this person’s voice,’ and then you type what you want him to say,” said Farid. “Leaving voicemails is particularly effective because it’s not interactive."
Fraud is fine. It's legal actually. It's what AI is for. It's una-Murrican to s
Ya, but ... (Score:2)
Is this guy doing a better job than Rubio? I can't imagine him doing worse...
Trump setup (Score:2)
to blame a hacker impersonating him when the shit hits the fan.
Re:Trump setup (Score:5, Insightful)
What shit hitting the fan? Are you implying a republican would ever get into trouble in this administration?
Don't fuck with the money (Score:4, Insightful)
There's a guy named George Santos in jail right now because he fucked with the money. He went to Mitch McConnell's money people and tried to trick them into giving him money. He fucked with the money and now he's in jail.
You can rip off as many little old ladies as you want you can kill as many campers in Texas as you want you can burn down the entire state of Utah if you want but you do not fuck with the money.
Also like any good mob you're only as good as your last envelope.
Re:Trump setup (Score:4, Funny)
The fan is bogged down and buried in shit, and now the motor is smoking.
Re:Trump setup (Score:4, Interesting)
> to blame a hacker impersonating him when the shit hits the fan.
Trump could literally rape five year olds on national television while strangling their mothers and people would excuse him for it at this point. Probably make up some bullshit story about how his actions were saving us from some dire plot against his excellency or some bullshit. There is nothing, and I mean *NOTHING* that he'll ever be held accountable for, so there's no need to give him 5D chess credit on this story. It's just someone with the tools playing with fire because they can.
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U-S-A!!!U-S-A!!!U-S-A!!!
Re:Trump setup (Score:4, Insightful)
No, they'd probably blame Joe Biden - or Hunter's laptop.
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> No, they'd probably blame Joe Biden - or Hunter's laptop.
Or, "Thanks, Obama."
Re:Trump setup (Score:5, Insightful)
Maybe the right-wing bots are busy elsewhere. And /. should have a general lean to the left. It's a site for smart people, who tend to be reasonable, and not unhinged, gratuitous, hateful assholes on social topics.
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> It's a site for smart people, who tend to be reasonable, and not unhinged, gratuitous, hateful assholes on social topics.
I used to think that, before I found Slashdot.
The hardcore reich wingers were always here, they were just not quite so loud.
The current management will do nothing to rein them in, even if they disagreed with them which they probably don't since they're cryptobros which usually means they're libertarians, and also think they're the smartest guys in the room because they jumped on a scam early.
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> Maybe the right-wing bots are busy elsewhere.
They're desperately avoiding the phrase "told you so".
Re: Trump setup (Score:2)
By TDS you mean they aren't idiots just covering for Dear Leader and his parade of stupid, selfish, and corrupt actions.
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Welcome to Nazi America: If you are a sane, basically decent human being who has a problem with the government opening a motherfucking concentration camp, the Nazis will call you "deranged" while they cheer on the destruction of everything that actually made America great.