re: Silicon Valley Season 3!!!

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It was because a hacker was systematically having USB sticks dropped in the parking lots. At some point, someone picked one up. Thought to themselves, "ohh sweet, a free USB stick.....i wonder what's on it." Then proceeded to plug it into their company laptop. Heck, not sure on the details but it may have been a datacenter employee, who plugged it into one of our servers. Caused a huge meltdown for us, entire data center had to be wiped and rebuilt from scratch.


They used this method in Mr. Robot when Darlene was helping to hack the prison. I was watching at the time thinking it was a genius idea.

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The first instance of this that I've heard of is even worse. Someone at the CIA came up with the idea of testing how careful people were with security and the application of common sense.

Solution? Drop some sticks in the parking lot and see how many employees just pick it up and plug it into their secure work computers (probably with the idea of locating who it belongs to). The answer was depressing. A lot of people do this without stopping to think first.

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He either sold them to Laurie or he made a business deal ala marketing and commercial application with her.

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Maybe Erlich parlayed the "box" and future profits from it and took a loan against it, and PP will have to put out the box, Lori would do it bc it was basically guaranteed income.

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His point wasn't that apps don't fail. His point was that the beta test was unrealistic, and they wouldn't be allowed to release with such an incomplete test. Sure, it's a television show, but the subject was realism.

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Thank you Peazy.

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Solution? Drop some sticks in the parking lot and see how many employees just pick it up and plug it into their secure work computers (probably with the idea of locating who it belongs to). The answer was depressing. A lot of people do this without stopping to think first.

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Ever since the incident I previously spoke of, my company will have USB sticks dropped in parking lots, fake spam emails, and random people attempt to tailgate you thru security checkpoints. If you suspect it's some type of scam or phishing attempt, you must report it immediately. If you fail, it gets reported to management and you take an 4 hour online security training. It also stays on your inner company resume.

I'd like to tell you it's only non-IT people who fail every year (HR, business, scientists, engineers), but I'm always surprised when the yearly report comes out how many IT personel fail every year. Blows my mind, but I understand why they continuously train us to prevent these things.

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Google also released an AI twitter account that basically was supposed to learn what people liked and disliked and then start tweeting out what people like. It took two days for it to just start tweeting out racist, sexist, and anti semitic shite

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Are you talking about the Microsoft one?

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Yeah, I think he meant Tay which I referenced.

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That is one of the funniest things to ever happen. It took less than 36 hours for the internet to turn a simple little learning algorithm into a psychotic racist.

Once AI is given birth, it'll kill everyone.

Just realized last night watching Knocked Up that the bearded guy is Gilfoyle

I guess I'm late on knowing

Hey Erlich, this is your mother calling.You're not my son.

Errric Bachman, is your refrigerator running? This is Mike Hunt.

Jian Yang is hilarious

No bump yet this week? Pretty solid episode. I guess they had to figure out a way to keep Erlich in the show. Seeing Gavin on the roof was funny. I guess they needed to finally have some success.

Tonight's episode was probably my favorite of the season.

I about lost it when what's his name said, "what are we doing here" and him and Gavin exchange chat names to play chess while they fly on two dofferent jets to the same place lol.