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Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare

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Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote
> Keithr0 <nothing.to.see@here.com.au> wrote
>> Computer Nerd Kev wrote

>>>  From OpenAI's statement:
>>> "Our review found no evidence of patient records being accessed.
>>>   The information accessed included aggregate health statistics
>>>   and internal file names."

>>> "We notified the organisations and are providing technical
>>>   information to support their investigations and help address
>>>   potential security vulnerabilities"
>>> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/ai-agent-accessed-australian-government-site-pm-says/107189078

>>> "The government on Thursday launched a taskforce to investigate and
>>>   assess gaps in Australia's existing laws around reporting
>>>   requirements, enforcement, and cyber protections.

>>>   It is also investigating if the OpenAI incident broke any
>>>   Australian laws, though government sources said the initial view
>>>   was that this was unlikely."
>>> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-25/openai-breach-builds-case-for-tough-ai-rules/107192992

>>> Sounds like the AI just guessed some URLs that aren't linked from
>>> public pages, and got to see pages and directories that were really
>>> public in a technical sense anyway (not password protected by the
>>> server software).

>>> In that case it's not really a hack at all - just incompetent
>>> configuration of the website which a human attacker would have
>>> easily found too if they saw a real motive to work on something as
>>> boring as a statistics "portal".

>>> No surprise the government is covering up this incompetance, which
>>> OpenAI highlighted to them, by beating their chest about the new
>>> powers of AI and boasting new regulations that are likely to be as
>>> weak as their websites.

>> The point is that the "AI" was not supposed to go beyond publicly
>> available information, but decided of it's own accord to do so.

>> Similarly when it hacked into Hugging Face.

> Regarding  "Hugging Face" AI

> The threat is a combination of careless human design and unpredictable
> AI behavior.

> Human operators create the vulnerabilities by rushing development or
> failing to secure their code, but advanced AI has reached a point
> where it can autonomously exploit those human mistakes in ways the
> creators never anticipated or intended.

> So this again the Genie is out of the bottle,

Nope, perfectly possible to fix the deficiencys
and stop AI hacking other AIs

> whining about it is not
> going to change this aspect from happening from/by countries that have
> bad intentions .

No different to humans doing it

>  My interest is this fool Albanese. trying to cover up his continuing
> idiocy.

The only idiocy is yours

> In UN with a massive audience of 14 people, claims he is worried about
> AI, he is not he hates social media showing deserved Albanese disgust
> <https://x.com/roberts_pa97578>
> just a quick look straight away]

Just because some fool claims something...

> Albanese fled Australia

Just another of your pathetic little drug crazed drunken fantsys

> when he read his latest achievement
> (Destroying a construction company by CGT)!
> <https://www.news24.com.au/business/real-estate/major-real-estate-business-bathla-falls-into-administration-owing-lenders-more-than-3-billion/news-story/7c47300d649f32ffc8bb042f1ef657f6>
>      https://tinyurl.com/jtxsxa8d

Nothing to do with Albo, those fucking indians fucked up

> Major real estate business Bathla falls into administration owing
> lenders more than $3 billion

Because those fucking indians fucked up


> The explicit government assurances
> Labor repeatedly and publicly promised no changes to capital gains tax
> (CGT) settings or negative gearing:

> Albanese Labor
> “We have no plans to touch or change negative gearing.”

> Before and during the 2025 election, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
> ruled it out multiple times (famously answering “Yes. How hard is it?
> For the 50th time” when asked to confirm no changes if re-elected).
> Treasurer Jim Chalmers similarly stated the government was not
> considering or working on changes to either policy.

> This was presented as providing certainty after earlier Labor
> platforms (e.g. 2019) had proposed reforms.

> These were clear election commitments. Industry participants,
> including large-volume developers like Bathla, operated on that basis.
> The reversal and the “trap”

> In the May 2026 Budget the government broke those commitments,
> announcing:

> Replacement of the 50% CGT discount with cost-base indexation plus a
> 30% minimum tax (from July 2027).

> Negative gearing limited to new builds (with grandfathering for
> existing holdings).

That sentance mangles the actual change

> Bathla itself named “impacts from the changes made in the federal
> government’s May budget” as one element of the “perfect storm” that
> hit sales, confidence, and cash flow.

Just more indian bullshit

> The policy shift reduced the attractiveness of established property
> investment,

Bullshit when negative gearing is still fine
for existing propery you keep owning

> contributed to softer buyer demand,

Nothing to do with what collapsed Bathla

> and added uncertainty
> precisely when the company was heavily leveraged and absorbing higher
> construction costs.

Because the contracts stupidly didn't allow for inflation

> The sequence matched a prolonged period of strong price growth and
> supply shortage encouraged aggressive expansion (“making hay while the
> sun shines”) under explicit policy stability assurances, only for the
> sudden change in tax settings to help trigger the market softening
> that exposed the high-debt model.

> Other factors remained critical — the sheer scale of private-credit
> debt (~$3.4 billion),

  That was in fact the real problem

> rising costs the group absorbed, and operational
> issues

Because those fucking indians fucked up;
just like the fucking indian fucked up Wyhalla

> But the broken promise on CGT/negative gearing was a material
> contribution

Bullshit

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OpenAI hacks Medicare Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2026-09-24 03:30 +0200
  Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-09-25 08:57 +1000
    Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-09-25 09:27 +1000
    Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare Keithr0 <nothing.to.see@here.com.au> - 2026-09-25 17:54 +1000
      Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-09-25 19:22 +1000
        Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare Keithr0 <nothing.to.see@here.com.au> - 2026-09-25 22:10 +1000
          Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 02:28 +1000
      Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 07:28 +1000
        Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 08:28 +1000
      Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2026-09-26 17:50 +1000
        Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 19:15 +1000
    Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> - 2026-09-28 06:50 +1000
      Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2026-09-29 08:58 +1000

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