Jamesbeam (u/Jamesbeam)

Jamesbeam commented on Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy aaronmate.net/p/noam-chom... · Posted by u/Red_Tarsius

sheikhnbake · a day ago

If I end up in the massive email history of one of the most vile men in US history, please flush me down the toilet assuming I haven't already heavily invested in the Remington retirement plan

Jamesbeam · a day ago

Sorry sheikh, busy opening windows in Moscow.

Best I can do is drown you in a bathroom sink around February 2029, not getting dirty toilet water on my good shoes again.

/s

Jamesbeam commented on War Department Cuts Ties with Harvard University war.gov/News/News-Stories... · Posted by u/geox

Jamesbeam · 2 days ago

Keep fighting Harvard. Pete Hegseth is so embarrassing.

I feel sorry for all American soldiers serving their country right now and that whole room full of generals he held his Ted talk to who looked as embarrassed as I feel right now.

He talks about the warrior class, but he allowed that US soldiers roll out the red carpet for Putin kneeling in the dirt, while putins bodyguards where laughing their ass off that US soldiers were crouching over the ground for them, so the commander in chief could impress the worlds greatest war criminal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpUJK_yIRHE

Make kneeling great again I guess.

He talks about the highest moral and fitness standards, but the commander in chief is adipose and has a button in his office to get a fresh BigMac and a fresh coke while spending his time posting ai slop and racist memes on his social media platform.

Americans are lucky that you have so many good men and women serving your country putting the safety and well being of their people as priority over themselves, because otherwise by now three quarter of your troops would have quit.

They could make more money in the private sector and not have to deal with the bullshit the secretary seems to come up with while finding the bottom of a whiskey bottle. Still they put up with it every day, out of duty. I have nothing but respect for everyone serving under Laurel and Hardy.

I hope history will look back favorably at those heroes and expose Hegseth and Trump for what they really are. An embarrassment for all military standards and values we established for the past century.

Nobody wants mindless killing machines, they want fully functional members of society who serve their country and then go back to having a family and a well paying day job that is making a difference in the lives of others.

Jamesbeam commented on Please stop using OpenClaw, formerly known as Moltbot xda-developers.com/please... · Posted by u/bandrami

koolala · 3 days ago

Are there really examples of this? Being criminally liable after someone hacks your computer just because you suck at security? Framing you is another story but that seems unnecessary when their in another country anyways.

Jamesbeam · 3 days ago

In Hamilton v. ACCU-TEK, 62 F. Supp. 2d 802 (E.D.N.Y. 1999), the court found that a general duty to avoid negligence is assumed.

The court in McCall v. Wilder, 913 S.W.3d 150, generally detailed these elements of negligence.

In Kubert v. Best, the New Jersey Appellate Division held that “the sender of a text message can potentially be liable if an accident is caused by texting, but only if the sender knew or had special reason to know that the recipient would view the text while driving and thus be distracted."

In https://via.library.depaul.edu/law-review/vol49/iss2/12/ Robert Rabin has provided a categorization of cases decided primarily under common law reasoning that is helpful here.

Referring to what he terms “enabling torts,” Professor Rabin identifies a number of cases in which courts have held defendants liable even when unconnected third parties have actively caused harm to plaintiffs.

More modern recognition is that criminal acts are sometimes foreseeable, and where specific circumstances reflect that foreseeability, it is not justifiable to cut off liability of the party who enabled the tortfeaso.

It is not that compromised system owners are directly causing injury to the targets, but rather that they are furnishing the attacker with the tools necessary to launch the attack.

So in case of Openclaw, there are multiple public articles like this one warning of the security implications using the software.

If you rent and run a server facing the open Internet and voluntarily install Openclaw, I think it’s fair to say that you are neglecting your duty to avoid negligence, and on top you’re likely contractually instructed to keep your own server safe in the user agreement with the hosting companies, otherwise you need to go with a managed product.

And you are obviously able to install and use a complex software like Openclaw to do things on your behalf. Therefore being negligent in securing the server opens up liability for whatever you or someone that hacks your server does.

For example, if you live in a neighborhood where maybe one car gets stolen a year and you leave your car unlocked with the key in the ignition to fetch something from your house, if someone steals your car and does a drive-by shooting with it you are most likely not liable.

If you’re a police officer and do the same thing in a crime ridden neighborhood and provide criminals with a tool to do crime, just to stop them afterwards or push your crime solving rate, you’re definitely liable for the death of someone they shoot out of that car.

It’s complicated, but yes, if you’re technically savvy and also read the fine print in your server rent agreement that tells you you need to take appropriate security measures so your server doesn’t harm others on the internet, I don’t see how a judge would let you off the hook. Similar common sense laws exist in most parts of the world.

Jamesbeam commented on Please stop using OpenClaw, formerly known as Moltbot xda-developers.com/please... · Posted by u/bandrami

andriesm · 4 days ago

It works very well on a cloud hosted Ubuntu server. You only put things there within lobster reach that would not destroy you if leaked.

You decide what to put with the lobster.

Jamesbeam · 4 days ago

All of this OpenClaw / Moltbot bullshit is annoying. But it’s comments like yours that are slowly giving me a stroke.

Just putting things on a cloud server that would not destroy your life if leaked, that is not how IT security works.

We designed security best practices for IT software for decades, this vibe coded wet dream of any North Korean hacker is throwing all of it over board.

It’s malware. Do not install malware.

The other part of the equation is people like you not understanding what running insecure software that allows for unnoticed access to your cloud hosted machine really means.

Once I have access to your cloud hosted Ubuntu server I have access to where, when and how you connect to that server.

I can then not just use your server to hide my own criminal activities and not give a shit if you go to jail for it because I used your server as a staging point for cybercrime activities and bounce off some other idiots Openclaw servers, I also have your home ip address.

Good luck explaining the FBI that a lobster was responsible for running a ransomware campaign against a company that deals with critical infrastructure and not you.

I pity those poor agents already because that will be part of their exhausting paperwork in the near future. AI did it sir, I swear. Doesn’t matter son, you better get your anus stretched and prepare for a ten year stay in a prison with real criminals that will greet you excitedly with a "fresh meat is on the menu boys".

From your home IP I can break into your router, or I don’t even need to because manipulating whatever you download from that server to your personal devices is likely enough to get access to the machine you connect from and probably your phone.

Suddenly your 2FA is no longer safe because I have access to both devices you use to authenticate everything from bank transfers to logins. And because I have access to your home network I can figure out from network activity alone when you sleep. I can destroy your whole life within the 4 to 8 hours you’re unconscious.

Once I’m in your router or personal pc I can then also scan for devices on your home network and put a persistent backdoor on one of the countless Chinese home appliances people use these days. Unless you burn your house down, you will never be able to get me out of it.

Once I have permanent access to your network I can watch you fap to heterotransgayporn over your camera and then blackmail you. I clone your voice, i take enough pictures or get them from your NAS to clone your face and steal your identity.

Maybe I open an account somewhere with videos of your wife undressing or the private photos on your daughters laptop and once your cloud server is burned, which I find out from the footage of heavily armed agents kicking in your door one morning, which I will also sell on the darknet for the amusement of others, I bleed you dry financially and disappear in the smoke.

You won’t need a lobster anymore to order your sneakers. You will never eat one again because you’re dead broke.

But you will turn the same color as one once you find out that I exposed everyone you love on the internet and made money from it and they will never be able to delete it from the internet again.

Congratulations, only putting things there within lobster reach that would not destroy you if leaked, basically killed your whole family.

I need to put it this drastically because that is how cybercriminals will put you and your family at risk irl without blinking an eye.

Companies lose millions every week because one of their senior employees fell victim to phishing attacks and then got blackmailed with compromising material of themselves. And those people all have the same in common. They think they are much smarter than they really are.

You thinking to "only put things there within lobsters reach that would not destroy you if leaked" puts you in the same group as any other idiot that have been hacked and their life’s ruined in the past.

Become smarter or a victim, your choice.

Jamesbeam commented on Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon washingtonpost.com/invest... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

shrubble · 6 days ago

The subject of the article signed his first and last name and was wondering how the officers tracked him down?

We don’t know his last name, but I think first and last name plus zip code is enough to uniquely identify a great many people.

Jamesbeam · 6 days ago

That’s not a subject.

His name is Jon and he seems to be a compassionate American citizen that cares for other people even if they are not having the same passport or skin color. Show some damn respect for the man, he is not a thing and has a name.

In return for a reasonable and simple plea, Jon got targeted by the government that is clearly overreaching in this case.

Everything Jon did was all protected under the First Amendment.

If you do this to an American citizen making use of his rights, you are no better than the guys the D-Boys blew up, shot, stabbed, drowned or ran over with an old Toyota every Friday in Iraq who gathered intel on Iraqi citizens in the shadows and then later were directly responsible for the capture and torture of them and their families, simply because they stood up against the terrorists that were treating their friends and neighbors like dogs.

Jamesbeam commented on Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down idiallo.com/blog/teaching... · Posted by u/firefoxd

Jamesbeam · 8 days ago

I think the biggest problem is, everyone basically living on their own these days instead of treating neighbors like a collective of individuals that can absolutely have life changing consequences for you, if you either get along with them very well or if you annoy each other.

We humans are not build to spend our lives in front of small or big screens. It makes people angry, sad, lonely and weird and sometimes they turn the tv up just so they can have someone come by and make them feel like someone recognizes they are existing, even if it’s just to complain that they are too loud.

If people like you, they will be more willing to go out of their way to not annoy you. It’s basic psychology.

In Aghanistan I could take my helmet and body armor off, sit down next to a teenager on a piece of rubble and share my chocolate bar with them and a good laugh, watching a few guys burn an American flag in sight without being afraid I will get shot or killed.

I fixed peoples kitchen sinks and made sure they could wash their babies in water that would not make them sick, I vaccinated their children from my bonus payments, I played soccer with their kids and treated them like human beings and in return they protected me from any harm while I was in their neighborhood.

If people in a war zone can be decent human beings to each other, why can’t we do the same in our, what we think is a more civilized, superior, society?

There is a ton of stuff you can do to get along with your neighbors that neither costs you extra time or money.

Say good day and good night with a genuine smile if you meet them. Help the elderly out carrying groceries if you’re already on your way up or down.

You have no idea how often people watch through their door spy what is happening in their house, they will see it and respect you for it, even if you don’t see them.

I am a stress baker, so instead of making cookies for my own, I make a whole rack and ask my direct neighbors in the evening if they could take some off my hands so I don’t get a sugar shock. What’s better than cookies after a shit day at work?

If the parcel dude asks me if I can take a package for someone while getting my own, sure thing. If you pick it up same day I will gladly do it again, if you don’t respect my time you can drive to the post office next time. Easy as that.

Need some sugar, eggs or some papers for your joint because your stoned ass is too lazy and you forgot to buy new ones every few months, sure thing enjoy your weed brownies or smoke dude.

I can easily just kill any neighbor that annoys me. But instead I choose to find out why they do stupid stuff. And then I fix it without much noise or help them to recognize themselves there is a solution to their problem.

It might be my military mindset but I swore an oath to serve the people and protect them and that doesn’t end with being a civilian now. I am not perfect and get angry and yell at people on the internet just like any other idiot on here, but I see my neighbors more often than I see my parents and I want to live in peace, and peace is something that requires cooperation.

Dont go to war with your neighbors, try to figure out why they do stuff and offer a solution for their problem if they can’t see it themselves for whatever reason. You’ll be a lot happier and healthier if you get along with the people living in the same house. Or you could fuck with their tv and eventually get shot in the face. It’s a choice.

Jamesbeam commented on Disgraced Crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Seeks Trump Pardon with Republican Pivot gizmodo.com/disgraced-cry... · Posted by u/pseudolus

xenospn · 8 days ago

How can he afford to lobby the president? Does he still have rich friends left?

Jamesbeam · 8 days ago

His parents are respected law professors at Stanford, they have access to lawyers that have the ear of the president and his inner circle.

Basically every white collar criminal is giving up their ass to get pardoned right now after he did so with Ulbricht.

On top of that, US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who oversaw the FTX founder’s trial and sentenced him to decades behind bars, also presided over the defamation and sexual assault lawsuits brought against Mr Trump by New York writer E. Jean Carroll.

I think there is a good chance he might pardon him after he and his parents sell their souls to the orange devil just to fuck with judge Kaplan.

Two Stanford law professors and their contacts in the bag plus a criminal "genius" expanding his crypto empire full time sounds like a good deal for me for a pardon.

Jamesbeam commented on Openclaw on Oracle's Free Tier: Always-On AI for $0/Month ryanshook.org/blog/posts/... · Posted by u/RyanShook

RyanShook · 9 days ago

Thanks for your feedback. You can run local models on the instance. https://medium.com/@viplav.fauzdar/running-multiple-open-sou...

Jamesbeam · 9 days ago

Technically, you can also put diesel in a regular gas car. Is that a good idea? Nope.

Don’t try to move the goalposts here.

If those local models with 4b params could do anything useful in the broader range of having a "personal ai assistant" (your words) then why use the 20$ Claude pro subscription and not the local models?

We both know the answer.

You wanted to provide a Tutorial for a 0$ instance "working ai assistant", that could actually do things like "check email, manage files, run scripts". According to your own words.

Now please prove it that you can run a useful ai assistant at 0$ with those local models.

Jamesbeam commented on US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

martinralbrecht · 9 days ago

WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption has been independently investigated: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/files/324396471/whatsapp.pdf

Full version here: https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/794.pdf

We didn't review the entire source code, only the cryptographic core. That said, the main issue we found was that the WhatsApp servers ultimately decide who is and isn't in a particular chat. Dan Goodin wrote about it here: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/whatsapp-provides-n...

Jamesbeam · 9 days ago

Hello Professor Albrecht,

thank you for your work.

I’ve been looking for this everywhere the past few days but I couldn’t find any official information relating the use of https://signal.org/docs/specifications/pqxdh/ in the signal protocol version that WhatsApp is currently using.

Do you have any information if the protocol version they currently use provides post-quantum forward secrecy and SPQR or are the current e2ee chats vulnerable to harvest now, decrypt later attacks?

Thanks for your time.