[FRIAM] Agentscript steganography for distributing model code with an image (was Re: ... --- ...)

[Steve Smith]

SG -

I think you are just *asking* for a Snow Crash 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash> scenario...  like jokesters 
on TV/podcasts who utter "Alexa .... <something disruptive>" on air 
knowing many folks will have an Alexa device listening and have to 
contend with their device(s) executing the command.   With the 
Spotify/Rogan/Young spat of late, that seems like an obvious 
battleground for such nonsense. "Alexa - remove Spotify from your skills 
list"   "Alexa - block Joe Rogan Podcasts on all channels" "Alexa - play 
Neil Young songs which pay him royalties"  or the 
contrapositive/inverse/converse if you prefer.

I like that you are seeking a proper term for a parallel to the 
beneficial human biome.   Computer systems, with time-sharing and 
services/daemons running already give me the sense of a biome. The fact 
that worms and viruses and such have become such a commonplace problem 
(rather than simply un/known exploits) suggests that our digital 
ecologies are already hosting a complex (if somewhat nascent) biome... 
on and amongst our computers/phones/etc.   These were not things we had 
to think much about when computing meant feeding in card decks, paper 
tape, or even magnetic tape to load/run *A* Program.

I will have to think more about the analogy between your StegEmbeddedAS 
trick and how real viruses work... it seems pretty darned close!

- SS

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>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 11:23 AM glen <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Shirley you could finagle this into some malware or some
>     miningware (aka "citizen science") so that the image was
>     automatically executed by an injected browser add-on.
>
>
>
> Yes, we do have chrome extension that could look for code in any image 
> in your browser. We're trying to design a network to deploy BuenWare - 
> is there a better prefix for virally good software that benefits your 
> digital metabolism and connection to the earth?
>
> We're currently using the extension to be a persistent compute and 
> storage node on our "acequia" p2p network. It can also screen share 
> and open the web camera on phone or desktop. Of course, the trick to 
> all of this is transparency and creating a "sousveillant" network vs a 
> surveillant. Ala Brin's "Transparent Society" book.
>
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