This x 100. The news is being reported, but so many of us just digest what the aggregators and algorithms decide is most relevant - it saves a ton of time. Today's readers need to be curious to be well-informed.
CEO of Hala here. What I think needs reiterating is that the tools to do what you fear are already available and employed by the highly advantaged attacker (regardless of who it is). One of our primary missions is to actually give defensive tools to people who currently lack adequate means to defend themselves.
I think that’s a very fair argument and you / your company should be commended for what you’re doing.
Really the criticism I have is of Wired magazine’s article, and not even the article so much as their promotion. On twitter and other places, you’ll see stuff from them like “how AI is preventing bombing raids”. That kind of attitude to generate readership I find recklessness and dangerous.