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“they who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
Yes I know the issues with the founding father narrative. However, I think that this quote is very true and applies to the situation we are currently facing.
anyone who objects to mass surveillance obviously hates puppies
You got me, but actually I mostly want the christian families and their children to be sad
Ted Kazcynski had somewhat of a point - I say somewhat because he was a leftist hater and I think a bit off the rails. Technology is already way out of control, I don't think most people understand that if there were to be a socialist revolution in a 1st world country any time soon, just how much of an advantage the state has over the people due to it's surveillance network. Privacy for all intents and purposes is practically gone already if you're of interest to the intelligence agencies and around anything with a connection and/or even just standing outside thanks to satellite imagery. And that is just the technology which we know of, it's horrifying to think about the possibility of tech that remains classified.
I wonder how hard it would be to rework this advertisements to be what it's actually used for:
Wait is flock seriously now partnered with ring?
Has been since October
Gross, I had no clue. Now I might need to find replacements.
Ring was already "partnered" pretty closely with law enforcement, this is more of a consolidation than a new development. I've been saying this since they first floated the concept of CLOUD BASED SURVEILLANCE DOORBELLS but the whole idea is fucked. If you really feel a need for monitoring like that, set it up yourself. A corporation handling it is worse than nothing
Not might.
Have to.
The next step they'll take is hooking into the amber alert system to find missing kids. Then, it will be finding "criminals," which applies to basically everyone thanks to NPSM-7.
The "If I've got nothing to hide, why should I care" argument has predictably aged like sour milk.
They were hinting at its use for that in this ad by showing a young child right away.
The fun part is that they're already at the "criminals" stage and we have been for a while. The marketing team is just backing into it and manufacturing consent.
Yup, this is effective propaganda used to make people feel good about the devices.
SPRAYPAINT EVERY SINGLE ONE. CALL THEIR OWNERS OUT. DESTROY. THAT. SHIT.
(Writing this with a device in my hand with a front and several back cameras, super sensitive microphone, and internet acces)
Should've used GrapheneOS.
I think a strong laser straight to the CMOS chip is better since it can't just be cleaned off.
Ok but you can just rewrite this meme with your deauth packets on the left side and Wifi 6 on the right side.
So still effective right now. I wardrobe as a hobby when I get bored and there's very few APs ready for this. We've got a few years.
This is horrifying.
Should we buy ring nodes and feed them poisoned video feed?
Benn Jordan was recently doing work on poisoned audio files, making it so models are damaged by ingesting his music. I believe the same should be possible with video streams.
They probably won’t be training on the poisoned nodes, but they sure as hell will be wasting power on them. That makes it more expensive to do this stuff, no?
For me personally, I wouldn't consider it worth the risk. You still have to make an Amazon account, hand over your personal information, let their cameras onto your network (of course, you can VLAN them) and.. how many people are gonna do this to make it effective?
It just seems playing right into their hands, I'd rather outright boycott anything Amazon (I understand easier for some than others) than waste my time, money and effort into protecting my personal info against a user hostile company.
I agree, that’s the most practical approach and I wouldn’t blame anyone for choosing it. For me personally, though, I’m a little pissed off that these companies get to have such inhostile environment for their shenanigans. It’s like a playground for them, where they get to happily A|B test the various surveillance state softwares that will eventually get sold to oppressive regimes (just like Flock). I’m at a point where I’m willing to spend a not-so-insignificant portion of my time, energy, and know-how on inventing a little bit more friction for them. It shouldn’t be so easy for them to fuck us. They didn’t even offer dinner, first.
They're not only rolling out the total surveillance society- they are making people pay for it and subscribe to monthly fees for the privilege.
"since launch, more than a dog a day has been reunited with their family"
Yeah, because cats know how to evade the fascist state. All Cats Are Beautiful ...
400ish found out of 10 million is…incredibly pathetic, lol.
It's apparently enough justification to get people to consent to having their doorbell cams used for surveillance by 3rd parties 🫠