Yup. I wouldn't put it past the average person to see this and be happy. It hits the feel goods and for people who aren't already attuned to digital privacy concerns they likely aren't going to extrapolate the end game.

Privacy has always been a slippery slope issue which makes it very difficult to explain to people without sounding like a conspiracy theorist. Only when it's too late and people are negatively impacted does it become obvious, and by then it's too late.

Another area that isn't getting enough attention is Amazon Sidewalk. They're actively building out a network so these devices can share information (albeit limited) with each other even if you deny them internet access. Again, the tech is cool, but the possibilities are concerning.

As a kid I used to love tech and I remember reading CES coverage with anticipation and wonder. When Google Glass was demo'd I thought it was the coolest thing. Now there's no way I'd voluntarily put AR glasses that weren't FOSS on my face.

This is 100% the experience I have had. Could not vibe harder with this.

Most of the time people have paid a premium for their new watch, camera, door bell, service and you try to point out that it connecting to the cloud or AI is overly complicated and not required for the result they are so happy about. You go on to say that the company is probably selling, exploiting and using that data to minipulating you..... But you just come off as unhinged.

There is nothing good about america atm the only benifit is that there are some really good examples of why "I've got nothing to hide" is deeply flawed. This helps cut through to normal people.

It's been real for a long time now, this is how ring works. You have to manually turn this stuff off and no one does.

There are some informative videos on this spy network.

it's more peculiar than that: the ring cameras were installed over a month ago, but neither tenants have moved in yet and they both clearly have money since they've both had their apartment renovated by professionals instead of the landlord's maintenance guys.

i'm guessing that these apartments are just their "city home" and i doubt that they will take kindly to a poor telling them how to live.

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.

wardrobe

did you mean war drive? are people still war driving?

I did, but that's hilarious so I'm gonna keep it.

I commute and travel a good amount, it gives be something interesting to do 🤷‍♂️

The “If I’ve got nothing to hide, why should I care” argument has predictably aged like sour milk.

has it? the kind of critical thought that easily dispels this fallacy isn't being applied right now on a global scale as evidenced by the fact that people are blaming russia for the epstein illuminati ring.