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sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “MYSTERY BEEP FUCKING SOLVED”
I have interconnected smoke detectors but when it comes to Nest-type devices I become a goddamn Luddite. I do not need my house to be hackable.
deputychairman replied to your post “MYSTERY BEEP FUCKING SOLVED”
All ‘smart’ appliances are terrifying and I can only assume the people who install them have never seen a single movie or TV show or even read a fucking book because SURELY we know how this ends????
I just… people sort of assume there’s a law or something protecting them, and there’s… not, there’s flimsy case precedent. I know there was a recent case where the prosecution tried to subpoena Alexa, and in the end they didn’t need to, because the smart hot tub had registered that two people had entered it, and the murderer’s alibi couldn’t stand up against that. So they didn’t need to ask Alexa– who had witnessed the murder, but whose contents were encrypted.
And on the one hand, like, he murdered somebody, he should go to jail. Fair enough.
But on the other hand, the fucking FBI was sending MLK notes telling him to kill himself, what do you think the current incarnation of that venerable institution, heroic bastion of law and order against a lawless rulership though they may be, would do with the ability to use activists’ own devices to surveil them, court precedent or no???
You may say you’ve got nothing to hide, but do you really want the asshole who doxxed you for saying free speech doesn’t protect someone from the consequences of bigoted behavior to know whether you fuck with the lights on and also to have access to your goddamn window shades regardless of whether you’re at home???
And yet. And yet! Despite being a software engineer and generally against most cutting-edge gizmos, Dude really really wanted a Nest thermostat and was only defeated by our wiring, which is made of like, braided threads set in wooden conduits. (Not quite, but close.)
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sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “MYSTERY BEEP FUCKING SOLVED”
I have interconnected smoke detectors but when it comes to Nest-type devices I become a goddamn Luddite. I do not need my house to be hackable.
deputychairman replied to your post “MYSTERY BEEP FUCKING SOLVED”
All ‘smart’ appliances are terrifying and I can only assume the people who install them have never seen a single movie or TV show or even read a fucking book because SURELY we know how this ends????
I just… people sort of assume there’s a law or something protecting them, and there’s… not, there’s flimsy case precedent. I know there was a recent case where the prosecution tried to subpoena Alexa, and in the end they didn’t need to, because the smart hot tub had registered that two people had entered it, and the murderer’s alibi couldn’t stand up against that. So they didn’t need to ask Alexa– who had witnessed the murder, but whose contents were encrypted.
And on the one hand, like, he murdered somebody, he should go to jail. Fair enough.
But on the other hand, the fucking FBI was sending MLK notes telling him to kill himself, what do you think the current incarnation of that venerable institution, heroic bastion of law and order against a lawless rulership though they may be, would do with the ability to use activists’ own devices to surveil them, court precedent or no???
You may say you’ve got nothing to hide, but do you really want the asshole who doxxed you for saying free speech doesn’t protect someone from the consequences of bigoted behavior to know whether you fuck with the lights on and also to have access to your goddamn window shades regardless of whether you’re at home???
And yet. And yet! Despite being a software engineer and generally against most cutting-edge gizmos, Dude really really wanted a Nest thermostat and was only defeated by our wiring, which is made of like, braided threads set in wooden conduits. (Not quite, but close.)
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