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points by Terr_ 3 days ago | 0 comments

I fear a future where pretty much everything is trying to hack you or doing something which is indistinguishable from the meddling of a hostile actor.

I suppose the answer is politics rather than technology: Get enough people together to make a rule against it, and at least it will become niche.

[–] marcosdumay 2 days ago

Hello from 9 hours in the future.

Things are crazy now. Our TVs snapshot the stuff we watch; our telephones, watches, and TVs are constantly listening what we say; our PCs have undocumented "remote administration" devices that we can't opt-out; every internet service out there is stealing every data that it physically can and selling it to a long list of organizations, including some military ones...

[–] _kb 2 days ago

Hello fellow time traveller, I also come to you from 5 - 10 years ago.

Back in this time children and families playing AR games are actually just data collection for GPS-denied military drones [1]. ~70% of the world's population voluntarily carry continuously connected GPS trackers, multi-camera, multi-microphone devices with fairly advanced sensor suites and send this into a plethora of 'social' platforms. This includes when they're jogging/tracing the outline of aircraft carriers [2] and military bases [3]. Vehicles are internet connected, laughably insecure and record every movement, and the movement of everything else in their vicinity [4]. And, for some reason, everything in your house is 'smart' and the building you work in is filled with 'advanced IoT' sensors and high precision wifi-tralateration that provides a firehouse of data to countless third parties.

We've been steadily descending for a long time and seem intent of speed-running dystopia.

[1] https://www.nianticspatial.com/defense-and-intelligence

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9vdel17wqo

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracki...

[4] https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-10-09/car-brands-ar...

[–] Spivak 2 days ago

People are still wearing tinfoil hats about Intel's IPMI that's not even usable unless you have compatible hardware and purposely set it up?

[–] 20after4 1 day ago

How can you be sure there isn't a remote exploit or intentional back door?

[–] Yevini 3 days ago

I'm not sure regulation alone would solve it. Depending on the country, governments themselves sometimes require ISPs to interfere with DNS

[–] pjc50 3 days ago

That is regulation! You do actually have to win the argument for liberalism in public if you don't want your fellow citizens to keep trying to stop you doing this.