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Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

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Re: Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

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Post by Fabricio20 »

rootusrootus wrote: post #182
HiPhish wrote: post #159

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> porch pirates It absolutely boggles my mind that it's legal in the US for a deliverer to just leave a package out in the open for anyone to pick up and consider it "delivered". Might as well just throw it out of the window of your car, it has the same chance of getting picked up by the recipient. Where I live the package has to be handed over to the recipient. If the recipient is not available it will be handed ove…

Do you live somewhere with high crime? The reason deliveries work this way in the US is that porch pirates are uncommon. There is a flurry of them during the holidays, but even then, the vast majority of deliveries are just fine. > What are you going to do with that information? Nothing, because by the time I look at my doorbell camera I would already have told the shipper the package was swiped and they will have sh…

Porch pirates are so uncommon that it became a yearly hunt/thing for a major american youtuber and is the only reason people outside the US even know it exists!

Re: Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

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Post by CrazyStat »

HiPhish wrote: post #147
seg_lol wrote: post #93

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They should have used base64 encryption.

How about ROT13? Ideally applied twice for twice the encryption.

ROT13 is cheap enough that you can afford to apply it many more times. I use one million iterations to store passwords securely.

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Post by cheschire »

tantalor wrote: post #23
jedberg wrote: post #2

Amazon also had the ad about Alexa killing you. Not sure what they were thinking exactly.

That ad was great. I'm not sure how it sells Alexa products, but it was hilarious.

Well you’re talking about it and not Siri

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Post by culi »

rightbyte wrote: post #104
culi wrote: post #68

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Lmao did they really say it's null-key encrypted? Unfortunately a very realistic depiction of how many of the brands advertising their security the strongest often have the most ridiculously broken security (flock)

I mean it is technobabble but in some way it is also poetic.

It's funnier than typical technobabble because they're literally saying its not encrypted. The writers knew what they were doing, I'm sure

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Post by mrob »

slg wrote: post #184
mrob wrote: post #181

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>The film is emulating the type of film that would be produced by this fascist regime. There's no frame story to support this. Going by the available evidence in the movie itself, it's a conventional action movie.

>There's no frame story to support this. There definitely is. No one on screen looks into camera and says this directly, but the whole recurring "Would you like to know more?" bit is supposed to tip the viewer off that what they're watching is a product of the government's propaganda efforts. I truly don't know how you can watch this [1] and conclude we're meant to fully trust them as the 100% honest truth. [1] - htt…

The "would you like to know more" segments are inner nested stories. Those actually are presented as in-universe video, and qualify as epistolary narrative. But to claim that the movie as a whole is anti-fascist satire relies on the assertion that the whole movie is epistolary, which goes against the narrative conventions of film-making. Judging only by what we see on screen, we have to take it at face value. To do allow otherwise permits bizarre interpretations of any fiction you like, because you can always claim it's unreliable narration.

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Post by PunchyHamster »

steezeburger wrote: post #81
dylan604 wrote: post #66

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Is that the same willies as something like 1984 or Black Mirror? All they are doing is taking some idea present now, and just taking it too the darker places of it while society is currently only seeing the rosy side of things. It's stories like this that might be first time someone might actually consider other implications of ideas.

I think they take issue with how it was ultimately okay to do to catch the Joker as long as Batman didn't use it and gave power to Luscious who resigned, instead of just calling it out as terrible and not doing it. That's how I read their comment anyway. "apologia"

Do you think they also say it's ultimately okay to beat up people as a vigilante ?

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Post by AngryData »

toephu2 wrote: post #132
whatthe12899 wrote: post #97

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> the reduction in crime is not solely due to Flock, but is has definitely helped. what's the theory? murderers see flock cams and decide not to murder? most of the general public doesn't even know what these cameras are (or that they even exist).

Lets take the current example of the famous kidnapping of the TV anchor's mother in AZ for example. If Arizona was blanketed in CCTVs, do you think this kidnapping would have happened? And if it still did happen, I'm 100% sure the suspects would have been caught by now (11th+ day since the disappearance now).

only if the cameras exist but the perpetrators don't know that they exist. If they know they are being watched on camera it doesn't take a genius to realize you just need to switch cars out of sight. And that is assuming they didn't do that already anyways.
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