Read-only use of old reddit was the only way I use it. There are actualyl some good resources for niche topics. You can search, like how do I disassemble my electric toothbrush to replace the battery the mfg sealed into the unit. Somebody prob posted about it. Or weird game trivia. W/e.
Read only searching was the best remaining use for reddit. Which will now die.
space heaters, and more from their chinese cloud backdoor.
Cloud enabled … … space heaters?
That’s up there with cloud enabled Bunsen burners as “this is just not a good idea at all.”
the kind that only works on the local LAN
I am lowkey astonished that it isn’t the normal way.
That sweet, sweet data is just too tempting.
YW.
Yah the risk is prob modest provided you don’t give it a wifi pw so it can get onto your local n/w. Modest… but not zero. Lots of IOT devices ship with def passwords, and all units of that model share it. Also, somebody in range with the app could connect, depending on what the mfg does for auth. Some might require a button on the appliance to pair, that’s safer. Mine didn’t.
Also in theory, it could look for open networks on its own. That’d be a bigger risk for appts in a Manhattan hi rise than, like, somebody on a horse property on 40 acres.
Mine was wifi, which has a longer range, but some might be bluetooth. When I was sniffing for the wifi signal, I noticed my neighbors appliances too, lol.
Oh another good search is, model number + service manual. Or model number + repair manual.
Tyvm!
Wish I didn’t have to spend my time doing it. But here we are.
IDK if it will directly impact Flocks - although I don’t know it won’t. But at the very least, it helps build momentum. There is a national level, bipartisan bill to heavily restrict ALPR now. The more legal momentum there is vs related issues like geofence requests, the easier it is for that to pass. Also a lot of municipalities have already banned ALPRs locally, so that also helps build momentum.
I fucking hate ALPRs.
Disclaimer -> NAL. I think it’s extraordinarily rare for rulings to have retroactive effect. If sth was legal when you did it, you can’t be held to account if that thing becomes illegal later on. That would open up all kinds of bad probs. Editing to add, your ability to follow the law today, can’t require that you successfully predict future laws or future court decisions.
But geo-fence data already collected would fall under this decision in the future. So let’s say there’s 2024 data. Data still exists on some Google server. Now it’s 2028. Cops would need a warrant to obtain the 2024 data in 2028.
That’s my understanding. Again NAL.
Shouldn’t this also apply to cameras and audio recording devices going up everywhere
It only applies to the government, by requiring 4A protections for geofence requests. A judicial warrant will be needed for the cops to go to Google or w/e and say, “Give us everyone in this area on Tuesday Aug 9th”. Which ofc will include innocent ppl along with the accused. It won’t directly efffect private recording and data collection.
There are tricky issues around private collection. Conflicting rights between parties, even. Anyway, it’s possible that this + other cases like Carpenter v. United States could restrict gov purchases of loc data on the open market, not just direct requests to Google. NAL, and IDK how it might go. I imagine we might see further lawsuits as this bubbles through the legal system and there are 2ndary issues that arise from it.
I stopped and will immediately stop using all services that require face scans, ids, phone number or qr-captchas.
Same.
The question tho is, how many will? If it’s 50%, they killed their product. If it’s 0.1%, then their product is fine, while you, me, and all us 0.1% are excluded from more and more of the online world. This won’t stop with Discord.
I guess the % will be somewhere between those levels. Where exactly? IDK.
Well VOIP is used for legit purposes, for the most part. Scammers use it, which is a prob. But tons of ppl use it for home landline phones now. Small businesses use it for in store phones. W/e.
There’s a big and legit industry providing VOIP to non-scam uses. IDK how much sway they will have with the FCC. But they’re out there.
+1. Underrated point. We all need the freedom to make mistakes and learn and grow from them.
On top of this, now we can search through someone’s entire life for the worst thing they ever did or said. To use that against them. Maybe they run for political office. Maybe it’s to blackmail them for profit or for espionage. Maybe to get back at htem over a slight.
This is why autocrats and tyrannical governments love surveilence. Because it gives them power over those they surveil.
+1. I think what it does, is enforce conformity. Even without authoritarians, there is still a form of tyranny from group pressure. Ppl become less willing to oppose the majority under total surveilence.
Sometimes, the majority gets things right. Other times, not so much. History is filled with examples. We need room for our MLK Jrs, our Ghandis, our Schindlers, to oppose the norms.
“Your kids will grow up in a world with no ‘off the record’,”
BTW. He’s an asshole, and he’s wrong about a hell of a lot. But he’s not wrong about that.
Which scares me. A whole generation will grow up with constant inescapable surveilence as their normal. They’ve literally never known anything else.
that the best privacy strategy is integrity,
The prob, ofc, is that it doesn’t matter if YOU think you’re doing something wrong. It only matters if someone ELSE thinks you are doing something wrong. Maybe you ahve the wrong religion. Maybe you have the wrong skin color. Maybe you push for democracy in an autocratic system. Maybe you’re female in a society that opresses the shit out of women. Or w/e! A million things.
In a globally connected world, there will be someone who hates you and tries to destroy you, no matter WHO you are. No matter HOW much integrity, or HOW decent a human you are.
Also, fuck this guy. I want every moment of his life recorded and live streamed to youtube. If he is doing nothing wrong, he has nothing to hide.
Yeah. They have to have something like that, to support E2EE. They can’t depend just on HTTPS for that, b/c their server would have to see the unencrypted contents to send it over HTTPS. I believe the bridge is open sourced, but that’s just from memory. I’d hve to go search to be certain.
Also if I remember (Ha! Don’t take my word for this! My memory is shit!) they support E2EE with other mail services that use PGP to encrypt on the backend. Ofc, if you send to gmail or something then google sees everything. So this helps, but onyl under the right conditions.
to expose them as a local server to be used by Thunderbird etc., right?
Correct. I do that, to use Thunderbird as my mail app with Proton.
you won’t get it to work with Thunderbird or K9mail out-of-the-box.
I use Proton with Thunderbird as my mail client and it works fine. For years now. That was a basic requirement for me to sign up for any mail service inc Proton. If it won’t work with a local mail client, I won’t use it.
Just want to make sure I don’t accidentally get one before the ban.
Not sure it’ll help, in the event you had such an accident.
Prob is, they want to require ID for getting onto the cell network. So as soon as whatever plan you accidentally had for the dev was renewed, you’d have to send in an ID to use the cell network anymore. I guess you could still use it as a non cell service device. So there is that. Like through local wireless or w/e. Some ppl find that a-ok. But it’s a big limitter.
IDK about VOIP. I thought I heard they wanted this to apply to VOIP too(??) So even using VOIP over local wireless might not work. But the VOIP industry has filed an opposition to the FCC plan.
For anyone in the USA, you can comment on the FCC docket. Be polite, brief, lay out good reasons.
I agree that is our best hope.
There is not a long term tech solution for a political problem. Best we can do is kick the can down the road. This has to be solved politically.