I hope these get litigated to death or else people feel peer pressure at being an asshole for buying them.

The fun thing is that with novel cases, the law can change. There’s currently no precedent for AI Camera Glasses, and the law(s) I cited were created before anything like this was even a real possibility for the average person.

And re: phones—you can see that’s a camera. Also, they have a bright LED that indicates recording. These glasses do not.

I get your cynicism, but we do not yet live in the dystopian plutocracy where companies get to do whatever they want with impunity (just a lot of it). Unless you’re a lawyer, I’m not inclined towards your opinion.

https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/recording-phone-calls-and-conversations

The info on that page is a little dated but mostly accurate (there’s still 11 states that require two-party consent for recording a conversation, for example). There’s other sources you can find.

I’m not saying it’s a slam dunk case against devices like this, but it’s not like it’s especially common for people to walk around with what are essentially covert cameras on their faces. It’s something for future courts to decide, and I could see an argument against them on these grounds.

Again, I’m NAL.

Several states have anti-spying laws that require disclosure that you’re recording them. I expect we’ll see an uptick in lawsuits about this issue, which will force Meta to revise their device or will cause a chilling effect on their sales.

There are some hardware keys that have PINs, like OnlyKey, but you’re always going to have trade-offs (OnlyKey has some as well). You are correct that someone could steal the key and know your password, but the likelihood that someone could do both is likely low for most people, and if it’s high for you, you’re probably a state actor or big cybercriminal engaging in some crazy shit anyway.

The core tenets of good security are something you know and something you have. For example, my work uses an RFID badge and a personal code to get into the building. Neither works alone. If somebody steals my badge, they can’t get into the building without my access code. If somebody steals a database of access codes, they can’t get in without the badge that pairs with the code.

A TOTP is something you have, sure, but it’s only secure if someone is unable to extract the secret key (or the code at runtime, which is possible via screen-reading techniques); as long as it exists digitally, secrecy is not guaranteed, and the attack surface is larger—for any device connected to the internet—to have that key stolen.

A physical key is harder to steal over the internet, and an attacker would have to know you have one in the first place to even go about beginning to search for it (I don’t think a court could force you to divulge that you have one or where it is, since you have a right to remain silent, but I’m NAL).

Ultimately, there is no panacea of security, or else everybody would use that one thing. In the end, it comes down to your threat model and the kinds of attacks that are likely to be thrown at you.

program that lets you watch youtube videos privately

Another one called FluxTube and one called magic-tape were posted recently, too.

The fact that winamp still exists is just silly fun.

Is this an earnest question? I can’t tell

Neat. I’ll take a closer look later, but this sounds like an interesting project

And this is why I haven’t installed Teams on my personal computer. If it was less invasive, I would, but it’s just potential bossware masquerading as “productivity tools.”

That shit stays on my work computer, and I just VPN into it.

That’s why I still use FF. I wish they were run by better people, but it’s still not on par with Google’s shit.

And they still offer useful features/services like email masks, cookie containers, and a VPN (which is rebranded Mullvad). If they were awful bad actors, they would be running their own exit nodes and surreptitiously collecting user data that way.

TBH, we’d probably all do well to use the internet a little less

I had forgotten why I dropped Brave. This was why.

How’s that? If I’m running a Windows machine, how would a CUPS exploit affect me?

I’m not asking maliciously, but I genuinely don’t grasp how that could be a viable attack vector.

I like your idea. But you’ll have to settle for being a fish.

Probably won’t happen until Millennials and younger are in meaningful numbers in Congress or Parliament or whatever. A few Gen X politicians might be affected, but the rest probably don’t have gigantic digital libraries of things they’ve “bought.”

How?

I would have considered a folding book-style phone if I wanted a tablet. I agree that they’re likely the only viable use case that isn’t a complete gimmick.

Admittedly, I don’t know much about the ins and outs of GPUs, but perhaps it’s a GTX vs. RTX issue. They’re different enough that the NVK project is targeting only RTX and up.

The very next sentence:

Note that everything that is not Linux has been filtered out [in this filtered list of unique IPs]. That is why I was getting increasingly alarmed during the last few weeks.

They said they were getting duplicates and non-*nix hits with that 300k number, which doesn’t help them (i.e. the hundreds of thousands of hits was artificially inflated). So yes, the threat is overblown.

Coupled with the fact that patches are already out, and it’s easily mitigated by closing 631, and I don’t expect this will be much of a problem for most people.