cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/47704486

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

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        13 hours ago

        They killed a health insurance CEO. Nothing materially changed. They tried to kill Trump several times. Nothing materially changed.

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          Not true. In the wake of the health care CEO’s execution, approvals not only increased in his company, but other health care companies as well. Thousands of people were helped who would have been cheated otherwise.

          They’ve gone back to their old ways, which only proves that a CEO needs to be executed at random every 6 months or so, until they’ve made proper behavior a positive habit.

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          It changed something - approval rates for a while were much higher. After they found out that it was a lone incident, it went back to the business as usual.

          So every part of it is true. It works, and you must not stop until it’s worked out in its entirety.

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    They removed it and are looking at masking it better and will reinstall it after it’s hidden and only Meta can spy on people and the data will be available for all agencies that want it.

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      Erosion of public opinion has always been the plan. I did a double take recently when I found out that back in 2017, Mozilla adding telemetry was something that people actually were offended by. Unfortunately, people stopped being offended by it, and nobody noticed that the telemetry experts were from the Facebook company, and soon that innocent data collection turned into an ad network.

      We need to go back to treating these people the same way Google Glass users were treated back in the 2010s. They were Glassholes then. They’re surveillance freaks today. They should be shunned by society. The nicest thing you should do to somebody wearing these surveillance glasses is to politely tell them that you are uncomfortable around their weird behavior.

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        I’m curious as to how people were actually using Google Glass in 2013. The only place I saw one then was at a programming meetup. I’m quite sure people weren’t regularly running the camera continuously because that drains the battery in a hurry and overheats it even faster.

        Source: I bought a new old stock Glass XE-C this year. They’re $50 on Ebay. I’m working on a navigation app for it because I want heads-up cycling directions.

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        Break their shit and tell them to go fuck themselves sounds about what we should be doing. Make it so not okay that others like them get scared.

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        22 hours ago

        He must revel in looking like an unequivocal douche. You don’t just roll out of bed looking like that–that is intentional

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      “We can just collect pieces of telemetry from the 50,000 other data collection mechanisms we have installed on the glasses and then reassemble it server side where we have the AI set up to fuck everyone on the planet

      “You didn’t think that this was the only way we were fucking everyone on the planet did you? Bwa ha ha ha”

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      It’s funny they even do anything about it at this point. It’s not like they’re ever going to be put out of business

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    I think the plan at this point if you catch some asshole wearing smart glasses. You walk up to the biggest dude around and tell him that the guy is recording his kids or wife with his glasses being creepy.

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        True enough the idea is to be long gone by the time something goes down. I’m not saying I would scream in a crowed but just quietly walk up and tell father/husband. I mean if wasn’t being creepy why would he be wearing a hidden camera bon his face.

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          You do you but just remember that we live in a society chock full of surveillance. Running away isn’t a guarantee that you won’t be caught. They can track your phone, your face, or your car with very little effort on their part.

          So maybe don’t incite people to violence for a tech device. Just go punch him yourself if you’re so inclined.

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    I don’t own any smart glasses, but people’s hatred of them is weird. Every time you leave your house or apartment you’re being recorded by people’s doorbell cams, security cams, anyone holding a phone vertical could be filming you, and you can’t tell. And that’s not even getting into the actual hidden cameras that are so cheap and easily accessible these days.

    You wanna get worked up about some guy with a camera in his goofy looking glasses?

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      It’s not weird, they are just a bit smarter than you in understanding that secret personal cameras will lead to tons of harassment of women, weird looking people, anyone doing anything embarrassing etc etc. It all goes up on social media.