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>> Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broke
by pdkl95 7y ago
>> Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider, these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. [...] The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time.
~sigh~
Snow Crash - like 1984 - was a warning, not a manual for building the future.
> Echo Frames are designed to protect your privacy.
That page is careful to always say "protect your privacy". The privacy of everyone else in range of the microphone apparently isn't even worth mentioning. That responsibility is implicitly (and silently) pushed onto the user.
- XorNot 7y agoI mean that's true of the phone in your pocket today, what's your point?
- pdkl95 7y agoThe only phone I own[1] doesn't fit in my pocket. Yes, modern "smart" phones have similar problems, but this thread is about Amazon's new eyeglass-style microphone+speaker. [1] https://www.cdw.com/product/att-trimline-210-corded-phone/3043715 https://www.cdw.com/product/att-trimline-210-corded-phone/30...
- nexuist 7y ago> That responsibility is implicitly (and silently) pushed onto the user. ...As it should be? I don't want my technology to make privacy choices for me. I'm not putting down hundreds of dollars to have some algorithm baby me into complacency. The possibility of being recorded in public has been obvious since the introduction of the microphone, and essentially expected in the smartphone age. What difference does it make if that microphone is on my glasses rather than in my pocket or on my wrist? The golden rule applies: Don't talk about things you want to hide in public. I'm not saying "you have nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hide" - I'm saying "if you have something to hide why would you announce it out loud amongst strangers?" That's just bad opsec and, yeah, it's on you to police what information you release when you're surrounded by people who listen. Smart devices or not, that's a basic responsibility anyone owes to themselves and the people they're talking about.