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When I moved to US in late '90s, my mentor told the Milk distribution story/change (NY/NJ). During his grandfather times (I am sure around 1950/60s, Milkman use
by Ballu 5y ago
When I moved to US in late '90s, my mentor told the Milk distribution story/change (NY/NJ). During his grandfather times (I am sure around 1950/60s, Milkman used to enter the home and check how much milk is needed and change the bottle. With time, few crimes and privacy concepts started coming into picture, the milks bottles were left outside.
And now Amazon wants to enterr your home to do exactly what milkman used to do 60-70years back.
- DJBunnies 5y agoI don’t want Amazon in my house, but this is contrived. Determining what you need replaced and fulfilling it != secure delivery of what you ordered yourself.
- greggman3 5y agospeaking of coming into your house (and completely off topic), TIFU by using a KeyMe kiosk. I needed a copy of a key. I expected it was a mechanical copier which I'd seen before. Instead it's some kind of digital kiosk that scans the key and then, sends the info to their servers and they mail you a key. In other words, they have a database of people's keys and the address those keys belong too. I feel so stupid. Time to change my locks.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoRight. It's a scary world these days. I've recently noticed that my first, instinctive reaction to any new business idea in physical space is to look what information about me it can observe and where can it go. I started to actively avoid anything involving Internet-connected computers. As in your case: the kiosk sends a key scan and your address to some company. It's just one infosec fuckup from giving your local thieves a time of their lives.
- yosito 5y agoJesus Christ!
- CRConrad 5y ago> TIFU TIL.
- Ballu 5y agowow.. :(