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Rasperry Pi hires former police surveillance officer as Maker in Residence
- sasattack 4y agoThis guy was a UK spy cop. These men broke the law and infiltrated orgs for a living.
- drcongo 4y agoThe person running their Mastodon account needs schooling. https://bladerunner.social/@stevelord/109478020652552209 https://bladerunner.social/@stevelord/109478020652552209
- vageli 4y agoI'm shocked they are responding like that in public, really feels like a jab at the community.
- martijnvds 4y agoI feel like they haven't really been about "the community" since they started selling most Pis to companies who use them in their products instead of to regular people, and then calling it "supply chain issues".
- muchosandwich 4y agoHaving had business dealing with RPi Foundation in the past, this doesn't surprise me in the least. The way they talked about underserved communities was disgusting.
- hardnose 4y agoHow safe is bladerunner.social? Do we know who runs it, what their privacy policy is, where the data is housed, etc.? If I clicked that link, and bladerunner.social served me malware, where is the "throat to choke"?
- okasaki 4y agoI really don't understand your point. How is it different from every other URL you don't know? And if you get malware from facebook.com, who do you think you're going to "choke"? You think you're going to get something from facebook?
- hardnose 4y agoIf I was served malware by Facebook, I could definitely contact Facebook for assistance, and even sue them if necessary. And the point about "URLs I dont know" is exactly my point - the move towards hosting content on websites of dubious operational security is a net negative for internet security. Sites like Facebook may not be perfect, but at least we know who runs them, that they've got skin in the game and incentives to adhere to their stated policies as well as laws and regulations, and where our data is located.
- MisterTea 4y agoSteve Lord is the same dope who accused the 9front people of being nazis over a single image that was taken out of context. He couldn't have been more wrong but stood by his convictions and refused to budge and has not backtracked to this day. I would take anything said by this Cardinal Richelieu wannabe loudmouth with a grain of salt.
- drcongo 4y agoThe point was the screenshots of the replies from Rasperry Pi, the medium is not the message here.
- Fuzzeh 4y agoUpton is just as bad. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspberry-pi-hired-ex-cop-mastodon-controversy https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspb...
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- teekert 4y agoHe's there to help us protect our rights, right? He's there to help us protect our rights... right...? https://www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/anakin-330x330.jpg https://www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/anakin-...
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y agoI want to give them the benefit of doubt. A person that knows how the system works in practice can actually steer the company in a less dystopian direction. That said, I cannot say that I don't feel a level of discomfort, because it is not made clear what his actual function is going to be there. edit: added dont
- dustedcodes 4y agoCan someone explain what is the news here? I'm struggling to follow. 1. Is raspberry.social the Mastodon server by the actual Raspberry people? 2. They hired an ex police person? What is the context here that makes this so dramatic? 3. What is #fediblock? Is this a Mastodon wide block? That terrifies me, that's king of against the whole nature of a decentralised network right? Are we introducing "centralised" behaviour into the decentralised network?
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- chomp 4y ago1. raspberrypi.social is the official raspberrypi mastodon instance. 2. Raspberry pi hired an ex police person, I guess the concern is that he is a maker who previously made surveillance gadgets. 3. #fediblock is an announcement of defederation. As a server admin, you can jump in on #fediblocks. Or, you may want to stay federated with the instance. Originally they were used to announce defederation with pedophilia/gore/spam/harassment instances and other things you don't want your community getting polluted with. They are still used for that, but there's a lot of activism in #fediblock also.
- Fuzzeh 4y agoThe issue was that Raspberry pi responded badly, and any criticism or concern was met with "Unfollow us or we can block you" responses from them. #fediblock isn't a requirement for any instance to take part in. The problem was made worse because the Raspberry pi team wouldn't engage with other instances to try and resolve the issue. Yes there are going to be issues with the #fediblock, bigger instances will always have more power to silence others.
- yardie 4y agoI've made friends with a few former police officers. And they usually tell me the job silently destroys you inside. The job makes you deal with the worst of the worst daily and after a few years, mentally you are fucked. If an officer wants to do something that is constructive rather than destructive of society, they should be commended. The friends that have left the profession would rather work fastfood than anything even tangentially close to law enforcement, like security.
- Kye 4y agoIt would help if they clarified his role. So far all he's done is brag about his history of using his new employer's product to create surveillance devices. Absent any details, it's reasonable to assume he was hired for this experience in the lead up to seeking a goldmine many companies aim for: law enforcement contracts.
- asow92 4y agoSo is the concern that they are going to aid law enforcement in catching people who break the law? I'm having a difficult time realizing the outrage here.
- asow92 4y agoAnd what is wrong with this exactly? Are you concerned that this guy is going to survey people without anyone's knowledge? Are you that paranoid?
- trs8080 4y agoSome people do not support law enforcement and a large number of people using Mastodon are pro-privacy and anti-surveillance. RPI's cavalier response to their concerns about a former surveillance officer being hired by a company that creates computers is a cause for concern.
- asow92 4y agoIt just seems paranoid to me, but what do I know.