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Idk, I get your point but... Imagine a world where I could visit a site or ask a gpt to use the only thing I know about you, your apparently obfuscated HN usern
by conductr 3y ago
Idk, I get your point but... Imagine a world where I could visit a site or ask a gpt to use the only thing I know about you, your apparently obfuscated HN username, and then I could track you in real time. Because it knew your username’s IP address, which then knew your phone, which then gave me a feed of your gps coordinates, which then gave me live video/audio of any networked camera/smart home device you were in view of. There would be very little shadow over you that people couldn’t watch, or record for future scrutiny. Your employer, business associates, religious groups, neighbors, etc would know everything about you. This is just the tip of the iceberg, your search history and porn viewing preferences and everything else you consider private would then be connected to the username you hide behind.
That would be a bit creepy but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if NSA had the data to build this capability. Money seems like a decent but exploitable way to keep all this data from being stitched together privately