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Someone already pointed this out in another thread: what if someone hacks it, starts displaying shock porn. Closing your eyes won't help, neither can you take t

Someone already pointed this out in another thread: what if someone hacks it, starts displaying shock porn. Closing your eyes won't help, neither can you take them off as easy as glasses.

unwind 14y ago
Until someone develops active (LED-based) contacts with high enough resolution to really shock you, that's not a great risk. I think the current research front is at around 2^8 or 2^9 pixels, perhaps. I'd feel pretty safe from being "eye-raped" by anything on such a display. Note that I mean total pixels, not "pixels squared", i.e. a couple of hundred pixels total. Of course, a big always-on or annoyingly flashing block of color in your field of vision even with your eyes closed would be pretty annoying. But only until you've managed to take out the contact, which is not all that hard to do with some practice.
- showerst 14y ago
  Unless they overlaid a big opaque black block while you were driving at high speed... (Granted I'm sure they'll think about that during the design phase, and maybe not allow 100% opacity or something.)
ganarajpr 14y ago
How many times on your computer have you been targeted by a hacker who showed you shock porn ? If the answer is nil, why do you think it will happen on your glass?
- yuchi 14y ago
  It's called "ratting" [1] and happens awfully more often that it should. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_administration_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_administration_software
willismichael 14y ago
If somebody is going to do malicious hacking on glass or a glass-like device, I would say that displaying offensive material is among the least of our worries.
Guillaume86 14y ago
If we manage to put hight resolution active displays in contact lenses, I'm pretty sure we can manage to implement a convenient safety switch (blink eyes three times? I'm sure somebody will come with something better)

Someone already pointed this out in another thread: what if someone hacks it, starts displaying shock porn. Closing your eyes won't help, neither can you take them off as easy as glasses.

unwind 14y ago

Until someone develops active (LED-based) contacts with high enough resolution to really shock you, that's not a great risk. I think the current research front is at around 2^8 or 2^9 pixels, perhaps. I'd feel pretty safe from being "eye-raped" by anything on such a display. Note that I mean total pixels, not "pixels squared", i.e. a couple of hundred pixels total. Of course, a big always-on or annoyingly flashing block of color in your field of vision even with your eyes closed would be pretty annoying. But only until you've managed to take out the contact, which is not all that hard to do with some practice.

showerst 14y ago
Unless they overlaid a big opaque black block while you were driving at high speed... (Granted I'm sure they'll think about that during the design phase, and maybe not allow 100% opacity or something.)

ganarajpr 14y ago

How many times on your computer have you been targeted by a hacker who showed you shock porn ? If the answer is nil, why do you think it will happen on your glass?

yuchi 14y ago
It's called "ratting" [1] and happens awfully more often that it should. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_administration_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_administration_software

willismichael 14y ago

If somebody is going to do malicious hacking on glass or a glass-like device, I would say that displaying offensive material is among the least of our worries.

Guillaume86 14y ago

If we manage to put hight resolution active displays in contact lenses, I'm pretty sure we can manage to implement a convenient safety switch (blink eyes three times? I'm sure somebody will come with something better)