For months members of the public have been using GeoSpy, a tool trained on millions of images that can find the location a photo was taken based on soil, architecture, and more. It's GeoGuesser at scale.
Nope it’s pentesting. Gotta keep up with IT terminology. If the author didn’t intend it, it’s malware.
If any spyware or back doors are found, foss community can quickly deal with it.
This happened with xz, a rogue maintainer snuck in malware which was by chance found. But there would be no chance if it were closed source or talented maintainers were so appreciated by society that they were mourned after starving to death.
Honestly it’s a bit trickier. I listened to the podcast episode and my 1st thought was like “Damn… obviously bad” and during the FOSS part I couldn’t but think “Ah… for my photo with missing EXIF GPS data… that’d be neat” specifically because I’m using Immich to host my photo on my server. Now Immich has face recognition, cf https://github.com/immich-app/immich/tree/main/machine-learning and more. Would it be wrong to extend it?
LOL. Rules and laws are for the working class. Even if selling the data elsewhere or to a shell corporation wouldn’t work, some other legal fiction would be invented for the occasion.
And this isn’t a recent phenomenon, this is just how we’ve always lived our lives.
Seriously. Fuck all the tech and programmer guys helping to accelerate our doom and subjugation.
Which excludes FOSS maintainers. Who should be well funded to protect our tech stacks from neglect.
Whatever you are scared of.
I’m scared of this more
foss spyware is still spyware
Nope it’s pentesting. Gotta keep up with IT terminology. If the author didn’t intend it, it’s malware.
If any spyware or back doors are found, foss community can quickly deal with it.
This happened with xz, a rogue maintainer snuck in malware which was by chance found. But there would be no chance if it were closed source or talented maintainers were so appreciated by society that they were mourned after starving to death.
Honestly it’s a bit trickier. I listened to the podcast episode and my 1st thought was like “Damn… obviously bad” and during the FOSS part I couldn’t but think “Ah… for my photo with missing EXIF GPS data… that’d be neat” specifically because I’m using Immich to host my photo on my server. Now Immich has face recognition, cf https://github.com/immich-app/immich/tree/main/machine-learning and more. Would it be wrong to extend it?
the programmers should at least use licenses that prevent legal use by the police and government agencies.
LOL. Rules and laws are for the working class. Even if selling the data elsewhere or to a shell corporation wouldn’t work, some other legal fiction would be invented for the occasion.
And this isn’t a recent phenomenon, this is just how we’ve always lived our lives.
America was never great, but it could be.