• @[email protected]
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    10 months ago

    If you don’t have a sidewalk bridge but your neighbour half a mile away has one, your device will connect to your neighbour’s bridge and send data to Amazon without you knowing

    • Clegko
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      Uhhh. No.

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          110 months ago

          correct me if im wrong, but a device trying to connect to the network in order to analytics. Which can’t, which then defaults to a SECONDARY BACKUP mechanism, just to transmit ANALYTICS. Is basically just spying, and you cannot convince me otherwise.

          • @[email protected]
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            110 months ago

            I… Well I might try but only if it were funny. I agree. But its not effectively (and I don’t think technically) illegal.

            • KillingTimeItself
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              110 months ago

              the fact that it isn’t illegal is astonishing to me.

              or at least incredibly frowned upon.

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                Why? Laws aren’t here to protect you. The entire pretense of that is just to make you accept when the propertarian (and in most places white supremacist) gangsters want to walk into your community and disappear/murder someone they don’t like.

                It is frowned upon tho. By us. Others too, i bet, if they know about it. So what’s the plan? Me, I just haven’t bought a new TV since like 2014, but that’s a personal dodge rather than a systemic fix, and it feels really trashy not having a solution for others, besides ‘go without’.

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                  110 months ago

                  I mean, the law literally states that we aren’t required to house soliders in the time of war if we desire. It also asserts privacy and a certain level of personal freedom. I see no extent as to why this shouldn’t extend to multinational corpos or at the very least, be explicitly clear.

                  Ultimately, i think we just need to get into government, and actually fucking do something about it.

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                    10 months ago

                    “The system is broken! We must appeal to the system for help!”

                    That’s insane and absurd.

                    The amount of effort required to make government do anything other than imperialism and genocide (and they will always half ass it) is always a substantial multiple of just doing it yourself. Stop begging, and letting their bullshit appropriate your desire for a better world.