Been thinking a lot about how unfriendly my neighborhood (okay, the increasingly pricey single-family homes further into my neighborhood) feels the more Ring cameras go in.
Now I'm thinking about how "obey in advance" is such a moot point when it comes to consumer security technology. People ate that up and now the residential areas in which we should be building resilience with neighbors have a ready-made authoritarian surveillance net instead.
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I am no infosec or other security expert, but I've always hated visiting homes with smart assistant devices. At this point, I would honestly be tempted to tell friends and family that I won't step foot inside if those are present.
I know this is an ironic statement since I do own a smartphone. I don't know how far I can draw the line. But I figure starting with the Alexas is better than nothing.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •That's the problem with non-capitalist tech ventures... No money for a user-friendly interface speciality department, so the only people seeing the tech are deep in the tech world and won't understand the limitations non-tech people face in trying to use it 🙃 (I can barely use mastodon, and certainly haven't found a concise and unintimidating way to explain how hashtags [don't] work, to convince other non-computer-programmers to join)
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