Then you provide the enemy with ammunition.
They claim that the purpose of the cameras is to prevent crime, and that the people who oppose them are violent extremists. They’ve even tried to label deflock.me as a terrorist organization.
Don’t provide the enemy with ammunition.
Even better, a group should cut down several dozen of them and mount them all on poles outside his house during the night, so that he wakes up to them in the morning. No vandalism, no violence, no threats, just a blunt statement that the media couldn’t possibly ignore.
Heck, no need to even risk collecting that many real ones. I hear there’s some fairly decent 3D printed fakes available.
CREEPINT
Come and get some
Skinning the children for a war drum
Putting food on the table selling bombs and guns
It’s quicker and easier to eat your young
Care to tell me where that gullible userbase is coming from?
They’re not all gullible. A lot of VC types are obsessive gamblers, they’ll throw money at anything that sounds like it might have a high return.
Pray, tell - what do they come for?
That’s where the marketing comes in. Elon is pretty good at selling these big ideas, making them sound futuristic and world-changing. He not only sells those ideas to VCs, but also to the government. A lot of his businesses have pulled in substantial government contract money. The public rarely gets any return from those tax dollars.
A lot of it has to do with over-promising and under-delivering. The rest is marketing.
Ah, of course - we should point a Flock camera at every family home. Problem solved.
That’s worse, not better. Ignorance of the danger is not an advantage.
Yeah, I bought an Eco-Drive 10 years ago and it’s still working great. I never have to worry about it, it just works. I’ve bought two more since, the very cheapest basic model I could find (BM-8180 https://ebay.io/m/wZhDp4), and a fancier dressier one (CA-4553 https://ebay.io/m/TbSiJ5). My original GN-4W-S has taken a real beating over a decade, the glass and body are scratched all to hell, it’s been dropped and banged against door frames &etc. It doesn’t seem to mind, still keeping time like it did brand new.
If you want a watch that just does its job and doesn’t really need anything from you, the Citizen Eco-Drive models are great.
I have bad news for you…
In all seriousness though, I have a case with a winder for a mechanical watch, and while it keeps the mechanism ready the watch still needs to be reset regularly. Mechanical watches can’t match the precision of quartz crystal timing. They will gain or lose a few seconds every day even if kept perfectly wound, and after a week in the winder it will be noticeably off.
A $10 digital watch keeps time more accurately than a $1000 Swiss mechanism.
What flavor of astroturf is this?
SYAC: no pictures of the actual vehicle in this article, just stock images of Flock cameras. How incompetent of a journalist do you have to be to fail to include a picture of the thing your article is about?
Here is an article that actually shows the wrap on the car:
https://www.techspot.com/news/113418-cybersecurity-researcher-covered-toyota-ai-generated-pattern-confuse.html
It looks like this:
And here is a link to the mentioned Kickstarter campaign, which the Yahoo article also fails to provide:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/norecognition/norecognition-ai-adversarial-clothing/description
The campaign doesn’t mention the car at all, which is a little odd. You’d think they’d be using the media attention.
I also want to share a link to a previous post about this project:
https://piefed.social/c/privacy@lemmy.world/p/2288321/anti-flock-anti-ring-ai-adversarial-clothing-demo-d-blackhat-defcon
My opinion is still the same as in that discussion - I don’t think a static pattern is going to be effective for very long.
Eh, maybe buy the assets after they file for bankruptcy. Better to do it at the state level than federal though. I’m sure there are several state governments that could use a server hardware upgrade.
they could have examined some things.
I feel like they did through the tapes that Darling left behind.
Ah, of course, sportsball.
People actually subscribe to Peacock on purpose?
…and then things got worse.
No problem, volunteer to be a poll worker for your county.
If you’re there in an official capacity they can’t complain about you loitering or ask you to leave.
Ooh, yes someone should do this not on any particular person’s property but as an avantgarde public art installation. Not with actual Flock cameras but just some replicas. Pop it up in a couple different cities around the world.