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Cake day: July 11th, 2023
  • Do those of you that despise smart glasses think you’ll have the same moral issues with optical implants?

    yes.

    What could be done to avoid the issues you have with the glasses when it comes to implants, if anything?

    mostly nothing. it could be a solution if they could be easily verifiably made for anyone that these don’t have any wireless connections, or any kind of connection to a computer network. and that these have no capability of storing recordings. but this is not possible.

    Do you intend to discriminate against people with augments if you live long enough to see them in widespread use?

    Unfortunately, yes. just like I want to keep robots and surveillance cars out of my life, and my environment. but that is already not working out, as people are perfectly comfortable with their cars recording all their neighborhood.

  • Actually the problem is that they are too widespread. if something happened, and they started creating fake certificates, for outside force or otherwise, they can’t just be blocked because literally half of the internet or more breaks. what’s worse, if browser vendors trued that, people would be downgrading their browser to the last version accepting it, and become exposed to publicly revealed security vulnerabilities. not all because its a bit complicated, but enough would do to have it cause an even greater problem.

  • which is still there if you are not using lets encrypt, because they can strongarm them to make a fake cert for your domain, and install a proxy repackaging HTTPS traffic with the fake certificate. all browsers trust the lets encrypt root certificate, so they won’t see anything suspicious.

    the only thing there today to detect this (but not avoid) is certificate transparency logs. all modern certificates are required to be added to this log, for the CA to remain compliant. but browsers are not checking the logs, that would be a lot of additional traffic and how do they decide if a certificate was created maliciously? also, lets encrypt could afford being noncompliant, browser vendors can’t realistically just distrust their root certificate, many sites would become inaccessible.

  • That ‘digital shit’ has about as much value as what you flush down the toilet, individually, but combined into representative market statistics it’s digital gold - predictive information about what will sell, how much of it will sell at what prices, where and when.

    the advertising industry has left that behind many years ago. the question now is not what will sell, but how will they sell literally any garbage, how do they get you to buy that any garbage, and how do they make you actually want that any garbage above anything else. its mass manipulation from start to end, with the knowledge about everyone how to press their buttons.