A lotta vapes are reportedly chock full of lead, so kids probably shouldn’t be puffing clouds in the bathroom stall, but was there any reason to design the most exploitable version of a product to alert school administrators about it?
The manufacturer was happy to expand to Section 8 (USA, subsidized) housing in spite of script kiddies, rogue employees, or legit employees working under new guidelines being able to root into the Motorola Halo 3C and use its fully-functioning microphones to invade privacy.
The frog is boiling slowly: pay more for your car insurance when your insurer buys your driving data today; risk your home insurance when you don’t install this “fire prevention” spyware tomorrow.
DEF CON 33 - Unmasking the Snitch Puck: IoT surveillance tech in the school bathroom - Reynaldo, nyx: YouTube
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Chalk-free edit, thanks @dan1101@lemmy.world
Charottez chokkefull charegyde with golde, yadadamean?
Awesome! Etymology is a fascination of mine, where language derives itself from and how words and phrases have changed and even been bastardized to mean something else. One of my favorites being ‘Pull yourself up by your bootstraps’.
lol it’s impossible to do that huh
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The phrase also derives from a mid 1800 child’s physics book that had review questions at the end of each chapter to check if you understood the information. One of the questions was ‘Can a man pull himself up by his bootstraps?’, which is of course impossible because he is being acted upon by forces greater than himself…namely gravity.
Indeed, the more you know.