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Leisher wrote:

TheCatt wrote: We told a telecom-ish product to the UK, and they had all sorts of restrictions, and one of them was that no employee from our company could enter the room where production stuff ran, or use a terminal that connected to it. You had to tell someone, one room over, what to do, without being able to see what they were doing.

The problem with that is they're in the building, which means they're already past most of your firewalls and whatnot. Point being, it's a million times easier to hack from within a building than from outside of it.

TheCatt wrote:

Leisher wrote:

TheCatt wrote: We told a telecom-ish product to the UK, and they had all sorts of restrictions, and one of them was that no employee from our company could enter the room where production stuff ran, or use a terminal that connected to it. You had to tell someone, one room over, what to do, without being able to see what they were doing.

The problem with that is they're in the building, which means they're already past most of your firewalls and whatnot. Point being, it's a million times easier to hack from within a building than from outside of it.

Anything that connects to that room is isolated, so it's not the same firewalls. It's another set of firewalls, etc. It's like breaking into the house, but there's still a safe.

TheCatt wrote: I'm generally OK with government (police, etc) using technology to do their fucking job.

Leisher wrote: FBI can now see what porn sites you're visiting without a warrant.

TheCatt wrote:

Leisher wrote: FBI can now see what porn sites you're visiting without a warrant.

Seems very unconstitutional

GORDON wrote: Regular commuters know these spots, and slow down for them. They're going to drive even worse than they normally do, now. I'm really going to miss it in that school zone, because school zone speeders need to be pulled out of their cars and beaten on the street.

By partnering with research firms who have more visibility in this space, the DHS could produce information that would likely be beneficial to both it and the FBI, which can't monitor US citizens in this way without first getting a warrant or having the pretext of an ongoing investigation. The CIA and NSA are also limited on collecting intelligence domestically.

Leisher wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 1:03 pm States using ID.me's facial recognition software to prevent unemployment fraud.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 3:37 pm

Leisher wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 1:03 pm States using ID.me's facial recognition software to prevent unemployment fraud.

I'm fine with that. But, I think facial recognition should be everywhere. Like, I dunno, Chicago would be a great place to start.

A gunshot detection system that has cost Chicago tens of millions of dollars and is touted as a critical component of the police department's effort to combat gun violence rarely produces evidence of gun-related crime in the city, Chicago's watchdog agency concluded.

In a scathing report released Tuesday, the Office of Inspector General's Public Safety section said the police department data it examined “does not support a conclusion that ShotSpotter is an effective tool in developing evidence of gun-related crime." And, the office concluded, if the department has information that shows ShotSpotter plays a key role in developing such evidence, its “record-keeping practices are obstructing a meaningful analysis of the effectiveness of the technology.”

The inspector general’s office found that between Jan. 1, 2020, and May 31 of this year, just over 50,000 ShotSpotter alerts were confirmed as probable gunshots, but that actual evidence of a gun-related crime was found in only about 4,500 instances, or about 9%.

Leisher wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 3:54 pm Another couple arrested for selling secrets.

That is treason. Hang them. Not kidding.