• mlg@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I like how these only became a problem because Meta made them which meant a bunch of morons bought it.

    Hidden and pinhole cameras have been a commercially available thing for decades, even on glasses.

    Hell they even made one as a kids toy you could buy.

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      20 hours ago

      only became a problem because Meta made them

      Anyone who remember “glassholes” knows this isn’t new. Wearing a camera on your literal eyes is still a step too far in this otherwise compromised world.

      But yes, I think the big issue here, as others pointed out, has to do with the nature of the company producing them. That’d be especially important for a place like DEFCON, which is all about securing your data.

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      13 hours ago

      Hidden and pinhole cameras have been a commercially available thing for decades, even on glasses.

      And more or less equally problematic?

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        16 hours ago

        Interesting enough, while a big flop in the retail market (due to bad reception like you mentioned) I believe they ended up being quite successful in the automated logistics space.

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          16 hours ago

          And gynecologists. I remember seeing a news segment when they were discontinued that interviewed one, and she was bummed out.

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      24 hours ago

      Well, morons bought it and the device is directly connected to a data harvesting company. I think that has more to do with it. One lone weirdo with a hidden camera and a home server isn’t the same kind of boogeyman

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      20 hours ago

      It’s not the cameras that are the problem, however, it’s the companies behind them that I take issue with. It’s one thing to be spied on by a camera, it’s another thing when data collected from that camera feed is then sold to anyone who is buying. That’s what I have a problem with. The cameras themselves aren’t the issue.