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But parliament wants to seed your camera with mugshots of the FBI's top-ten most wanted list so the instant a false positive appears (directly on the camera, potentially even prior to writing the image to disk, potentially even prior to pressing the snapshot button)... they beacon an alert (or exfiltrate piggybacking via Bluetooth/AirTag/Covid exposure tracking mrchanisms), and bob's you're uncle.


I’m starting to think that a government large enough to get all the things it could want might be a bad idea.


I'd generalize this to any hierarchy. That includes corporations, institutions, religions, governments, cults, basically any time there are more than two people in the same room.


Sounds like there's going to be a market for vintage cell phones built before that happens. Although eventually they'll stop being useful as gWhatever rolls out and telecom providers stop supporting 4/5g.




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