ooterness @ ooterness @lemmy.world

I'm an electrical engineer living in Los Angeles, CA.

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The Google system allegedly shares hashes of a ID-number salted with a rotating timestamp over BLE. But it's also a closed-source binary. Can you or anyone else actually inspect its implementation? Can you really guarantee it doesn't have even the smallest design flaws?

This technology is exceptionally dangerous. There is very little difference between these two scenarios:

• A doctor has identified a COVID patient. Let's notify everyone who's spent time with them recently.
• Secret police have identified a "dissident". Let's round up all their close associates.

It's voluntary (for now). It's allegedly secure (for now). But did anyone actually benefit from this complicated system? All I see are downsides.

Q, the guy from Star Trek?

Good riddance. It's a totalitarian privacy nightmare that never functioned as advertised.

Similar systems were widely deployed in Singapore, on the premise it would only be used to fight COVID. Then to no one's surprise, law enforcement started it using for criminal investigations.

Once they're built, governments cannot resist abusing such systems.

It's the "Staberinde", according to this Stackoverflow discussion. (It's been a while, I had to look up the name.)

Ensign Daft Punk of the USS Shenzhou needs some love.

Too soon... 🦴😢

It's the fortress-ship from Iain Bank's "Use of Weapons".

The Emperor protects, battle brothers.

Weird, the new ToC just says "I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further."

I knew it! Parents "checking" the candy are just taking the good stuff for themselves.

It could have also been 12001 or 12003.

This 100%. In Star Trek, it's easy to make intelligent life by accident: Badgey, Exo-Comps, Lore, Wesley's unnamed nanites. The hard part is keeping them from taking over the ship and killing all the organics.

How is the seatbelt supposed to work when the ship activates its Pegasus-style phasing-cloaking device?

It's Hooty, from Owl House.

But Yoda secretly having an evil red sith lightsaber is the best part.

Jokes on them, I brought a Starlink dish in my carry-on.

My cat insists on it. With almost any new thing, she will meow until she gets to sniff it.

Why does the fake skeleton have little bone ears?

If they've got FTL, it's not violating the Prime Directive.

I don't want to get out of futon.