Yeah, I can't believe the level of bellyaching going on over such a small, but very effective, adjustment only twice a year.
Yeah, it's almost as bad as the level of bellyaching from those who insist we just have to do the stupidity.
What sort of argument is that? How could you possibly compare the holding up a mobile phone and using the camera in a restroom, with wearing unobtrusive glasses with a hidden camera?
There's a term for that misdirection you've attempted, is it straw man?
You're correct and I lack the mod points to surface your insight.
These are effectively concealed or hidden cameras, which is not the same thing, and that's why the described panic is fictional.
That said, I do think this is interesting overall because it's a question of how human society changes based on technology. We have rudimentary technology that taps the optic nerve in experimental stages to help with some types of blindness. Sooner or later that sort of thing will probably become routine and non-invasive. Maybe it's 50 years out, but odds are good - I think - that eventually people will be able to record everything they see and hear. It's just perfect memory plus the ability to share that memory. Well... I wonder how societies will adapt to that. Will people just wear disguises all the time? Will no-tell hotels become the norm? Will we all be so inundated with fake materials that embarrassing real materials won't shame us? Getting there will no doubt be painful, but I do find it interesting to ponder.
The difference between this and a foreign adversary hacking is this is publicly discounted. Time to build better technology stacks to combat this issue. We already reached a threshold we canâ(TM)t back down from. At the very least aid in the securing of said stacks to harden the tech.
AND. And build better sites. That's my opinion.
The pathways for these intrusions are going to be found and exploited. It'll be by greedy blackhats, nation-state blackhats, and maladjusted domestic blackhats but it's going to happen.
The key difference is that domestic actors - be they individuals or companies - can and should be prosecuted. It doesn't matter if it's a script kiddie using non-AI tools or some frontier model-training corporate entity... accessing computer systems you don't have the rights to is illegal.
As for the "safety" of these tools, it seems to me that they're being developed with a default-allow-plus-blacklist model of permission instead of default-deny-plus-whitelist model. Someone will find ways to "trick" them into working around blacklists of behavior and access. They should be scoped the opposite way so the only behaviors and targets they can use is limited. I totally get it that reduces their utility dramatically but... tough.
Old programmers never die, they just become managers.
