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And the panopticon grows... I'm not so concerned about Amazon or Google (though Facebook is creepy, even them).

I'm worried about the access that nation-states security teams have distributed across the entire set of poorly secured, 0-day infested monitoring devices everywhere.

20 years ago I laughed at how infeasible Enemy of the State was, but now it seems feasible (with added drones).

Even the "enhance/sharpen" part seems feasible if everything is packing HD/4k feeds.



Somewhere, someday, the 'mandatory' Alexa like device will bring us the "1984" era.


Under the guise of some new sort of 911. After they confiscate the guns.




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