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WCDT strips 4286-4290 (15th to 19th June 2020)
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Is Yay also eavesdropping when there's cookies to be had?
Scarlet Manuka:
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 18 Jun 2020, 19:38 ---(Larry Niven once pointed out Superman probably accidentally both sees and hears stuff they shouldn't, but doesn't intend to. It's not HIS fault people shamelessly wear clothes with no lead in them.)
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As the poster in this strip points out, x-ray vision isn't as exciting as all that:
https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-137-i-hear-shampoo-works-better-if-you-writhe/
St.Clair:
--- Quote from: the silent firefly on 18 Jun 2020, 22:35 ---
--- Quote from: dreed on 18 Jun 2020, 18:32 ---So yay is actively spying on random people in privacy of their home.
That is disturbing.
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--- Quote from: shanejayell on 18 Jun 2020, 19:38 ---I do wonder how much Yay's spying is intentional, and how much is kinda automatic.
(Larry Niven once pointed out Superman probably accidentally both sees and hears stuff they shouldn't, but doesn't intend to. It's not HIS fault people shamelessly wear clothes with no lead in them.)
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i have assumed that Yay would at least be taking advantage of the US' surveillance system / panopticon. that would give them access to all electronic communication and any conversation within mic range of any smart device, at minimum. the range of their implied abilities suggests they could be capable of monitoring all that data constantly. that said, it might also suggest that they don't even need to tap into our surveillance networks, that they are already tapped in on a more fundamental level. either way, it's probably both automatic and intentional.
finding out how they do it would be fun though!
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I was thinking much the same - that the equivalent, in this case, would be something like "it's not Yay's fault that manufacturers are constantly putting such capabilities into their devices and leaving them barely or entirely unsecured."
Back in the '90s, when I played certain games, I'd sometimes wonder "why is all of this stuff hooked up to the Net where any random hacker can get into it? (I mean, other than so the PCs can.) There's no real need or reason for it to be."
Now here we are in the '20s and the actual cyberpunk dystopia and... yeah.
Roborat:
--- Quote from: St.Clair on 19 Jun 2020, 02:12 ---
I was thinking much the same - that the equivalent, in this case, would be something like "it's not Yay's fault that manufacturers are constantly putting such capabilities into their devices and leaving them barely or entirely unsecured."
Back in the '90s, when I played certain games, I'd sometimes wonder "why is all of this stuff hooked up to the Net where any random hacker can get into it? (I mean, other than so the PCs can.) There's no real need or reason for it to be."
Now here we are in the '20s and the actual cyberpunk dystopia and... yeah.
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And this is why I don't have Alexa, or google, or any other of those wifi enabled gadgets in my house, and why I won't let the security company install one of those app enabled door locks on my house. "But wouldn't it be convenient if you could unlock your door remotely, what if you/your wife/kids forgot their keys?" they said. "If I can unlock it, so can somebody else" I reply, "can you guarantee someone can't hack into the system?". Repsonse, silence. And who needs an internet enabled fridge anyway?
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