Horrifying behaviour by administration.

@academicchatter #Privacy #Surveillance #ShittyTech

https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/m7gwy3/no-grad-students-analyze-hack-and-remove-under-desk-surveillance-devices-designed-to-track-them

Our baby monitor has bit the dust after a good 7 sears of service. Repair is possible but am a bit time-poor for that.

So am thinking either a direct no-WiFi replacement if those still exist OR if anyone has done a productised but open source non-#shittyTech pair of devices that I can just buy now and hack later??

I’m totally going to end up building my own aren’t I…

@HypathieBlog @Neoresistant ce qui est encore plus navrant, c’est que ce débile laisse tourner les moteurs (à moins qu’on ne puisse les couper en vol?) au risque de blesser ce splendide animal. Faut vraiment que je me fabrique un fusil à gluon, comme dans les Furtifs d’Alain Damasio, pour les descendre lors de mes randos..

#dronehunter #shittytech

Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow)

The lockdown has been a powerful accellerant for shitty technology adoption curve: the combination of an atomized polity that can't have in-person solidarity conversations and overall precarity has kicked off a powerful #shockdoctrine for tech surveillance. 4/

https://nitter.nixnet.services/doctorow/status/1331633107422773248#m

#microsoft #shittytech #surveillance