EvaAnd lo, as the prophecy foretold, California's digital license plates are totally hackable, giving away GPS location and user info:
https://jalopnik.com/researchers-hacked-californias-digital-license-plates-1849966295
The Lady Parabellum@evacide I'll leave CA before I let the state add a GPS tracker to me - might just finally be the final impetus I need to take my tax dollars elsewhere. There's precisely zero chance... unless I can run Doom on it? ;)
Gen X-Wing@ladyparabellum It’s crazy. It’s something STASI would do. Mass surveillance is the antitheses to freedom and democracy.
@breadbin it's "boiling the frog" here - it slowly gets worse and worse and no one seems to notice.
@ladyparabellum I fear those that notice doesn’t have the pull to make any changes. Especially with two major parties where neither wants to move the needle on this. :(
@breadbin I've found that, with each small additional invasion that I object to, the popular opinion is: "it's a little thing, don't be unreasonable! "
Taking the long view, as The State does, they're all "little invasions" that ultimately equate to everything. That's why I have zero tolerance.
Taking the long view, as The State does, they're all "little invasions" that ultimately equate to everything. That's why I have zero tolerance.
@ladyparabellum Privacy (liberty if you will) and human rights aren’t something you meet in the middle with, they are lines in the sand that will never move.
@breadbin I wish society in-whole agreed with you [us] - they don't. [Everyone] wants to dictate everyone else's life, just to a greater or lesser degree.