Deborah Rose ❌👑Israel used the Iranian police state's own surveillance cameras to kill Khamenei. Here's a stunning example of why you don't want massive surveillance apparatus in your homeland. Iran, police state that it is, has cameras everywhere. Israel pawned them. 1/3
They built tools to track the movements of not just the leaders, but their drivers. Face recognition, licence plates, all the tricks. Social network analysis. They got to learn the patterns of all the drivers, who they were likely to drive, what it meant when this person went there. The stuff that Anthropic doesn't want the US military to do with Claude? They did stuff like that. So they knew where they were, and where to bomb, and when the time was right, they bombed. 2/3
So here's the lesson for all those wanting to build large networks of surveillance gears and cameras, who like how these can be used to monitor and control a population. Some day, no matter how good you think you are at securing them, somebody will be better. And they will use your police state tools to kill you. 3/3
~ Brad Templeton, Financial Times
AdeptVeritatisAnd if you didn't make friends by then, you will be alone. Very alone.
Friends as in friends. Not supporters for your case. Supporters for you.
But you won't have them when building large networks of surveillance gears. Because nobody can ever trust you.