I think I see the problem

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Literally, if the government had simply watched with their eyes instead of their interrogation techniques, no one would have had any idea they were on a list much less sued about it and gotten it declared unconstitutional.

Definitely not a private washroom

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The lack of privacy is why you don't put men and women in the same washroom. Unisex is fine so long as it's one person at a time, and frankly the one-at-a-time washrooms are better because they have superior privacy.

Will schools learn their lesson?

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Of all the organizations that could benefit from learning this lesson, a center for learning is one we might even expect to be capable of learning this lesson. Learning is kind of their reason for being, after all.

So hopefully, now that a bunch of schools have been hit by ransomware and it's become clear that they're desirable targets, maybe other schools will do the necessary thing and take care of their systems before someone takes them out.

Kids follow boat thieves with drone

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Technology can certainly be empowering, and this is a prime example and it shows that ordinary people (kids even) now have the power to do something that previously you would have only heard of the police doing - that is take off in pursuit of a criminal from the air. They didn't need a helicopter or a licensed pilot or any of the other resources associated with police choppers, they just needed a high-tech toy.

But hopefully not for much longer

from here

Imagine an online scam involving 80 people. It's huge!

Someone got a private showing

found on The Meta Picture

I suppose it's possible that what was going on here was open to the public, but I suspect it was not. I just wonder if this was before or after the public came through.

And I'd be concerned about the ones that are

from here (source article)

This kind of location data seems like a stalker gold-mine. You might be inclined to think that things are different for gay male hook-up culture, but gosh it seems to me that group has people after them too.

RFID rings

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RFID implants can open doors and unlock devices, and unlike a key card they don't need to be carried around, can't get lost or forgotten, and are generally just more convenient.

Some people are OK with getting chipped like livestock, or a pet, or inventory in a warehouse). Others might balk at the idea, since it's traditionally used for things that don't have agency or autonomy - and if it's associated with your job then having a symbol of your employer invading your body may be troubling. There's also the matter of it's relative permanence not being able to reflect your changing wishes (not unlike the problems with recording sexual consent on the blockchain).

Well, it just so happens there's a way to get similar convenience in a more socially acceptable package. There are many different varieties and styles from many different manufacturers (the above is just an example from the folks at Adafruit), and they are far more removable than anything embedded inside your body.

Best practice meets worst practice

from here

For all the good XKCD did in teaching people to use passphrases, they went and cancelled it out by using MD5 to hash them with. MD5 has been deprecated for over 20 years, and it was never good for passwords.

Thanks to Have I Been Pwned for raising awareness of both the breach and the bad practice.

Come and get it, porch pirates

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Anyone who's shitty enough to steal other people's packages deserves to get shit.