Comment on Baby monitors and smart speakers enabling abuse, say MPs
thepixelfox@kbin.social 10 months ago
Of course they had to mention the online safety bill. Fuck off with that one, it's not 'to protect the children.' it's for control and spying on everyone.
Smart gadgets can be exploited yes, but where do they stop? No privacy. Certain tech banned? Complete open policy where we have to let the gov see everything like our private messages, bank statements, listen to our calls, implant a chip in us so we can be tracked on the off chance we refuse to use technology they can track?
This government is going crazy with the antiprivacy bullshit and it feels like this is going to be another 'we need access so we can be sure people aren't being abused' lie, so they have more ways to spy on everyone.
Smart gadgets can be exploited yes, but where do they stop? No privacy. Certain tech banned?
I’d guess that smartphones are the bit of high tech most commonly used by abusers but they can’t come after them, yet…
First they came for the baby monitors…
I used a one that was a camera and a screen you plugged in near your bed. No app. No outside access. I didn't trust the app ones.
But it's still not up to anyone what people purchase.
It just sucks that assholes use something simple like baby monitors to be assholes.
They'll come for the phones, eventually. When they're emboldened by people falling for their 'for the children' rhetoric.
Melpomene@kbin.social 10 months ago
So basically their solution to baby monitors and other IOT devices being vulnerable to exploit is to... pass bills that undermine the very principle of encryption? Sounds about right for the group of idiots in parliament.