Here ya go …
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Why confuse the software, when you can let it recognize you as someone else?
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Here’s another reason for keeping your (Covid, ski, Guy Fawkes) mask. Camera-equipped glasses look up the faces of people near you, some app runs the likely face match person thru all the lookup services, and sends your phone a profile of the person with name, address, relatives, social media items, jobs stuff, etc from anything they have online. Near real time…
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Because not everybody has a Hollywood movie budget 
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This problem exists because most people either don’t care or aren’t paying attention and have their face and info all over the internet. As far as I can tell, the glasses don’t do anything special that couldn’t already be done with a phone. The following entry already exists in the wiki and should prevent these meta glasses from identifying you:
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And don’t let everyone you do business with take your picture or scan your driver’s license.
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Right, the no-scanning is also in the wiki.
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Today I learned, among other things, that a spoofed email can pass SPF, DKIM and DMARC:
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That you can’t trust anyone. 
Good to know.
Although I’m constantly on do-not disturb mode except for people on my whitelist. Anyone else ends up on voicemail. Saves a lot of interruptions through the day.
But I didn’t understand a few things. If they’re calling you, how would they have you authorize the account recovery process? I don’t think a simple, yes do it to an AI phone number would do anything. Or would they ask you to read them a code google just sent you or ask you to OK a google notification? That trick is pretty old.
Also why would anyone pick up a google call for account recovery? Why not first check if you still have access. And check if they sent recovery/activity notification to your recovery email address. If you have access and feel paranoid, check the activity log. If someone did, change password and figure out how they got past your randomly-generated long password + 2FA authenticator app. But again, if you do have access, why do you need them for account recovery? Nothing makes sense to me in that scheme.
P.S.: I loved the suggestion to ask the AI to sing you a song… We need a “prove that you’re not a robot” method just like all these websites asking you to find stairs, traffic lights or motorcycles…
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I’ve had to do something similar recently, since the number of spam calls I get increased. I use the Google Voice call screening feature, where anyone not in my contacts must announce themselves before it rings my phones. Seems to be working, no spam calls made through since I enabled it.
Yep. This is just a better way to try to convince you that they’re legit. Once you’re convinced, it’s probably back to old tricks, which you might overlook if you’ve let your guard down.
Most people might not, but scammers only need a small percentage to fall for their tricks. And now that the bait can be automated so well, that percentage will probably go up, at least temporarily.
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I didn’t factor the automation part. They could use the AI until someone bites then potentially have a human helper to close the deal while not wasting time on the many who will hang up.
So in case of AI call, if it’s trained properly, would it not just comply and announce themselves the same way they do when a human picks up?
It could. If and when we get there I’ll go with your solution of sending all calls from non-contacts to voicemail. Assuming Google doesn’t figure out how to detect AI voice and provide a new option to block it.
Your cell phones had a back door for the Feds to spy on you, but China figured it out and can continue to spy on you (or more likely senior business or government figures) currently.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/02/china-spying-telecom-trump-harris-fbi-cell-phone/
A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of U.S. broadband providers, potentially accessing information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized network wiretapping requests.
Verizon Communications, AT&T and Lumen Technologies are among the companies whose networks were breached by the recently discovered intrusion, the people said.
The widespread compromise is considered a potentially catastrophic security breach and was carried out by a sophisticated Chinese hacking group dubbed Salt Typhoon. It appeared to be geared toward intelligence collection, the people said.
It’s either secure or it’s not, no exceptions for the government.
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If you voted and you don’t live in a state that protects you, you’ll probably find yourself here:
This should be illegal everywhere. My opinion is that all laws related to public records must be updated for the internet age. You want to see someone’s public records? Visit their local public records office, in person, but do not make any copies (maybe with an exception for some law enforcement purposes).
As it is, all our shit is online for the whole world to see.
This reminds me of the ads prior to the election that seemed to be aimed at the “neighborhood.” It talked about how all of your neighbors and friends could easily see if you voted. It was accompanied by dramatic music, but the deep voiced narrator wasn’t quite the threat that he attempted. I heard this on two Charlotte rap/urban stations. I don’t listen to them often, but they’re programmed into my radio. They popped up within 5 minutes on one and ten minutes on the other.
I read that someone somewhere figured out (or alleged, I don’t know all the details) that simply telling people that their neighbors voted is supposed to encourage the viewer/reader to vote. Supposedly it works better than just telling someone to vote. That’s only meant to increase participation. The ads you mentioned do sound ominous, they’re not really supposed to be threatening. Unless someone figured out that threatening people with this works even better? Like all your friends are gonna know you didn’t vote, so you better vote or else you’ll have some splainin to do. LoL 
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No, it isn’t. It gives the impression somebody is watching you and you better go out and vote.
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Even though this information is already available on the secretary of state websites in many states (including voters actual DOB not just age), I think this information should be something you need to actively opt-in to allow publication. Otherwise access to this information should be reserved to law enforcement, statistics research, and election officials. What’s the case for giving access to the general public and publishers as to whether you voted and your party affiliation?
Although party affiliation may be hit or miss for independents. They likely use party registration and in which primaries. Either way, in our family of 4 voters, it was less accurate than a monkey throwing darts (3 out of 4 wrong).
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Here in California, the State mails out ballots to every location in the state with minimal effort to verify a voter lives there. The “right wing” website is probably trying to clean up the mailing list.
Although California voters are supposedly protected from disclosure you do not need a “right wing” website to tell The Internet that you voted. The state provides a website that does it
If you’re registered to vote in California, you would enter the California residential address zip code
used when you registered to vote. To check the zip code you are registered to vote at, view your
voter registration information at VoterStatus.sos.ca.gov.
The only way to provide reasonable ballot security is for everyone to vote in person only on the election day and to provide picture voter ID. The Democrats resist any attempt at securing the election. Recall Biden claiming that George’s common sense changes were Jim Crow on steroids and they got major league baseball to cancel the All-Star game in Atlanta because the law was supposedly discriminatory.
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