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Google Releases Glass Kernel Source Code

Posted by samzenpus on from the get-you-one dept.

hypnosec writes "Google has released the kernel source code of Google Glass publicly just a couple of days after the wearable gadget was rooted by Jay Freeman. Releasing the source code, Google has noted that the location is just temporary and it would be moving to a permanent location soon saying: 'This is unlikely to be the permanent home for the kernel source, it should be pushed into git next to all other android kernel source releases relatively soon.'"

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  1. Re:Major source of privacy loss by binarylarry · · Score: 3, Informative

    Protip: When you leave your Mom's basement and go out into the world, you "lose privacy" and so does everyone else.

    If you don't want Google Glass down in your dungeon lair, don't let people bring it in.

    Protip 2: Smartphones are everywhere and have both video and audio recording devices built in, which can be secretly activated by the user! ZOMG!

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  2. Re:Major source of privacy loss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think you forgot two.

    First post from a new account: check
    First post on a thread: check

    If it smells like a shill and it posts like a shill then I'm betting it's a shill.

  3. It's just Linux kernel and driver source by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I downloaded it and it's mostly just a Linux kernel source tarball, complete with HOWTOs and documentation from the Linux developers. And lots of hardware drivers.

    Yeah there's probably Google Glass-specific stuff in there somewhere, but you'd need to be practiced at building the Linux kernel to spot them, because Google apparently decided not to point it out for us.

    1. Re:It's just Linux kernel and driver source by hobarrera · · Score: 3, Informative

      You could diff this kernel with the mainline one and see which files are new.

  4. Re:Major source of privacy loss by TrekkieGod · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is no expectation of privacy in public spaces

    There is where I live. The fact that you do not know what the big deal is, is the big deal. Remember how they got to Big Brother? Not by going to war. They got there because people were not interested in their privacy.

    Or to quote from yet somewhere else: "So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause."

    So I guess you don't live in the United States. I am really concerned about protecting these rights, which you seem to want to constrict.

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