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How I Lost My Google Glass (and Regained Some Faith In Humanity)
Nerval's Lobster writes "The winter weather made my hands numb. I was distracted, rushed, running late to a meeting. Put those two things together, and it's a recipe for disaster,' Boonsri Dickinson writes in her account of how she lost her Google Glass unit. 'The cab had already gone two blocks before I realized my Google Glass was no longer in my hand. I asked the driver to swing back around to where he picked me up; I retraced my steps along the snowy street to my apartment, looking for my $1,500 device. No luck. Total panic.' The device featured photos, video, email, and other data that, in the wrong hands, could seriously upend her life. Fortunately, the person who found the Glass unit was a.) more interested in returning the device than wrecking her existence, and b.) engaged in quite a bit of digital detective work to track her down (with some help from Google). 'The device holds more than enough data to make me nervous about the possible voyeuristic invasion of my privacy, and the fear of the thought that the media connected to my Glass would possibly end up online, somewhere, cached forever in a Google search,' she concluded. But the saga also reset some of her faith in humanity."
I see dice is hiring the same 'writers' that work at those new bastions of internet journalism.
This article has not restored my faith in Slashdot
Would you bring somebody else's camera into your own house?
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
Funny how your only worried about your privacy here...
I misplaced my cell phone the other day. It also upended my existence. Then, I found it and restored faith in myself. In other news, some bears crapped in the woods.
"The device featured photos, video, email, and other data that, in the wrong hands, could seriously upend her life." She's carrying data around on a mobile device that could seriously upend her life? I don't even store that kind of data on my home laptop in the clear. It never ceases to amaze me that people store sensitive information unencrypted on small mobile device. One word: TrueCrypt.
Then there would be no worry about your oh so precious life ending up online.
You would think that a device you're supposed to wear as a pair of spectacles would be less loseable than a phone. If they're so inconvenient that you wind up carrying them around by hand instead of head and lose them, what's the point exactly?
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
Got an invite to purchase Google Glass last week. I was excited and had almost made the purchase before my coworker made the observation that if I wear them anywhere in downtown Rochester NY there is a good chance I will be mugged. I guess the moral of the story is until they make it not obvious that I am wearing $1500 on my head that this is probably an impractical accessory for anyone living where crime is at all prevalent.
"Stupid Git Loses Thing, Good Samaritan Returns It" isn't really what I'd call front-page headline material... if it is, society is far more fucked than I previously believed.
OH, the 'thing' was Google Glass? Well, that changes everything, doesn't it?
Side note: If the person who found them "engaged in quite a bit of digital detective work to track [the stupid git] down," What gives her the impression they didn't clone everything on the device before handing it back over?
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
honestly. when I saw the headline "how i lost my google glass and regained some faith in humanity" I assumed it was about a person who lost his/her google glass and came to his/her senses about how awful it is to wear those everywhere.
"'The device holds more than enough data to make me nervous about the possible voyeuristic invasion of my privacy, and the fear of the thought that the media connected to my Glass would possibly end up online, somewhere, cached forever in a Google search,' she concluded. "
So she has a device that can essentially record, upload, index and publicize the activity of others without their consent and she's worried about her privacy. Oh, sweet irony, how have thee forsaken the narcissist hipster Glassholes?
No, we must get a grant to study reusable cloth diapers for wild bears. They might resist at first, but with sufficient resources and some principles from attachment parenting, we could find a method to get this to work. Then all we would need is a grant to study the proper brand/supplier of these reusable diapers only to give the contract no bid to a company that dumps them in an illegal landfill in the woods.
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
The story here is that every slashdot reader would have (a) looked for porn on the device (b) downloaded any personal information and then put it up on the internet just to be an asshole and point out how "insecure" the device is and then (c) sold it on ebay.
As it was, a real human found her device and got it back to her. The sad part - everyone posting here pretty much confirms that they would have done the above three instead of being a good human and giving it back.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
You actually do make some good points, and I've found that the majority of people really aren't douches. My issue with the original post/story was that it seemed like this piece probably belonged somewhere else besides Slashdot. After all, most readers here live/breathe/eat tech on an insider level, to where we have a tech life, as opposed to a tech "lifestyle." We generally engineer the hardware and software that other people write about and use. The psychological dependence on tech, in that losing an item would be such a traumatic experience, is not something many of us necessarily identify with. Most people here are cognizant enough about the issues of security and trust that it really comes sense nature to use not to leave our data in a vulnerable state. At the most, we're reduced to the physical loss of the item, as opposed to feeling like we're losing control of our lifestyle because of it. Truthfully, I can see the same sort of connection with the anger over Beta -- Slashdot represents a very niche and unique perspective (again, people whose life, not lifestyle, is tech) and trying to alter that brings a great deal of discomfort because of what someone is trying to imply about us.