This would have been easily solved by being able to shop online with a gift card or perhaps BitCoins and no requirement to give your name. Name the product something obscure, put it in a box and viola, privacy achieved.
Of course it would be better if nobody cared that you purchased a pron magazine (who am I kidding it's free online), but the problem is, people with the most influence don't have those values, and through the chain that becomes your problem as well if you're trying to be employed or otherwise make a business deal.
I mean shit, if one gets evil stares for being Muslim (Thank you T.V.) we have a long way to go to evolve socially, but technology surpassed that change indeed. Again, I blame the media, basically Viacom and the Murdoc empires, so like 5 people in the end.
And to think I had to move to a city in the past to live with impersonal strangers who wouldn't piss on me to put out a fire. Today you just use Facebook and Google, how convenient.
All bodies of power are joining this party of clipping everyone's ear with a GPS like marine life under study. To know what everyone's up to without them knowing, creating these "patterns of life", God the arrogance. Lady Justice is wearing night vision goggles equiped with x-ray. LOL I just love how this is being sold as progress. We could have done this back in the 90s, we didn't, because we knew it was wrong.
Eeeeexactly! Privacy is not this difficult concept to explain, it's simply "things I don't want to communicate", and I do believe that to be a right and just a basic function of sanity in a society with laws.
It's not impossible to build these devices for security. The problem is that we can't take out the battery and all of these apps trying to report every activity to a cloud somewhere. We had camera phones before, and it worked just fine. Until the information sales went totally out of control and it became common practice for even your wallpaper to upload your pictures, along with the NSA where the Internet became centralized. We need laws which strictly warn users what information is being sold on the market and exactly which company knows what about the person. The problem is people quietly collecting our information. Can you tell me everything Google knows about you? Which companies shared that information? Until this trend reached law enforcement nobody cared, but now it's an issue.
So if I told you, we're doing an intelligence reform, and we are creating a new industry standard in management and security. You might be interested. However if I told you I'm proposing a new system where I can see everything you do as the superior and you can't see anything I do, it would sound a bit more like what I'm proposing is to install cameras around the office, cameras you can't see.
The idea really is making management impersonal, manage everything like a facebook page, click a button to fire employee x. That's really what has happened here in the last decade, it has nothing to do with privacy being an illusion. If I covered my house in led, privacy wouldn't be an illusion. All that suggests is that people are uninformed as to how many people are able to take away your privacy, which is a very real thing.
In the good old days if I went to a home video store and asked to buy other people's home movies, chances are the owner would call the police on me. Today it's business, and it's wrong. But at least here we are talking about it. It's pretty clear to me however.
10 years. 10 years it took for people to be okay with no privacy. Just... wow... The thing is, people signed up for Facebook because it was MORE SECURE than myspace, nobody really thought eventually that information will be sold in the market when signing up. The ones who ran the service knew, but it's a clever ruse. Nobody could legitimately explain this business model to their grandparents without getting odd stares. "You mean the peeping Tom looking through the keyhole is a millionaire now? Get outa here"
Also, Snapchat said THEY won't store your data. They said nothing about selling your pictures to someone else, they still wouldn't be storing it, couldn't say the same for the business deal though. Nobody needs to be smart to hack people's personal information anymore, you just need money.
Remember the good old days when it was only serial killers interested in home videos of other people?
Now here's a bit from George Carlin:
Here's Some Fun: Go into a photography shop and ask the man if you can buy the puictures of the other people in the window. Say. "How much for that heavy-set couple?" I guarantee they'll stare at you a long time. In fact, they might even back up several feet.
QRCode videos. A new way of controlling data flow where the range is the range of the camera. Imagine you go to a midnight release, the ads come up and says, do you have our ____ app? Point it to the screen now to download a sneak peek of our upcoming movie. You're walking past the car repair section of your favorite super market, an ad alerts you, want to save money on all your car repairs? Sign up now, using _____ app to download our pamphlet. Wouldn't you want to be the guy who owned the QRCode Video reader app to sign up with all the advertising agencies? No internet connection? No problem.
Anyways, I thought this was a good idea, felt like sharing.
Unfortunately, I don't think you could count on steganography. YouTube transcodes, resizes, and manipulates the raw video fifty ways till sunday - whatever information you've stored in the frames could easily be lost or corrupted.
In the case of using YouTube for this, you are right. In the case of using this method for advertisement you are wrong. QRCodes can recover up to 30% of data corruption, which is exactly why this was chosen. Take out the encryption, add in parity files and viola you have a MovieGoesApp, scan here to see the latest preview for the upcoming Batman movie! Possibilities are endless.
Using this technique one could easily store 10GB of data to be available anywhere in the world
It's a fun little hacking project for sure, but I would not call this "easily" when you have things like dropbox or google docs to store, you know, actual files in.
Very true. The point to be made here is that YouTube is technically also the same service, doesn't matter if you are hosting a website for audio storage, you are a data storage cloud. This is a minor headache for YouTube, and a valuable opportunity for the advertising industry.
ROFL This cracked me up. To store it in YouTube, is very stupid. It's not very stupid if you consider nobody can download apps in those video ads in WalMart. You walk past an aisle, a voice alerts you, "Would you like to download our social app? Point your smartphone here to begin downloading." There is one market for the app which downloads QRCode videos, and another for all the products they sign up with. There is money to be made here if you can look at it with the right glasses.
Slashdot Mirror
That finger Uncle Sam is pointing at us... something doesn't smell right.
I'd rather buy glass.
Resistence is futile.
Hats off.
Hear hear.
This would have been easily solved by being able to shop online with a gift card or perhaps BitCoins and no requirement to give your name. Name the product something obscure, put it in a box and viola, privacy achieved.
Of course it would be better if nobody cared that you purchased a pron magazine (who am I kidding it's free online), but the problem is, people with the most influence don't have those values, and through the chain that becomes your problem as well if you're trying to be employed or otherwise make a business deal.
I mean shit, if one gets evil stares for being Muslim (Thank you T.V.) we have a long way to go to evolve socially, but technology surpassed that change indeed. Again, I blame the media, basically Viacom and the Murdoc empires, so like 5 people in the end.
Pretend to Care 2.0
Because screw thinking, we'll leave that to professionals. They'll feed you like a penguin.
And to think I had to move to a city in the past to live with impersonal strangers who wouldn't piss on me to put out a fire. Today you just use Facebook and Google, how convenient.
Get off facebook. It's a bad addiction.
Beware of strangers with free gifts. Oh but it's no stranger, it's your family friendly cousin Google.
All bodies of power are joining this party of clipping everyone's ear with a GPS like marine life under study. To know what everyone's up to without them knowing, creating these "patterns of life", God the arrogance. Lady Justice is wearing night vision goggles equiped with x-ray. LOL I just love how this is being sold as progress. We could have done this back in the 90s, we didn't, because we knew it was wrong.
Eeeeexactly! Privacy is not this difficult concept to explain, it's simply "things I don't want to communicate", and I do believe that to be a right and just a basic function of sanity in a society with laws.
Yea, it's like we're all spies now. That's what happens when you give spies carte blanche.
It's not impossible to build these devices for security. The problem is that we can't take out the battery and all of these apps trying to report every activity to a cloud somewhere. We had camera phones before, and it worked just fine. Until the information sales went totally out of control and it became common practice for even your wallpaper to upload your pictures, along with the NSA where the Internet became centralized. We need laws which strictly warn users what information is being sold on the market and exactly which company knows what about the person. The problem is people quietly collecting our information. Can you tell me everything Google knows about you? Which companies shared that information? Until this trend reached law enforcement nobody cared, but now it's an issue.
So if I told you, we're doing an intelligence reform, and we are creating a new industry standard in management and security. You might be interested. However if I told you I'm proposing a new system where I can see everything you do as the superior and you can't see anything I do, it would sound a bit more like what I'm proposing is to install cameras around the office, cameras you can't see.
The idea really is making management impersonal, manage everything like a facebook page, click a button to fire employee x. That's really what has happened here in the last decade, it has nothing to do with privacy being an illusion. If I covered my house in led, privacy wouldn't be an illusion. All that suggests is that people are uninformed as to how many people are able to take away your privacy, which is a very real thing.
In the good old days if I went to a home video store and asked to buy other people's home movies, chances are the owner would call the police on me. Today it's business, and it's wrong. But at least here we are talking about it. It's pretty clear to me however.
NO!!!! Stop it! You're directing your anger to the wrong location. The police AND the people are pissed that they are being tracked.
10 years. 10 years it took for people to be okay with no privacy. Just ... wow ... The thing is, people signed up for Facebook because it was MORE SECURE than myspace, nobody really thought eventually that information will be sold in the market when signing up. The ones who ran the service knew, but it's a clever ruse. Nobody could legitimately explain this business model to their grandparents without getting odd stares. "You mean the peeping Tom looking through the keyhole is a millionaire now? Get outa here"
Also, Snapchat said THEY won't store your data. They said nothing about selling your pictures to someone else, they still wouldn't be storing it, couldn't say the same for the business deal though. Nobody needs to be smart to hack people's personal information anymore, you just need money.
Remember the good old days when it was only serial killers interested in home videos of other people? Now here's a bit from George Carlin: Here's Some Fun: Go into a photography shop and ask the man if you can buy the puictures of the other people in the window. Say. "How much for that heavy-set couple?" I guarantee they'll stare at you a long time. In fact, they might even back up several feet.
QRCode videos. A new way of controlling data flow where the range is the range of the camera. Imagine you go to a midnight release, the ads come up and says, do you have our ____ app? Point it to the screen now to download a sneak peek of our upcoming movie. You're walking past the car repair section of your favorite super market, an ad alerts you, want to save money on all your car repairs? Sign up now, using _____ app to download our pamphlet. Wouldn't you want to be the guy who owned the QRCode Video reader app to sign up with all the advertising agencies? No internet connection? No problem. Anyways, I thought this was a good idea, felt like sharing.
Unfortunately, I don't think you could count on steganography. YouTube transcodes, resizes, and manipulates the raw video fifty ways till sunday - whatever information you've stored in the frames could easily be lost or corrupted.
In the case of using YouTube for this, you are right. In the case of using this method for advertisement you are wrong. QRCodes can recover up to 30% of data corruption, which is exactly why this was chosen. Take out the encryption, add in parity files and viola you have a MovieGoesApp, scan here to see the latest preview for the upcoming Batman movie! Possibilities are endless.
This guy sees what I'm talking about :) Mod this guy up!
Using this technique one could easily store 10GB of data to be available anywhere in the world
It's a fun little hacking project for sure, but I would not call this "easily" when you have things like dropbox or google docs to store, you know, actual files in.
Very true. The point to be made here is that YouTube is technically also the same service, doesn't matter if you are hosting a website for audio storage, you are a data storage cloud. This is a minor headache for YouTube, and a valuable opportunity for the advertising industry.
Interesting. Verrrry iintersting... but also stupid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qf6Sv3A9zs
ROFL This cracked me up. To store it in YouTube, is very stupid. It's not very stupid if you consider nobody can download apps in those video ads in WalMart. You walk past an aisle, a voice alerts you, "Would you like to download our social app? Point your smartphone here to begin downloading." There is one market for the app which downloads QRCode videos, and another for all the products they sign up with. There is money to be made here if you can look at it with the right glasses.