Op has over 3800 posts in under a year. Yikes. Either bot or one smelly keyboard warrior
Comment on Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 month ago
Clickbait warning. This has nothing to do with the Meta smart glasses.
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 1 month ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Eh, they probably just have a feed and post a bunch all at once. I’ve seen other posters do something similar. Creating 10-15 lemmy posts/day isn’t particularly hard if you’re literally just copy/pasting links from an RSS feed.
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not saying it’s difficult nor all that time consuming. If you are creating 10+ posts a days, rss feed or not you need to revaluate your free time. Essentially you’re attempting to sway the opinions of strangers online, all day everyday there’s no other reason for that as my posts other than attempting to sway others opinions. And that’s fucking lame dude
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I think it’s just attention grabbing, the same thing that motivated people to do it on Reddit (having people recognize your username). I doubt OP is putting a lot of thought into what gets posted (i.e. no agenda), they’re merely looking for lots of engagement.
PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
it is annoying when they do that; i would, however, venture that these glasses probably give people a way of doing things more surreptitiously, even though this article doesn’t explore that
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 month ago
Yeah, they mention that it's unsuspicious glasses by the look. We'll have to see what this comes to... When google introduced their Google glasses, people got yelled at on the streets, at least as far as I remember.
nutsack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t think anyone actually got yelled at for wearing them. they were pretty rare to see. I know people who wore them all the time
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 1 month ago
One disabled guy who posted about it got physically attacked and his glasses broken.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So exactly like browsing facebook in the early days?
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
How does that automatically dox people? I have a load of photos of people who I got in the background. I don’t magically know their names.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 month ago
they do some reverse image search on the internet and find your facebook profile or similar things.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Not that I have a Facebook profile, but even if I did that, would only give them access to information that I made public.
Doxing requires you to release information that you otherwise would keep private.
It won’t let them know my bank account details or my home address or my medical history or anything like that.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 month ago
Yeah, as I said it's clickbait and not "proper" doxing. What I've been annoyed with are old newspaper articles. Sometimes you'll find some articles with a picture and a full name citing some sports achievements from when you were 17 or did some public activity with the boy scouts or some other club. Usually including pictures, full name and location. Which isn't great and you have less control over that than over a facebook or linkedin profile...
Sometimes an employer also has a "the team" page on their website with mugshots of everyone. That can be used to annoy people, stalk them or call the employer and so some nasty stuff.
I usually don't tell people my last name. Or I write pseudonomously on the internet, to make doxing a bit more complicated. And I don't post pictures of myself. That's all I can do. And quite some years ago I tried contacting some reverse image search providers. But it was difficult to get them to get rid of the pictures.
nutsack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
so, reverse doxing?