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Comment on ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows

You watch too much tv. All you need is to degrade the quality of the recorded video on any camera exposed to the public internet enough for ai to have divergent results due to how ambiguous the images captured are. There are thousands of hobby projects that let you browse actual feeds from such cameras and usually that means you can get hardware metadata and in most cases change how the video is recorded by patching the driver running on the already publicly accessed cameras. Why make an exaggerated strawman argument while at the same time pretending you know better than everyone else?

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Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This article says it is local cameras installed by local police that are being used for ice by the local police department.

Claiming anonymous could do anything about it by poisoning AI models is absurd. Then you call out the skeptic for watching too much TV?

Anonymous hasn’t ever done anything significant in 10 years They dos’ed Israel last year. Did it do anything? Was one less Palestinian killed?

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- formulaBonk@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Ahh yes the local police! An infamous bastion of web security, IT infrastructure, and thinking long term. Who could ever crack the default passwords on their IT setup? How could we ever hope to social engineer these above average intelligence elite local cops into plugging in a usb drive to their work computer. This is all definitely impossible, no local police branch has ever been a victim of ransomware so we know for sure it can’t be done and deserves all the cynicism and comparisons to Hollywood movies from the 80s.
  
  Of course we also know that by “anonymous types” I meant that one specific group of people you have in mind who did that one thing 10 years ago and not just socially conscious programmers with basic knowledge of social engineering and web infrastructure. That would be a ridiculous thing to mean of course.
  
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  - Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    It’s your claim that Anonymous would do anything when they won’t and do it by AI poisoning that’s absurd.
    
    If your initial claim was, “It would be a shame if someone hacked their local police.” it wouldn’t have sounded like you just watched Mr. Robot.
    
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NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Which is not an “ai poison pill”

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- formulaBonk@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That’s fair, you probably won’t brick their ai model but it can make it useless for that particular camera output.
  
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  - NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Which… is basically worthless because of just how many cameras there are out there.
    
    A “fun” exercise a couple buddies and I did a few years (… decade?) back was to just use an afternoon of plugging python packages together and scraping county traffic cam feeds to track someone, with their consent, over a few days. And it was ridiculously easy to get their schedule down basically day one and even get a LOT of data on who they were seeing or where they went after parking just based on when and where the car “disappeared”.
    
    And that is just publicly available traffic cameras. Not the giant mess of speed and red light cameras and all the other crap we have in a modern surveillance state.
    
    So even if people are climbing traffic poles and midlining over to the actual boxes to smash them? Those are even less of an issue than normal outages from rain on a windy day.
    
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    MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    In 2003 a friend and I were brainstorming what the next big disruptive tech would be and how we might get investment to start a company based on it. My conclusion at the time: cheap digital cameras. 22 years ago they were already cheap and high resolution enough to kill the film camera industry, and they’ve only continued on through today with color night vision, etc.
    
    He did finally get investment and start his own company: automating regulatory paperwork for small companies that would be swamped in it without help.
    
    Meanwhile, networked cameras are approaching “smartdust” levels of ubiquity. It’s like living around the time of Gutenberg and seeing the world relatively smothered in printed text leaflets, hundreds of times as many pages of text in less time and for lower cost than scribes. The changes have only just begun, and people aren’t really aware of how fundamentally life has changed as a result.
    
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