Comment on It can be harder to surveil private conversations if everyone just used sign language.

Aedis@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s the equvalent of using ROT13 for encryption. Doesn’t do anything. They could literally build an automatic program to convert it back to the intelligence agency’s language.

  Sign language can literally avoid the data from being picked up microphones, doesn’t even need encryption if they never have any data to work from. (Just remember to either leave the phone in your pocket or place an object over it to cover the camera)

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  • Aedis@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If the big companies have a necessity to spy on you to make money, they’ll throw buckets of money at development towards being able to capture key signs or movements in sign language to spy on you.

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  • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    ChatGPT claims to be able to translate to and from Sindarin. (I can’t speak Sindarin, so I can’t verify its output.)

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