cyb - cyberpunk

>>20350
This is pretty fuarrrked if this is legit, looks pretty legit looking at the sources. How does it connect or choose a network to connect to though? Do you do it voluntarily? I feel like I need to know more than what's written here, but it's concerning. Seeing soykaf like this really solidifies my thought that Cyberpunk is now, just in a way that's less like we hoped it would be, in a futuristic sense, and more in the dystopian reality of everyone being recorded, observed and filed like fuarrrking numbers in a catalog.

Tired of our privacy being invaded by companies under the facade of "protection".

>>20351
It is protection, they are just protecting themselves, not you.

Another article from 2 days ago. The company eventually admitted over 6 million records were released.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151130/13194232947/toy-maker-vtech-hacked-revealing-kids-selfies-chat-logs-even-voice-recordings.shtml

We've been living in a dystopia for a long time now. It's already difficult to find anything other than the lowest end TV that doesn't spy on you. If you want a 4K TV that doesn't spy on you you pretty much have to go with a Korean monitor. Samsung, Vizio, LG, Sony, etc. all spy on you. The only reason Westinghouse and RCA TVs don't is because it's still not dirt cheap. It won't be long till $200 TVs have Smart TV crap as well. The same thing is going to happen with your refrigerator and washing machine. If you don't want to be spied on you'll have to buy second hand refrigerator (eventually there won't be many working old refrigerators on the market) and you'll either need to wrap your fridge in foil or open it and start de-soldering the antennas and microphones and soykaf . There won't be any push back, people will eat it up. Just look at the Snowden revelations. If something of that scale can't open people's eyes I don't think anything can.

>>20351

If you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide. You're not a terrorist pedophile, are you anon?

>>20355
You also don't need to connect it to your wireless network for them to spy on you. 3G antennas are dirt cheap and with ISPs pushing for wireless everywhere instead of having a decent wired infrastructure wireless bandwidth shouldn't be too much of a problem. 24/7 audio monitoring with good codecs only takes a couple kb/s. Data mining is a cash-cow and companies can easily afford to pay AT&T or Verizon $5 a year per device or something like that.

So yeah, the hello barbie has some major security and privacy concerns, and that is a huge problem with it, and needs to be addressed and ensured children are protected from spying eyes. (I'm not really sure why, considering literally everyone is always being spied on, but whatever.)

But I do think there's an upside to it; I think it'll cause the next generation to more readily accept machines, and hopefully robots, androids etc. if they grew up with "smart" toys.

>>20355
I really don't see why people are buying "smart" 4k tv's.
1- who the fuarrrk even watches live tv anymore other than sports and even then it is moving more towards streaming
2-they are all filled with ridiculous amounts of bloatware which could be replaced with a dumb tv/ korean pc monitor and a raspberry pie or other micro pc for a fraction of the cost
3-there is literally no 4k content for it outside of youtube and I think maybe sky has one channel

>>20361

if you think technology gains mainstream use just because of tech and not because of convenience and marketing, you're in for a bad surprise.

That's the reason why people use soykaf tech: because it's there, it's convenient and does a half-good job of what they need.

>>20361

Because no one knows what any of it means, 4K is just marketing. No one knows that you can't tell the difference between 1080p and 4K from 6 feet away or that 4K content doesn't exist or that their internet connection couldn't handle it even if there was or that their Xbox One or PS4 will never be able to play games at 4K or that they could have boughten a better quality 1080p screen for less and it'd look even better for TV use.

4K is for content creators, programmers, and /tech/ spergs, but 4K monitors are expensive as fuarrrk so you're only realistic option is a 4K TV.

>>20355
Shit, you're onto me. Gotta disappear.

But for real, people who say stupid soykaf like that is so annoying. Of course there won't be pushback, people don't care. Which is concerning. Or maybe they would care, they are just not educated in the area/know about it. There's a quote in Brave New World about people eventually loving their servitude, something alone the lines of:

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” The world is seemingly becoming more and more this way. I want out of this crazy fuarrrking world.