A whole network of cameras tracking your every move, logged in a national database that doesn't require a warrant or oversight is.
Police require a warrant to get your phones location data, but they don't require one to ask Flock for your every move. This has already been abused hundreds of times by police and city employees to stalk their ex partners and more..
Drones are an effective tool on an open battle field; but they operate under wildly different conditions. Wide open spaces and short contacts (find target, ram to explode. They don't have to loiter and maintain that contact).
A pepper spray equipped drone in a school???
Tight enclosed spaces with halls and doorways (that are usually closed) you've got to navigate. Quad copters are loud, and that'd be amplified by that enclosed space. Without sufficient distance to keep out of reach they'd be an easy target to take down by the assailant. To use the spray, you'd have to get near, deploy it, and escape before being struck down; giving the spray to the assailant to harvest and use.
the keys are stored on the TPM and can't be exported
Makes sense; if you can export them, so can an adversary.
now the adversary demands access to your backups
Only if they know/think they exist. The idea here would have been to make a nondescript offline backup of the keys and keep them totally seprate from the rest of your data/belongings. Possibly in a geocache type location.
Both. Wipe the real keys so they can't read it if they do a more invasive look into the device; but present a clean profile to the dumb cop that entered your duress pass, to curb suspicion.
I tried to carve out a space where those people and other rougher edges were not drowning out niche communities and hobbies and where people who choose to use the platform to harass others were also out of sight, out of mind.
All he had to do was make his own instance, where he can defederate from/block whoever he likes. Let users decide if they want to be a part of it.
Good intentions don't justify bad actions, and abusing the trust instilled in you as a developer of a popular tool is rarely taken lightly.
Imposing your own personal opinionated blacklists on other peoples platforms without their knowledge and consent was never going to go well, no matter what your intentions are. ESPECIALLY in the fediverse; a system built to prevent exactly that behaviour.
The DDOS code however....
Frankly that should be considered criminal. This dev should be facing jail time for that alone.
One camera isnt the problem.
A whole network of cameras tracking your every move, logged in a national database that doesn't require a warrant or oversight is.
Police require a warrant to get your phones location data, but they don't require one to ask Flock for your every move. This has already been abused hundreds of times by police and city employees to stalk their ex partners and more..
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