I used to mildly follow the biohacking scene a bit over a decade ago.
Lots of stories of DIY implanting an RFID chip into your hand or finger … and mostly a whole bunch of stories about infections, a few about ‘wait the battery died now i have to dig it out’ … basically just learning the hard way all the lessons actual medical implant designers learned 30 or 40 yeats prior.
For now, our cyberpunk dystopia is gonna be mostly low tech, inexpensive jerry rigged solutions with as little high tech as necessary.
Why do you think anyone that actually knows anything about cybersecurity laughs at the idea of having a ‘smart home’ filled with easily hackable or just self-bricking bluetooth doodads?
I saw a post a few hours ago about Seattle officially turning on its AI camera system.
People saying ah yeah, tear em down Seattle!
… these would in all likelihood be the same people that would have their phones on them while they do this, with wifi and gps and bluetooth all actively pinging out their exact identity and location to every nearby wifi hotspot/router and cell tower… and cop cars with a stingray device that acts as a mobile spoofed wifi/4g/5g man in the middle attack that sniffs all your data as it passes it back and forth to a real data source…
…unaware that gait analysis (exactly how you carry yourself when you walk or run) is a far more reliable way of fingerprinting a person than facial analysis, in the context of a surveillance system…
The simplest solutions are often the best.
Leave your phone at home, and get some glasses frames with bright IR emmitters. Not guaranteed to work against higher end cameras, but against most surveillance cameras? Bright enough IR light will just make you a giant glowing white spot.
Lots of stories of DIY implanting an RFID chip into your hand or finger … and mostly a whole bunch of stories about infections, a few about ‘wait the battery died now i have to dig it out’ … basically just learning the hard way all the lessons actual medical implant designers learned 30 or 40 yeats prior.
To me this soundness like madness, perhaps even a little bit of degeneracy (in the functional meaning of the word, the intent isn’t to primarily use it as an insult).
Why do you think anyone that actually knows anything about cybersecurity laughs at the idea of having a ‘smart home’ filled with easily hackable or just self-bricking bluetooth doodads?
I do a lot of DIY project with my SBCs/Raspberry Pi and I am not simply not comfortable opening up my services to the wider internet. They all stay on a local network.
The very early biohacking scene did indeed have a lot of insanity.
A few people definitely learned the hard way that uh, oh, maybe I shouldn’t have made an incision right there, now I have permanent nerve damage.
As for your own at home setup… yeah, you are what I would consider ‘someone who actually knows something about cybersecurity’, as opposed to the vast majority of morons who just read a buzzword or some corpo nonsense marketing and then proudly proclaim its all fine and secure because big corporation that makes a baffling amount of money from dataharvesting would never lie to me!
I used to mildly follow the biohacking scene a bit over a decade ago.
Lots of stories of DIY implanting an RFID chip into your hand or finger … and mostly a whole bunch of stories about infections, a few about ‘wait the battery died now i have to dig it out’ … basically just learning the hard way all the lessons actual medical implant designers learned 30 or 40 yeats prior.
For now, our cyberpunk dystopia is gonna be mostly low tech, inexpensive jerry rigged solutions with as little high tech as necessary.
Why do you think anyone that actually knows anything about cybersecurity laughs at the idea of having a ‘smart home’ filled with easily hackable or just self-bricking bluetooth doodads?
I saw a post a few hours ago about Seattle officially turning on its AI camera system.
People saying ah yeah, tear em down Seattle!
… these would in all likelihood be the same people that would have their phones on them while they do this, with wifi and gps and bluetooth all actively pinging out their exact identity and location to every nearby wifi hotspot/router and cell tower… and cop cars with a stingray device that acts as a mobile spoofed wifi/4g/5g man in the middle attack that sniffs all your data as it passes it back and forth to a real data source…
…unaware that gait analysis (exactly how you carry yourself when you walk or run) is a far more reliable way of fingerprinting a person than facial analysis, in the context of a surveillance system…
The simplest solutions are often the best.
Leave your phone at home, and get some glasses frames with bright IR emmitters. Not guaranteed to work against higher end cameras, but against most surveillance cameras? Bright enough IR light will just make you a giant glowing white spot.
Harder to do gait analysis on an amorphous blob.
To me this soundness like madness, perhaps even a little bit of degeneracy (in the functional meaning of the word, the intent isn’t to primarily use it as an insult).
I do a lot of DIY project with my SBCs/Raspberry Pi and I am not simply not comfortable opening up my services to the wider internet. They all stay on a local network.
The very early biohacking scene did indeed have a lot of insanity.
A few people definitely learned the hard way that uh, oh, maybe I shouldn’t have made an incision right there, now I have permanent nerve damage.
As for your own at home setup… yeah, you are what I would consider ‘someone who actually knows something about cybersecurity’, as opposed to the vast majority of morons who just read a buzzword or some corpo nonsense marketing and then proudly proclaim its all fine and secure because big corporation that makes a baffling amount of money from dataharvesting would never lie to me!