A massive Chinese campaign just gave Beijing unprecedented access to private texts and phone conversations for an unknown number of Americans Privacy

https://fortune.com/2024/12/27/china-espionage-campaign-salt-tycoon-hacking-telecoms/

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Can't wait for this new trend of "smart pc monitors" takes off. Then we'll have fucking ads and user tracking on those as well.

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u/MumrikDK 3d ago

In the meantime, I find it absurd that they don't all come with light sensors at this point. My phone can be set to at least try to adapt to the daylight on its own, but my fucking monitor cannot? The brightness of the room changes throughout the day, and the preferred brightness setting with it - I don't live in an underground bunker.

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u/IdownvoteTexas 3d ago

Have you thought about converting your surroundings to an underground bunker? Its pretty sweet.

R/battlestations

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u/K_Linkmaster 2d ago

My phone accomishes this one function so poorly that I hope it never touches real computers.

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u/MumrikDK 2d ago

There has to be a way to do it better on a larger piece of gear that isn't in motion, right?

I want to believe.

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u/throwaway3270a 2d ago

My phone is okayish about it, but my tablet is horrible. I mean so bad, I think the devs inverted a bit of code logic so it does the opposite of what it should do.

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u/boraam 3d ago

Samsung has those. Good monitors. Atrocious software.

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u/throwaway3270a 2d ago

Very nearly made that mistake.

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u/pleachchapel 3d ago

Only if you put up with it.

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u/s4b3r6 3d ago

Is putting up with it, how we arrived at ads in the OS? 'Cos those are taking off great. Especially in environments where you're mandated to use a particular OS.

That only makes sense where choice exists. If everyone misbehaves, or someone has an advantage, ya got none.

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u/andrewsad1 3d ago

I also can't wait, because those will sell for cheap as hell too, and I won't connect to them to the internet either

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u/throwaway3270a 2d ago

"This device will not function without a valid internet connection. Also drink verification can to continue."

Seriously though, that'll be the next step. Fucking "subscriptions" to use everyday things like that.

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u/andrewsad1 2d ago

And when that happens, I will TM 31-201-1 pages 78-82