Technology

It’s a terrible thing that’s happened, but fuck gadgetreview for that shitty misleading clickbait headline.

Editor knew they wouldn’t get the same impact with “teacher posted in a group chat that they were going to shoot a student”, so “group” becomes “private” and the detail about the threat gets moved way down into the article body. This is a journal who clearly wants to tell you what to think.

This is so disturbingly common. Remember the dad that sent a picture to his son's pediatrician?

And in any other country that may have been correctly classed as a joke, but in the US it ain't a joke. What a dystopia

Time to tell everyone to uninstall their apps.. Oh, wait. We already did that.

Very disturbing, it was the last straw to switch my chats (besides family) to Signal.

I had held onto Telegram for years because of their fun animated stickers, but yesterday discovered that Signal has those too, actually all sets from Telegram are available on unofficial Signal sticker sites, so now I'm all sorted 😅

So the lesson to the rest of us is DO NOT USE SNAPCHAT especially for private messaging.

I use Signal, was pressed to do so by privacy-minded friends and have pressed other friends to adopt the client.

So long as you don't accidentally include Jeffrey Goldberg in your chat, you're okay.

The duality of AI....one stops nonexistent threats another one happily puts you into danger

Questions for the ridiculous number of people on here who are perfectly willing to give up their right to privacy because you believe it makes schools and other places safer:

Have you read the 50+ page user agreement for your cell phone company? How about the user agreements of every app that has access to your cell phone, your PC mic or apps that have access to your files? Late model cars have microphones too, as do TV remotes. Microsoft has access to everything on your Windows PC. I'd give 100 to 1 odds that 99% of you haven't read any of those user agreements OR the UA for private chat apps you are using. Likewise are you sure any cloud storage you're using isn't scanning your documents for forbidden phrases?

Since you haven't read every word of each and every user agreement and think it keeps schools safe, you should be just fine with the fact that EVERYTHING you say or write may be available to law enforcement, even if you're talking to yourself while sitting on the toilet in your home. If you mutter that you'd like to kill someone or burn something misheard as a school building to the ground you are just fine with AI flagging it and the police knocking on your door in an hour, right? You'll also be just fine with losing your career and your job never being able to find another one, right? Right? After all, other people never know WTF someone dangerous and violent is going to do.

The number of people on here who are perfectly willing to give up all their rights and have their private communications monitored for something that is nothing more than security theater is unbelievable.

I'm glad this person's life was semi-ruined by using big tech.

I am tired of normies using horrible platforms and then acting Pikachu-level shocked when they have horrible privacy violations.

Tech illiteracy + Big tech exploiting tech illiteracy = profit and constant surveilance

and normies are too damn stupid to get it, and every once in a while one of them gets fucked, and then... suddenly... nothing changes yet again

and these normies with their acceptance of any TOS, even the shittiest of shit, and making opting out some sort of social misstep, like "What?! You really don't use WhatsApp?" with an ugly look, means I am glad these assholes occasionally suffer for their ignorance