I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location, Browsing Data, Photos, and Spams You with Ads

Bebo , 10 months ago

This is just atrocious.

Retiring , 10 months ago

It’s a bit rich for a site that uses about 200 „legitimate interest“ cookies to complain about chinese practices.

jarfil , 10 months ago

“But”… are they Chinese cookies? /s

01189998819991197253 , 10 months ago

No one wants Fujian cookies! Haha

Fizz , 10 months ago

Stuff like this is why I handle all technology for my family.

acastcandream , 10 months ago

I feel like I need a stipend at this point

reflex , 10 months ago

Stuff like this is why I handle all technology for my family.

😏👍 Gandalf vibes.

soulfirethewolf , 10 months ago

Exactly. If you don’t, they’ll try to cut corners and wind up with something bad

XTornado , 10 months ago

Uhm… do you have space for another family? Can I send them your way? I hate being the technical guy… specially because somehow in the modern world suddenly a big amount of people lost the ability to read and understand text on an screen, and not just when there is technical jargon or long terms and conditions, just normal simple text.

AbstractifyBot , 10 months ago

TL;DR of the linked article

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Click to expand> An iPhone to HDMI adapter was discovered that, when plugged in, runs a program prompting users to download an app. This EZ Cast app collects extensive personal data and sends it to China for ad targeting. It requires location access, photos, and installs tracking cookies. The adapter appears designed to mimic official Apple products. While its intentions are unclear, it demonstrates how such devices could enable privacy risks by introducing untrusted software into a user’s devices. Analysis of a similar EZCast dongle found it was vulnerable and not designed with security in mind. Reviews complain the app is useless or a scam. The adapter may have originated as unsold Amazon returns later acquired by electronics recyclers.
> Its existence relates to concerns about privacy and navigation issues on online marketplaces.

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Lightrider , 10 months ago

Fucking capitalists

Marsupial , 10 months ago

Spoken like someone who cant handle innovation.

bermuda , 10 months ago

innovate me harder daddy

Darkrai , 10 months ago

Capitalism invented inventing things lol

Edit: my favorite capitalism invention https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

marco , 10 months ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbhRrLuy0tc

DeForrest_McCoy , 10 months ago

It’s shit like this that really just makes me want to start the Butlerian Jihad for real.

someguy3 , 10 months ago

What’s that?

OneCardboardBox , 10 months ago

Universe-wide destruction of machines “designed to do the work of a human mind”.

It’s the reason why there aren’t any computers in the Dune novels.

Grimpen , 10 months ago

Better start training the Mentats.

displaced_city_mouse , 10 months ago

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains.

The stains become a warning.

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion

flicker , 10 months ago

I used to drink a lot of juice of Sappho when I was a younger woman and it never left a stain.

lauha , 10 months ago

You want to destroy all machines because capitalists are greedy? Shouldn’t we do something about the capitalists instead, and leave innocent machines alone.

jarfil , 10 months ago

Some post-humanist trends propose extinction as a fair way of achieving that, since it seems like greed is an inherent part of human nature.

XTornado , 10 months ago

I am a bigger fan of Project Mayhem, well except the fighting stuff between them.