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jig

join:2001-01-05
Hacienda Heights, CA

reply to MyDogHsFleas

Re: accidental?

if you read what i wrote, i'm assuming that it wasn't accidental, because 1) it was purposefully written, 2) it was installed on the street view mobiles, 3) it was enabled, and 4) it's much scarier that it may have been accidental.

if it's accidental, did they also accidentally upload it in the raw to someone who is less... open about using it?
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MyDogHsFleas
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said by jig:

if you read what i wrote, i'm assuming that it wasn't accidental, because 1) it was purposefully written, 2) it was installed on the street view mobiles, 3) it was enabled, and 4) it's much scarier that it may have been accidental.
"Intentional" is not the same as "not accidental", by a long shot.

if it's accidental, did they also accidentally upload it in the raw to someone who is less... open about using it?
Well, (a) that's awfully far-fetched, and (b) who cares? your conspiracy theory is amusing because the consequences of it being true aren't even bad.


jig

join:2001-01-05
Hacienda Heights, CA

1) i don't think you realize how much sensitive information is passed unencrypted.

2) under the law, if you put everything in place for something bad to happen, and it happens, there's no difference between you purposefully setting it off at some particular time and it just magically getting set off somehow without your further influence. it's especially true when there's a rube goldberg machine type series of events that have to be coordinated, like here.

and, like i said, a truly accidental enabling of the module is fairly scary, because it's indicative of a lack of control. it's not far fetched to infer from one instance of lack of control that there have been others.
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