[ExI] Digital Jeeves

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Tue Jul 30 23:11:41 UTC 2013


On Jul 30, 2013 10:05 AM, "BillK" <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Adrian Tymes  wrote:
> > Careful about that "guilty until proven innocent".  It's a very small
step
> > from there to, for example, holding their manufacturers responsible for
> > monitoring your house 24/7 even if they never agreed to it, and thus to
> > holding them liable should a burglary occur and the police weren't
> > immediately called.
> >
> > Some digital Jeeveses could be spying on you.  The potential is there.
> > That's different from relying on them to do so.
>
> 'potential?????  Is 83% potential enough?
>
> <
http://www.darkreading.com/applications/report-83-of-mobile-apps-are-risky/240159151
>
>
>  Highlights from the App Reputation Report are:
>
> � Overall, 83% of the most popular apps are associated with security
> risks and privacy issues.

That means 83% could be doing that.  How many of them actually are?  More
than none, but less than all.  A far greater cause of there being security
risks and privacy issues is mere laziness: there are no eyeballs watching a
particular camera, and there never will be, even if you don't know which
one that is.

It is safe to plan for the negatives of if they all are, true.  But there
are a few positives to being watched...and you can't count on them to watch
you at any given moment either.
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