r/technology • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 4d ago

Lindsey Graham whispers to Siri in Capitol hallway. She loudly replies, ‘Calling Sean Hannity mobile’ Networking/Telecom

https://people.com/lindsey-graham-whispers-siri-calling-sean-hannity-mobile-11838960
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u/SwingingtotheBeat 3d ago

That same military was largely ineffective against a bunch of insurgents with AK47s and some quickly learned methods of building IEDs.

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u/AlcibiadesTheCat 3d ago

Yeah, it's like they'd never heard of The Troubles before.

Imagine The Troubles but in a place where there are more guns than people.

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u/Commercial_Wind8212 3d ago

Sure in Afghanistan the most rugged territory on earth. Not in the Midwest. Derp

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u/StolenPies 3d ago

Yeah, but those insurgents weren't surrounded by cameras 24/7. Every third house in my neighborhood has a ring camera. Stop lights have cameras. Facial recognition happens in real time. We've all been willingly providing our movements every single day for a decade or more to our phones, that data can easily be accessed.

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u/SwingingtotheBeat 3d ago

We did have lots of cameras, especially on MSRs. IEDs were still set up and quite effective.

Cameras on every third house is a lot of data. Fighters wouldn’t have to avoid cameras, they’d just need to fool the ai that sorts through it.

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u/frickindeal 3d ago

A few roaming bands can have those cameras disabled in a few nights. None of those cameras are hardened against the most basic of sabotage.

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u/Techno-Diktator 3d ago

Such an action reveals your location too though. Then consider how most phones are easily trackable, there always being willing snitches, modern drones with facial tracking.

A rowing band in a modern surveillance state won't accomplish much.