Surveillance culture and unforeseen consequences

[FlammableFlower]

So a groups of hackers breeched surveillance company Verkarda's security had got access to ~150,000 web-controllable cameras.

The Washington Post reports:

The cache includes real-world images and videos as well as the company’s voluminous client list, which names more than 24,000 organizations across a vast cross-section of American life, including schools, offices, gyms, banks, health clinics and county jails.

and

The Silicon Valley company’s hardware connects to the Internet via Verkada’s cloud service, allowing customers to not just watch and store the real-time video from anywhere, but also to use the company’s artificial-intelligence features to track people as they move about the real world.

Verkada’s “People Analytics” software lets customers automatically search for a person across the building or campus — by the look of their face, the color of their clothes, whether they’re wearing a backpack, or their “apparent sex” — then track that person’s movement from room to room.

[Sciolus]

What was unforeseen about a "security" company being sh.t at internet security? Very much business as usual. Or them selling massively creepy and intrusive surveillance gear?

[FlammableFlower]

The combination - that and most people seem to be worried more about government spying.

[Bird on a Fire]

Give me an incompetent, under-resourced government over a ruthless bunch of silicon valley capitalist tech bros any day.

They'll both f.ck up, but the second kind is much more likely to f.ck up in a way that affects me.