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I don't like giving companies the meta-data to do contact-tracing, because the market is quickly pivoting to make huge profits off of the technology, with a strong disregard for the mid-term consequences.
It's not even the privacy concerns I'm worried about, I'm only worried about enabling governments to identify dissidents in a novel way. What if it gets used to contact-trace minorities? You could, in theory, identify and target any minority; information that can be used to push almost any political agenda.
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Yeah...I see holes....
Let's start with #1.
The "only on your device" is something you won't know. They also said you can recreate your GUID so that means the police can recreate your GUID.
Then...when you get diagnosed as a COVD carrier and you smoosh the button...who's to say your phone won't scream at every other phone in the office...or the 120 kids are in your class...? Let's shut down businesses!! When this "6 foot" rule is being incorrectly applied as a cure all.
The 6 foot rule came from an study on airplanes of "how close is too close" and they found that less than 6 feet for more than 10 minutes was too close. They didn't come up with any graphs that showed that 7 feet for 12 minutes is safe. They are finally starting to figure out now that all you have to do is walk through an area where an infected person has breathed and you can get it. No sneezing or coughing needed. It sounds like COVD has a very high replication rate so even a small viral load can overwhelm your antibody production.
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Using the app is not the problem.
Someone can build a simple scanner that records all GUIDs in a given area.
Link that say, to a camera and now you have a face with the GUID.
The next time you see that GUID, you can look for a face.
That GUID is specific to a phone/person.
Remember the WiFi trash cans in London ?
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Well, to get back to the original subject/proposal;
Anyone see any holes in this?
One of the big problems I see, is that BT is also working through glass and through plexiglass screens. So the "near for 15 mins" parameter should somehow account for that.
I broke my head over this, the last couple of days, but couldn't come up with a solution. Anyone?
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Apparently the Australian tracking app doesn't track location, but they can't release the source code to prove it because "security reasons".
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That's not how security works...
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I'd rather die as a free man than live forever as a slave.
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I'd prefer not to die at all
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Actually, I've heard the Google plans to slipstream the tracking application as essentially an OS update.
Truth,
James
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... a 2020 planner!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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you can still plan your travels to the kitchen, etc.
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Nope. I'm banned from opening the fridge...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Johnny J. wrote: Nope. I'm banned from opening the fridge... So you need to plan even more carefully.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I was going to say a bathroom scale.
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Given the experience most of us are having with 2020, it's probably classed as pornography. Or animal husbandry. Wifery. Whatever.
Software Zen: delete this;
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... Relative Importance[^]
Seems about right, except for the lack of BACON.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Got an earlier version with toilet paper peaking, I find the drop back to normal in April in your graph even better.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Seems about right, except for the lack of BACON.
and patience!
Young enough to know I can.
Old enough to know I shouldn't.
Stupid enough to do it anyway!
JaxCoder.com
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I dunno - round here patience appears to be improving.
I went food shopping this morning, and nobody seemed to have a problem with an orderly queue to get in, or with slow people who browse the shelves instead of taking a shopping list. (Though one lady who decided that the "direction arrows" in no way applied to her wasn't popular)
And the lack of queues to pay and leave was good.
In some ways, it's better - it slows down the whole "experience" and makes it a lot more relaxing. Odd but true.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I was more referring to the posts that say; "You can stay shut up in your house afraid to come out but I'm not going to be shut in any longer"!
and of course the ones that won't stay in because it's a way for the government to control them.
Young enough to know I can.
Old enough to know I shouldn't.
Stupid enough to do it anyway!
JaxCoder.com
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Or because they are too stupid to put the health / lives of others ahead of their need for a belly load of beer in the sun ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Yep
The beaches here reopened on a limited basis; for a few hours in the morning and evening for; walking, running, surfing, but you can't lay can't he beach. And the beaches were packed the first day.
You can do anything you want but you pay for everything you do!
Young enough to know I can.
Old enough to know I shouldn't.
Stupid enough to do it anyway!
JaxCoder.com
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OriginalGriff wrote: Seems about right, except for the lack of BACON.
They also forgot: chocolate, cakes, biscuits, crisps and nicotine.
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That's because it's a constant, so why bother including it?
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Perhaps cola is boogieing around its modern interaction? (6, 10)
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