Turns out that increased surveillance doesn’t make people love their oppressors.
Israel’s only answer for Palestinians is “the beatings will continue until morale improves”.
I’m blocked from the article, but as someone who used to work in the industry I’m going to hazard what I think is a safe guess, and which is an under discussed aspect of intelligence.
If you put 5 cctv cameras in the worst parts of the city, you can pay someone $20/hour and have them monitored 24/7. The person’s one job is to call in a crime when it occurs and vector in police. As long as they’re not terminally addicted to instagram, you have that area covered.
Bump that up to 10,000 cameras and you run into a problem. You’re not going to hire 2000 people to watch them. You’re going to try to come up with something clever, maybe, that allows you to track back to a crime that was otherwise reported, but real time responses are out the window.
Even those that supported the development of the levels of surveillance that Snowden exposed have to acknowledge that looking at everything means you’re looking at nothing. The signal to noise ratio goes to absolute shit. It’s actually worse than useless because you’re thinking you’re monitoring, but you’re really not because you’re drowning in noise. It’s like they teach every yuppie in B school - if everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority. There’s a known phenomenon in defense and intelligence to center in on the gee whiz aspects of technology and lose sight of the actual mission.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist and as much as I dislike the current government of Israel, I don’t think this was some kind of nefarious plot. I think it was a massive fuck up thats going to have a body count in the tens of thousands and that will change the history of the region for a decade.
Considering how much of the article is early analysis, I think you did about as good of a job summarizing it as some of the people within the article did, if not better.
And regarding whether the conspiracy angle should be held up… I don’t think it is. But there’s a huge gap between saying Bush did 9/11, and saying the US propped up Osama Bin Laden before he became terrorist number one. And likewise, a huge gap between saying Netanyahu knew about the upcoming Hamas attack, and saying Netanyahu supported Hamas in a tactical sense.
AI will watch us all effortlessly soon.
Did you read their comment? AI will still produce noise. That’s the point
Yeah I understand your opinion, but I have no doubt that AI will not drown in noise at all, just like it’s not drowning in noise now when it’s scanning billions of web pages.
Monitoring billions of people in real time and watching for patterns will be very easy. For some reason, people think we are going to have today’s AI in the future. :) It’s like they can’t imagine what computers were like 20 years ago, or 50 years ago. AI will accelerate even more because it can work together with other AI around the clock to reach exponential evolution.
It will connect to everything, our phone signals, cars, credit cards, medical records, movement patterns… This is really simple for AI.
There are patterns to everything we do. We wake up similar times, we drive similar routes, we talk in similar ways, we dress in similar ways… All that stuff will be monitored automatically.
You may think it will become too many signals but Ai will also handle looking at the signals. It’s not going to be people looking at this data until someone is flagged, and the algorithms will become better and better.
Okay… that’s a pretty bleak picture.
Sooo… how do we beat AI surveillance?
I know, sorry… Can’t help but be honest about these things.
We can’t beat Ai survellience I think. People will get used to it but we won’t be happy.
You will have a citizen score and if you speak up, it goes down and you get flagged as trouble. This leads to all sorts of issues with getting loans, jobs etc etc. So nobody will do anything. We will not even complain because it may be picked up by cameras and microphones installed everywhere we go “for our security”.
I know, sorry… Can’t help but be honest about these things.
It’s fine… it’s not your responsibility to come up with answers to these things.
But we’re going to have to find ways if we don’t want our children and grandchildren growing up in bombed-out open-air prisons as well.
Yeah I would love if we do.
Well, there are some hurdles to overcome first. Power consumptions for training is huge but maybe solve able in the future. Data storage for all kinds of metadata? Maybe, big data is a thing but also needs power. Streaming many devices to distributed data lakes? There will be a Problem. Data plans are mostly limited, streaming drains power of phones etc. Not very attractive for the consumer. My prediction is, that we’ll see personal AI assistants, they work on your phones or with home stations. Remind you of dates, motivate you to work out, help you write a letter, turn on the light, heat up the stove etc. The neat part is that this personal AI primary operates locally, so even with 6-7 cameras in and outside your home you won’t get any problems with power or data plans. The companies providing this service will not have to provide huge storages and computing power. But, they’ll be able fetch data, apply new algorithms to your personal assistant and collect their subscription fees.
That solutions gets us by the balls. It has advantages and only slight to none inconveniences for the light minded. So peoples, companies and States will thrive that this comes true.
Sry for some spelling or orthography mistakes, I rarely type and speak english.
AI produces noise. Just ask all the people who were arrested because of faulty AI
“Palestinians are subjected to multi-layered surveillance,” says Mona Shtaya, a non-resident fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy. “Various surveillance technologies are employed against Palestinians, including drones, mobile bugs (spyware) that have previously been uncovered as being injected into electronic devices prior to entry into the Gaza Strip.”
Shtaya adds that CCTV cameras are placed at entrances to the Gaza Strip, and that there is “continuous” online surveillance of people in the occupied areas. “It would not be an exaggeration to say that Palestinians are under surveillance in nearly every facet of their lives,” she says.
Fat lot of good that did.
Fat lot of good that did.
Probably made a lot of shareholders in the military industrial complex pretty rich though.
Also, consider the amount of time groups like Hamas and PIJ have had to build an underground tunnel network to move people and armament near the border, for sudden large attacks just like two weekends ago.
Hamas has been in power since 2006, with any and all local government resources at their disposal, they can move a lot of stuff without any prying eyes seeing anything.This sounds like an extreme example of a policy only targeting the innocent. The average Palestinian trying to cross the border into Israel is going to be surveilled far more than a Hamas agent in an underground tunnel, are they not? (In the same way, after Israel called various atheistic humanitarian groups in Palestine “terrorist” groups and forced them to disband, only the actual terrorist groups dared remain…)
It turns out that, in extreme circumstances, if you have nothing to hide, you truly do have everything to fear.
Hamas has used fake Facebook accounts to lure Israeli soldiers into downloading data-stealing apps, and has distributed fake dating apps that are really spyware
Nice
More likely shows the lengths the corrupt PM of Israel and the Dictator of Russia shall go to to distract from their issues.
“Various surveillance technologies are employed against Palestinians, including drones, mobile bugs (spyware) that have previously been uncovered as being injected into electronic devices prior to entry into the Gaza Strip.”
Got a source for the preloaded spyware claim?
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I mean… that’s my attitude, but replace “in Gaza” with “on Earth.”
Lol, accurate.
Isn’t that pretty much the goal of Israel’s genocide?
In other words, “If I was being genocided, I would want to speed things up”
So you’d bow down to the desires of your ethic clensing occupiers? Having children is seen as defiance.
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