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Doxing Strangers + Mexican Cartels and Timeshare Cybercrime + Facebook’s Big Password Fine

2024/10/16
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Researchers combined Meta Ray-Bans' live-streaming capabilities with a facial recognition service to create a tool that identifies strangers in real-time. This tool, called IXRay, raises significant privacy concerns as it can provide detailed reports about individuals simply by capturing their faces.
  • IXRay combines Meta Ray-Bans and facial recognition software.
  • The tool can reveal personal information about strangers in real-time.
  • Researchers built IXRay to highlight privacy risks, not for public use.

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A chatty chat episode where we discuss a Harvard research project turning Meta Ray-Bans into facial recognition hardware, an Irish court case resolution on a password breach, a live-action roleplaying game solved basically while we were talking, and much more.

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