When dealing with Western actors, this is symmetric warfare. If you are a political party and the opposition impersonates you, you could do the same back.
What concerns me is the asymmetric threat such as posed by North Korean dollar groups. For the uninitiated, this is a real threat but let's for a moment not think about the silliness of present day Communists getting extremely ruthless about stacking cash.
The model I'm concerned about is, say you have a NK hacker group and they make a very, very convincing video of a CEO doing something embarrassing (shout out a former UK PM's alleged porcine initiation ritual) with a view to making cash.
These people are focussed on the bottom line. They could structure their extortion demand to be F.O. money and get paid with little fuss. And do it over and over.
On the one hand the replicability of such attacks concerns me. However I have been considering a future where we are embarrassed or exposed to embarrassing content on an industrial scale.
Embarrassment is a social concept that we all deal with, and deal with it we do. It could be that the AI impersonation mess gets so bad we all become inoculated to this type of content because virtually everyone notable has become a victim already. Could it become the cost of doing business?
Thank you for this comment! I do agree there is an issue with the screen in bedroom situation. It is interesting to hear that people would pay for this as an app.
About changing the colour and otherwise customising themes. Yes.
Indeed TimeChief is a Smart Clock with rich features planning a closed beta early next year followed by open beta. Currently:
* 90s aesthetic theme
* Configuration GUI
* Weather integration
* Google calendar integration
* Retro sound synthesis
Planned
* More aesthetic themes
* More sensors
* More calendar integrations
* More data displays (weather maps)
About USB charging ports etc. This seems like a bit basic. I think everyone is saturated with options to charge things. These suggestions should be remixed to make them more interesting.
I would comment the difference is I have GUIs to set things up, for non-technical users. I did a survey of various projects and found most of them had a configuration step such as "now SSH into the box and input your API key". My mum is never going to do that I'm afraid.
Edit: not to poop on this mode of setting things up, it's good for personal projects but I'm trying to take another step here.
I want the clock on my shelf to be beautiful retro clock hardware. That's my vision. Not an old phone.
There are technical reasons not to do this too. I'd like to add in a thermometer so it can have an indoor temperature display.
I have a cheap non-smart clock on my desk here that has an indoor and outdoor sensor, and it would suck if the much fancier clock I am making can't have that feature. I'm sure you can think of other sensors that would be interesting to have on such a unit.
I have thought about that! You would need custom hardware with a passive buzzer (PC speaker) tho for retro sound synthesis but it's not a huge deal.
My thinking is that clocks are an article of furniture. I think it would look best with a custom case that resembles an old terminal. The overall package is going to be part of the appeal.
I do plan on open sourcing on release so anyone can have at it from a different direction.
Edit: I'd love to make a unit with a genuine CRT instead of merely CRT effects...
My Timechief Smartclock project. I think it is pretty cool and I want to share it with the world, but there is definitely a ways to go before (low-volume) manufacturing of units.
What concerns me is the asymmetric threat such as posed by North Korean dollar groups. For the uninitiated, this is a real threat but let's for a moment not think about the silliness of present day Communists getting extremely ruthless about stacking cash.
The model I'm concerned about is, say you have a NK hacker group and they make a very, very convincing video of a CEO doing something embarrassing (shout out a former UK PM's alleged porcine initiation ritual) with a view to making cash.
These people are focussed on the bottom line. They could structure their extortion demand to be F.O. money and get paid with little fuss. And do it over and over.
On the one hand the replicability of such attacks concerns me. However I have been considering a future where we are embarrassed or exposed to embarrassing content on an industrial scale.
Embarrassment is a social concept that we all deal with, and deal with it we do. It could be that the AI impersonation mess gets so bad we all become inoculated to this type of content because virtually everyone notable has become a victim already. Could it become the cost of doing business?