Even better, a group should cut down several dozen of them and mount them all on poles outside his house during the night, so that he wakes up to them in the morning. No vandalism, no violence, no threats, just a blunt statement that the media couldn't possibly ignore.
Heck, no need to even risk collecting that many real ones. I hear there's some fairly decent 3D printed fakes available.
Care to tell me where that gullible userbase is coming from?
They're not all gullible. A lot of VC types are obsessive gamblers, they'll throw money at anything that sounds like it might have a high return.
Pray, tell - what do they come for?
That's where the marketing comes in. Elon is pretty good at selling these big ideas, making them sound futuristic and world-changing. He not only sells those ideas to VCs, but also to the government. A lot of his businesses have pulled in substantial government contract money. The public rarely gets any return from those tax dollars.
A lot of it has to do with over-promising and under-delivering. The rest is marketing.
That's worse, not better. Ignorance of the danger is not an advantage.
SYAC: no pictures of the actual vehicle in this article, just stock images of Flock cameras. How incompetent of a journalist do you have to be to fail to include a picture of the thing your article is about?
Here is an article that actually shows the wrap on the car:
https://www.techspot.com/news/113418-cybersecurity-researcher-covered-toyota-ai-generated-pattern-confuse.html
It looks like this:
And here is a link to the mentioned Kickstarter campaign, which the Yahoo article also fails to provide:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/norecognition/norecognition-ai-adversarial-clothing/description
The campaign doesn't mention the car at all, which is a little odd. You'd think they'd be using the media attention.
I also want to share a link to a previous post about this project:
https://piefed.social/c/privacy@lemmy.world/p/2288321/anti-flock-anti-ring-ai-adversarial-clothing-demo-d-blackhat-defcon
My opinion is still the same as in that discussion - I don't think a static pattern is going to be effective for very long.
Eh, maybe buy the assets after they file for bankruptcy. Better to do it at the state level than federal though. I'm sure there are several state governments that could use a server hardware upgrade.
Ah, of course, sportsball.
People actually subscribe to Peacock on purpose?
Wet, or old dry and musty?
I just want to have control of my data!
Google:
Then you provide the enemy with ammunition.
They claim that the purpose of the cameras is to prevent crime, and that the people who oppose them are violent extremists. They've even tried to label deflock.me as a terrorist organization.
Don't provide the enemy with ammunition.