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by samstave 1923 days ago
Yeah this company can fuck itself, eat a bag of dicks and hopefully die.

I don't want to live in a world of surveillance such as this and anyone working for this company should down-right fuck off.

We already built a surveillance system that is too vast.

go fuck yourself:

Source: I helped build tracking tech for Lockheed, was the personal tech trainer for Tom Ridge when he joined the board of Lockheed and used to go to his house

I was also director at [company] when my team built all the Vizio, Samsung, LG spying tech into your Television... [Real-time screenshots from your TV, what you are watching and other data] ((kill your smart TV))

Yeah - it sickens me and this company can get fucked.

I am so tired of growing up in a world where I read science fiction in the 80s and thought "wouldnt it be cool if" and then helped make this dystopian nightmare of surveillance that we now live in.

Any engineer working on this crap should not be proud of the genie they just released from that bottle.

You know whats fucked up is that the biggest social media company has car tracking around its HQ and it reports lic plates back to the municipal city government...

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It doesn't sound like you're in a very strong position to condemn them, then.
What better way to open your eyes than be inside the belly of the beast?

People can grow and have regrets.

I used to have this neighbor who worked at Loral. Designing spy sats...

We used to have this "language" whereby I would ask him a question while he washed his car.

If he washed left (wax on) it was 'yes' - if washed right 'wax off' it was 'no'

So I would ask him all sorts of questions about the capabilities of the spy sats loral was building and through that simple interaction, was able to learn a lot about sats...

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I have never uttered this story before.

It sounds like you have grown much and now are one the good guys. Job well done.

Did he tell you anything juicy?

Clever. And I bet you learned a lot more about those than you ever imagined.
People can grow and have regrets but immediately telling everyone else doing the same thing you were just doing to rot in hell is a little much.
THIS! and these regrets eat deep.
I hope you can successfully grapple with those, my friend.