And that's why you shouldn't connect that stuff to the Internet in the first place...
silberwoelfin
joined 3 years ago
Of course it is not about security. The moment that legislation becomes active, anybody doing anything they are screening for will move on to some other communications platform. There will never be a way to control/screen all communication, and there will always be a new, covert communication channel be found for anybody who does not want to be listened to - even if that is PGP-encrypted carrier pidgeons or something. The only people that will be listened to, that will be watched are the "normal" ones, the ones that "don't have anything to hide". And they will have to painfully learn that actually, they do have something to hide. Otherwise, humanity would not have invented toilet doors.
Except for if you buy multiples of one item, e.g. a box full of 12 milk kartons, and then have to manually input the amount by pressing the plus icon on screen 12 times...
And except for when the hand scanner shows you the correct item number and amount to be paid when you press "Pay now", but then the self-checkout inexplicably "loses" some items, shows you a different amount, asks an employee to check your cart, and you get accused of trying to steal...