Cybersecurity experts can block malware, what you need is a picture of a goat’s butthole or something technical like that.

I use to work at some major tech companies. Was let go for working with pro Palestine movements within the company that wanted to divest. Anyway, that’s the context of who I am to the below point.

Corporate code is dog shit. There are massive security holes in every piece of software. However, most of its security is maintained by “security through obscurity”. It’s just not viable to brute force these vulnerabilities.

Which is why you constantly get “security updates” to patch in a fix that was found by either (1) someone at the company (2) a white hat hacker that finds the issue and reports it for a fee (3) and actual black hat attack that attempts to exploit the vulnerability for profit of political activism.

Why am I talking about this? Well, when their is working class solidarity, when the people working for the company or outside of that company realize that their interest are NOT in a wage or a bounty. But when their interest are aligned with defeating an exploitative system, that works for the benefits of capital owning billionaires, (1) and (2) will disappear. And (1) becomes a very important point of activism essentially turning into (3). The entire technology sectors security is built on the idea that individual workers will protect the security of the software systems that exploit and invade our privacy. That their wage is more valuable to them than the decline in society they experience.

And the ruling class are not at all concerned or even aware of this massive vulnerability to their entire software and hardware infrastructure.

I’m not saying some revolution will happen this way. Or that the QR code part of the meme is viable. I just know that the systems of surveillance that the state is relying on for control. The “AI” systems they think are the future. They are the hubris that will be a part of their fall. They have no fucking idea how they operate but are placing every bet on them to control an angry working class movement that hasn’t even begun to fight back.

TLDR: Radicalize the Linux nerds

Edit: Wrote this not realizing the sub. Would have wrote it with a more tech focused audience in mind if I had. So, forgive the simplifications.

Alternatively, send them straight to a site that absolutely gets them put on some watchlist. Not as much instant karma as malware, but situationally more useful in the grand scheme of things. (Some kind of government honeypot perhaps, or just phish n’ dox them.)

Begun, the cyberglasses war has.

Snowcrash that shit.

So as someone who works exactly on this, the best way is still exploiting the user. The “QR code scanned” notification needs to look like something useful or enticing so the download or link is opened. The glasses would never automatically download and even execute a binary without the user.

Easiest is probably some PDF reader exploit. There I can see a path of auto download and auto execute with only minimal user intervention. If the PDF has a good title you’ll take the user approval hurdle easy.

Or payment apps. Some users have payments almost automated. Accidentally confirming a payment popup in the wrong moment seems like a viable exploit.

Those things genuinely creep me out and make me want to start wearing a mask in public again.

It is very possible that all store camera apps get an update from Google/Apple etc that bricks the phone or temporarily suspends functionality (also preventing phone locking) on glancing a specific QR code that will be given to all ICE operatives to wear somewhere on their uniform.

Hidden? Oh really? The circles where the temples are attached to the frame of the glasses don’t look like ordinary metal fittings… i see this shit pointed at me – i carefully remove them off owner’s face and… politely explain why i did it? Nevermind