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Your ring camera is being used to abduct your neighbors
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this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2026
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This post is fantastic for 2 reasons:
It's so important to raise awareness of how these 'conveniences' like the Ring Doorbell are being turned into the chains that will bind society
This post includes an in-image cite with both text url and a QR! This should be standard on any image post like this.
Well played.
Now you got me thinking of how the convenience of having a source url can be turned into the chains that bind society. One might be able to do something with state controlled centralized DNS I guess.