The creepiest conference I ever attended wasn't a cybersecurity conference with some leet new hacking tools. It was an educational data mining conference back when I was still doing AI work.
I sat in a room with maybe a hundred people and listened to a panel of data miners bemoan the fact they couldn't have biometric sensors strapped to kids 24/7 so they could study all of the physiological responses to education/educational environments over the court of the day. There was no sense that the children deserved any kind of privacy.
I think about this conference *a lot*. It's one of the reasons I got out of AI back in the early 2010s and shifted focus into security.
Rob O :verified: /
npub1hq…gpxge
2024-05-21 22:30:10
Author Public Key
npub1hq3hx0nkk5l2gtp3ec00q9sf64pyxzvma9tkxg5350qt2qljfgqssgpxgeSeen on
wss://relay.nostr.bandPublished at
2024-05-21 22:30:10Event JSON
{
"id": "7ffa57432042483357463602228d62bc173033adc6d4b2e686b6648c856b7883",
"pubkey": "b823733e76b53ea42c31ce1ef01609d54243099be957632291a3c0b503f24a01",
"created_at": 1716330610,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"proxy",
"https://infosec.exchange/@nerdpr0f/112481442913179632",
"web"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://infosec.exchange/users/nerdpr0f/statuses/112481442913179632",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://infosec.exchange/users/nerdpr0f/statuses/112481442913179632",
"pink.momostr"
]
],
"content": "The creepiest conference I ever attended wasn't a cybersecurity conference with some leet new hacking tools. It was an educational data mining conference back when I was still doing AI work. \n\nI sat in a room with maybe a hundred people and listened to a panel of data miners bemoan the fact they couldn't have biometric sensors strapped to kids 24/7 so they could study all of the physiological responses to education/educational environments over the court of the day. There was no sense that the children deserved any kind of privacy.\n\nI think about this conference *a lot*. It's one of the reasons I got out of AI back in the early 2010s and shifted focus into security.",
"sig": "61780ed37fbf7f8390162af527e1c9a8b0f0159f17ba82e99d5297981ddeb6f54922d044ab0923927ea13e70ef615938f3e807cdfab0863984c67233acf1cee6"
}