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Getting the chassis would be hard, usually that's not a "part". But you could by a second hand/wrecked car and refurbish it with parts. It will be expensive and not easy, but possible.

Any idiot and chatgpt could knock up an overt always listening app in an afternoon. I have no doubt shady apps already can do this. Its not hard or expensive. (Backend storage and audio processing costs are a different kettle of fish, and I think those make this fairly prohibitive as well, but that's a funding problem, not a technical problem.)

But as soon as they make the claim that it doesn't trigger the microphone LED on iOS and Android, across all devices, then that's a "technically hard" problem. That's multiple zero days across multiple devices. Its just not feasable for an ad tech firm. They would never be able to recoup that investment.

I'm happy to be proven wrong, but so far all the researchers in the world have found nothing.

So I'm attributing near 0% chance that anyone outside of nation states have the later tech (device agnostic covert audio recording).

The capabilities TLAs have costs hundreds of millions of dollars to develop, and once caught, are worthless. TLAs are extremely careful with their toys to avoid them being caught.

This Adtech company is claiming to have something at that level, which they are deploying everywhere. If it existed, it would have been found the day after they announced it, the security researcher industry would be all over it. They are very intelligent people who do understand those devices inside and out, if it existed they would find it. Remember, these are the same researchers who frequently out actual TLA tools.

You can't prove a negative, so it definitely is a probability thing, but I put the probability at basically 0 that they have what they claim.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/no-a-marketing-firm-isnt-tapping-your-device-to-hear-private-conversations/

The capability they were claiming to have would make a three letter agency very excited. If they truely had the ability to listen to your microphone, transparently without notifying the user, they could sell that tech to every regime that wants to snoop on people, for millions of dollars.
Instead they claim to be using it for Ad-tech, where if it existed, would make it trivial to discover and flag as malware.

Apple and Google would also be very keen to find and squash whatever loophole let's them record without showing the notification.

Its just an extraordinary claim, which if true would have been exposed/validated by security researchers long ago.

Not disputing the three letter agencies, but there is zero evidence that that ad company ever had the tech or ability. They were/are just full of shit.

You really don't want tests to prevent voting. They will be used entirely for voter supression.

Even better, it makes your rejection explicit. Someone who doesn't nake the effort to turn up to the polls isnt worth chasing their vote. Someone who turns up and says "Y'all shit" is a swing voter who can be swayed with the right policies. (Of course this all requires a healthy democracy without geremandering fuckery).

This was pretty clear when observing the output of tldrbot. It would just randomly select paragraphs, ignoring surrounding context, and call it a summary.

I did read it. All of those conditions have been experienced by humans, just perhaps not in a lab controlled study.

My problem is the clickbait headline. Its a bad headline.

The "first time"? Maybe in a controlled environment, but certainly not the first time. People already die from heat exhaustion around the world.

Also, the deadly factor really seems to be time rather than heat and humidity. Saunas are 65-90c with very high humidity and those are generally fine as long as you don't stay in too long.

Unsafe doesn't let you just ignore the borrow checker, which is what generally tripped me up when learning to write rust.

All good, I did misinterprete what you were trying to add :)