Tag: security

      Ring faces backlash after its Super Bowl ad

      February 15, 2026 /

      The Ring controversy stems from a Super Bowl ad promoting the company’s new AI-powered “Search Party” feature for its doorbell cameras and home security devices.

      The 30-second spot depicted a heartwarming (to Ring) story: a young girl loses her dog, posts flyers, and then a neighborhood network of Ring cameras scans live feeds using AI to match the pet’s photo to footage captured by other users’ devices. The dog is quickly located and reunited with the family. Ring’s founder and CEO Jamie Siminoff narrated, positioning it as a community-driven tool that helps “be a hero in your neighborhood” and has reportedly reunited at least one lost dog per day since rollout.

      While intended as wholesome and feel-good, the ad triggered widespread backlash almost immediately after airing. Viewers and critics slammed it as “creepy,” “terrifying,” “invasive,” and dystopian. Many argued it normalized or glamorized mass surveillance networks where private citizens’ cameras feed into AI-powered searches across neighborhoods. With all of the current ICE controversy, this really hit a nerve.

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      Cameras, General Gadgets, Lifestyle, News

      Passwords haven’t improved

      January 22, 2010 /

      Password field.It’s rarely news that most people use terrible passwords. There are just so many to remember, and really, no one is all that good at remembering completely random strings of letters and numbers. Recently, though, we got a little more data behind this widely accepted fact.

      RockYou, a widget service for social networking sites, was recently hacked. The hacker retrieved passwords for 32 million accounts, which were stored in a database as plain text, and posted them online. Security firm iMPERVA took a look at the passwords and found some ridiculous stats. The most common password? 123456. That was followed by 12345, 123456789, and Password. That capital P is definitely important.

      iMPERVA esimated that a slow DSL connection could access one account every second using a simple dictionary hack. It’s hard to say whether people would use better passwords on sites that hold more sensitive data, but my inclination would be no. Why add more passwords to remember, even if they’re as simple as Password.

      Source: Ars Technica

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