LWN's 2020 vision

Posted Jan 2, 2020 17:50 UTC (Thu) by frostsnow (subscriber, #114957)
In reply to: LWN's 2020 vision by mtaht
Parent article: LWN's 2020 vision

>The recruiter from Roku was all over how their stuff was so heavily used and how little their revenue model depended on the hardware or software itself - which when you are trying to hire a hardware/software guy and you insist on bragging about the stock price instead of quality work.
>In both cases I tried to feign enough enthusiasm to learn more of their plans, and with more encouragement they seemed to assume I too was into it... where secretly, I was getting ever more depressed, and I wished I'd brought a tape recorder to expose their evil plans the minute I got out of there... and damn it I hope someone does!
>After the roku thing... after I hung up the phone, I thought: "I'll never work in this business again." and have been quite unable since to focus on work in the embedded space since.

Was Roku doing any creepy surveillance, or was the recruiter just scummy? One of my parents owns a Roku and I'd love to forward them any relevant information if they are doing surveillance.

LWN's 2020 vision

Posted Jan 2, 2020 22:43 UTC (Thu) by mtaht (subscriber, #11087) [Link] (3 responses)

yes, and yes.

https://tv-watches-you.princeton.edu/tv-tracking-acm-ccs1...

LWN's 2020 vision

Posted Jan 3, 2020 15:31 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

That's a very interesting paper; thanks for posting. I think I will be sniffing DNS lookups and adding some more domains to my Pihole settings.

LWN's 2020 vision

Posted Jan 3, 2020 17:47 UTC (Fri) by frostsnow (subscriber, #114957) [Link] (1 responses)

This looks very detailed, thanks!

LWN's 2020 vision

Posted Jan 3, 2020 20:43 UTC (Fri) by mtaht (subscriber, #11087) [Link]

there are two more twittered here:

https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1177570949710909...