Jason Bassler | @JasonBassler1

Big Brother just got an upgrade.

Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored, tagged, & analyzed without consent.

One step closer to total surveillance.

[Image: A Ring doorbell camera mounted on a brick wall. A digital overlay shows facial recognition scanning a person's face with grid lines. Text on the right reads “Amazon's Ring Adds Facial Recognition to Home Security” with additional text below.]

6:00 PM | Oct 4, 2025

Source: https://x.com/JasonBassler1/status/1974640686419857516

  • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I was looking to install an electronic lock as a redundancy for the tumbler lock to decrease “have I locked the fucking door” anxiety.

    The problem could be solved with Yale lock. I’d just be swapping the disadvantages of a Yale for the disadvantages of an Electric lock.

    But cool automations are cool, and who doesn’t love a little over engineering?

      • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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        1 day ago

        I know, which is why it’s not going to be my primary lock.

        For someone to bypass my locks, instead of breaking a window, a bunch of things have to come about and they’re all “and” statements.

        First, I would have to forget to lock the door, I don’t typically forget, I just get anxiety about it and it can ruin a nice day. With the electric lock I would be content someone can’t just opportunisticly walk in.

        And someone would have to want to get in my house enough to put effort into it. They’re breaking a window at this point regardless of the locks. Or they’re testing a neighbour’s door, with only one lock.

        And they would have to identify that only the electric lock is active.

        And they would have to have the tools/skills to break an electric lock. Along with the skills/tools to break a traditional lock (if they’re both engaged)

        If any of those statements is false, I would be no worse off, or better off, with an electric lock. If they want in, they’re coming through a window.

        I did think about a Yale as an auxiliary lock, but I’ve run up against it’s advantages (read: locking myself out) more than once. Also, if they can bypass the main lock, they can bypass a Yale, I figure, as it’s a similar skillset.

        “All electronic locks can be hacked” is the same statement as “all tumbler locks can be picked”. I’m guessing you still use one though.

          • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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            14 hours ago

            All my locks are bypassable by breaking my window. All mechanical locks are pickable, some are more easily picked than others. All electronic locks are hackable, some are more easily hacked than others. The electronic lock will be an auxiliary lock.

            My locks don’t look any different between “locked” and “unlocked” states, it’s just a keyhole in a door. A camera pointed at the door cannot tell me if the door is locked or not. It simply doesn’t solve the problem I am trying to solve.

            Here’s an example:

            Is that door locked or unlocked? How did you come to that conclusion? Can we agree that’s an unreasonably good view of a lock for a camera to have and it’s still not possible to tell what state that lock is in?

            Thank you for your input though. I’ll probably be setting up cameras anyway, mostly to dissuade people from breaking my window instead of my neighbour’s. Just doesn’t help with the lock

              • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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                4 hours ago

                The interior of your door cannot be a key lock like that due to code.

                I am one of the dozens of people that do not live in your city, as such suffer different laws. Also my house is older than any such laws. I implore you to think that perhaps I know my locks better than you. The town I live in is mentioned in the 1086 Doomsday book, not saying my house was made in 1086, just giving you an idea of how old things here can be. So again, I’ll ask the question you avoided: is that lock open or closed? You didn’t answer the question.

                Your second paragraph is just telling me things I’ve been telling you. Yes, if someone wants in they’re coming in, the electronic lock isn’t for that, I’ve repeated that almost every comment. So, I’ll ask you a second question: what do you believe the second lock is for? I don’t think you know despite me repeating that ad infinitum too. But thank you, we agree, any lock on my door merely needs to be more inconvenient to break than the window a couple feet away.

                A camera inside the house pointed at the front door can’t be visible to the street and as such can’t act as a deterrent, it doesn’t even solve the problem as you seem to understand it. Again, imagine for a minute, that I know the layout of my house better than you and try not to correct me on this, like you incorrectly tried to correct me on what my own lock looks like.

                This conversation has been frustrating because you haven’t been able to imagine I live in different standards than you (for better or worse), and that I understand my situation better than you do. Also, though I’ve repeated many times you haven’t seemed to have understood the problem being solved. It’s a very narrow problem I’m trying to solve, what is it?

                Good security is a system of layers. No one layer impervious. Adding an electric lock to the front door is adding another layer, it doesn’t have to be impervious on its own. Regardless, as you have finally acknowledged and I have said many times, anyone who wants in is coming through the window, not messing with my door. More security isn’t the problem I want to solve, what is?

                Beyond an electric lock, a keypad lock mostly does what I want it to do. I’ve already mentioned a Yale lock that’ll do the same thing, I’ve been deciding between them.

                I’ll humour you though, here is a lock that’s up to code

                Locked or unlocked? Your solution isn’t right for my situation. It isn’t right for the situation you describe (you can’t determin if the door is locked by camera). It doesn’t solve the problem I want solving. It doesn’t solve the problem you describe (a camera invisible to the street is no added security at all). Please give it up.

                  • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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                    4 hours ago

                    Okay, so that last picture - that knob has 2 positions for locked vs unlocked, which whomever owns the lock presumably would know upon visual inspection. Like how every lock like that works. Are you human?

                    Incorrect, thats my lock it spins more than 360 degrees. I’ll prove it

                    I swapped its state. Is the first picture locked, or the second? How are you distinguishing between the two states. Your arrogance is astonishing. You do not know how my locks look and function better than me it’s strange to assert you do. Once again, locked Vs unlocked are indistinguishable by looking at the lock. Please believe me, it’s getting weird.

                    The rest of that… I go back to my previous point regarding fires and needing a key to exit.

                    What’s my current SHTF plan and why do you believe it’s insufficient?

                    Changing a mechanical lock is simple and I’d never keep a lock like that on my door, along with most normal and sane people who can critically think. Housing codes were written in blood.

                    What’s my current SHTF plan, and why do you believe its insufficient?

                    If I changed it to the above lock, would the first picture be locked? Or the second? Please answer you’ve tried to evade the question a number of times now. I’ve given you the lock you want, I’ve shown you locked and unlocked states.

                    Second question you’ve ignored: what, in you’re understanding, is the problem I am trying to solve? How do seeing intruders faces solve it?

                    You can’t keep ignoring me to assert your position, that’s not a conversation. A conversation is back and forth, you didn’t like the lock, I showed one you like. You didn’t like only having one state, I’ve shown you both. I tell you you’re not listening to the problem I want to solve, you continue to solve a different problem.

                    Quit it.