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Grrl Power #1327 - Booty duty peeper creeper
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You can tell an alien likes you when she installs advanced space encryption on your phone for the purpose of secure sexting. Even if she thinks of you as a himbo nitwit. Of course, her general opinion is that humans and most other races are lame, so her thinking of you as a nitwit is less a targeted insult, and more of a general racial narcissism. Which is just racism, really. It's not like there are a lot of racists that think some race other than their own is the superior one. >cough<
I honestly couldn't remember if I'd already shown that Sydney's space glasses had a zoom function, but there's no way that wouldn't be a function of super advanced space glasses. I only question if I've shown it before because I vaguely remember linking this video before, showing a modern smartphone zooming way out from a windmill from a plane. I think it's a Galaxy S22 maybe? That's not important. What's important is that the phone has a 10x optical zoom, and a 10x digital zoom on top of that which makes for 100x overall. The digital zoom is heavily cleaned up by some sort of algorithm, preventing it from turning into a pixely mess. My point is that space optics and space algorithms would be like 100 times better, probably.
Comments
Tim
Hey, don't knock the therapeutic value of nitwits.
Eric Loken
Possibly, I'm talking about the smart way of handling the problem, not the paranoid psychotic way, which is more likely in this case.
Eric Loken
Yup, that is exactly it.
Ron Jarrell
This demonstrates a classic security issue we like to taunt vendors with when they try to sell our something guaranteed to prevent our documents from being shared or printed without permission. We ask “oh, so it keeps them from taking a picture of their screen with their phone:”. After hemming and hawing they suggest if that’s an issue ban cellphones at work. So we complain that then we need a guard to search everyone for their phone in case they think that rule is stupid, but surely it prevents them from calling someone on their desk phone and reading the document out loud? Typing a summary into another window and printing that? Writing the document down by hand in a notebook? Holding it up to a window for an accomplice to take super zoom photos from next door? No? None of that. Is that in the next version?
eddi_TBH
Sydney and Kender; both know the whole world loves them. Even that dragon chasing them through the dungeon is just a little upset about the shiney that fell into their pocket.
eddi_TBH
Folded optics on an atomic scale give her glasses the resolution of the Webb telescope. (Always dream big)
eddi_TBH
This is Sciona. She will attempt to strangle Sydney and hide the body.
eddi_TBH
At least the drool on his screen isn't visible.
eddi_TBH
She already knows Sydney. but she forgot how irritating she could be.
eddi_TBH
Forgetting one of her new powers. That is so Sydney. And her approach to Sciona even more so. Tail wagging and thought processes are "oh fun! new friend!"
Person
I thought her greatest weakness was mittens & duct tape.
Merle Blue
Yeah, they're pretty cheap, really
Opus the Poet
Yes but they cost as much as I spent on my phone.
Hugh Eckert
Love the vein pulsing on her forehead.
Jacob Bissey
Or maybe they aren't actually lenses but are actually screens and there are hundreds or thousands of tiny cameras on the front side and they have some collective means of compensating for the limitations of their individual size.
Jacob Bissey
Agreed, only force me to change my password when there's actually reason to suspect there may have been a breach, and definitely not periodically as then you have a predictable schedule for when people won't know their passwords off the top of their heads and thus will open more vulnerabilities. Instead of requiring strings of random characters or whatever, require passphrases, they are more secure and easier to remember. A good passphrase won't need to be written down to be recalled when you need it, will be harder to guess than a simple password even if it's something personal, and the significantly higher character count makes it harder to brute force
ThatOneComicGuy
Sour cream and onion chips are gonna blow her mind.
Eric Loken
Sydney merely asked if she was a super, so that can be played down, particularly if she goes with saying her powers are minor. If she can convince Sydney that it's no big deal, Sydney may even neglect to mention it to anyone simply because she doesn't think it's important.
Eric Loken
She just believes that she's simply engaging in conversation and not in fact confronting a super villain. It's a minor trope - most often used for comedy - stumbling onto the villain's secret without realizing you have,
JonPR
Do they make polarized privacy screens for smartphones?
Torabi
Sydney thinks of herself as the backup! Her hubris is her greatest weakness.
Person
Lol, *your
Killianti
The limits of optics are different for different materials. You can get around a lot of the packaging and size limits if you use mirrors instead of glass or some other transparent material. Maybe Space™ glasses have found a way to dynamically reflect light inside the "lens" (for lack of a better word) to adjust zoom and focus.
Richard Riley
Sydney forgot the rookie rule, Always Call For Backup Before Engaging!
Richard Riley
The idiot part is making the password requirements (including how often you need to change them) so onerous that we NEED to write them down. :P
Sir Butcher
Or poriting the office WiFi password with huge, BOLD LETTERS and putting somewhere WHERE IT VISIBLE FROM THE STREET... I am still mad about that.
Playwars
This illustrates that no matter how secure the system, there will always be a weak link: the user. It's why most of the job in cyber security is lecturing people about not doing the obvious idiotic stuff like writing down passwords on post its or opening pishing emails.
Mark Magagna
She does have odd reactions to threats. If she knows you're threatening her, yes she can feel fear, but there's been times when she's just oblivious to it. Perhaps kender are just oblivious to it all the time? From what I remember they have authorial immunity.
William Elliott
hidden villain caught sexting... whoda thunk? Now the question is, how is she going to play this off and NOT get on ARCHON's "radar"...
Town Crier
Could Sydney have just opened up an HR nightmare, which will be overlooked and covered up (this time) since she revealed some crucial information?
Brittany Huckey
"No no work life balance, girl." SCIONA YES. FUCKIN GET IT. I have never liked her more than this moment
Thisguy
She forgot rule no. 1 about secure communications. MAKE SURE YOUR IMMEDIATE AREA IS SECURE!
Anton Schleef
Your phone is getting hot when you text because your sub-standard grammar is making the auto-correct work overtime and it's embarrassed to be used by someone with such poor language skills. The boob-storage is what's making it happy enough to put up with you.
Anton Schleef
Despite her lack of hairy legs she always seemed part Kender to me. Fun-sized, full of energy, seems more than a bit looney, don't blink or you'll lose track of her. Really, the only thing she's missing is the near total immunity to fear and I'd be convinced she's a Kender under a permanent polymorph spell.
Greg Morrow
The size of the lens and the distance puts a physical limit on the resolution of objects, if I remember my optical physics. I would be surprised if iphone text is not below that limit at that distance. But some predictive text could probably recover most of the detail (with some hilarious typos).
Andrew Denton
She has REALLY mastered that comedy lean-in, hasn't she.
You_With_The_Face
Also, no one should be tempting fate like that, so Syd can't even be blamed
You_With_The_Face
Never change, Sydney. Never change.
Aclys
So now we know Sydney absolutely has a super power for twarting villains accidentally
Madcat6204
Easiest way to hack a secure communication, really: have someone on hand at the receiving (or sending, I suppose) end who can just read the decrypted version.
Michael Obert
Another thwarting made possible by ADHD nosiness
James C
The technology is uncrackable end-to-end communication. Unfortunately, at either of those ends, it has zero protection from ADHD squirrels suffering from boredom...
