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  @glyph@mastodon.social I've long wanted an OS-level option to, when an app asks for contact access, to give them a phonebook of plausible fake data where every email is a spam trap.

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  @futurebird@sauropods.win maybe this is Wikipedia misrepresenting the idea, but it sounds like this puts a lot of additional burden on the victim? Like there's all these meetings with the victim and offender, on top of the trial that established the guilt of the offender in the first place. I had my wallet stolen once, and the majority of the harm to me was the time and stress it took to replace the IDs and cards. If on top of that I had to go to a bunch of meetings with the guy who stole...

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  @Sadsquatch I would *absolutely* go on that!

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  @ifixcoinops @drahardja on the hardware side, some locally-visible indication that the device is being controlled remotely (e.g. blinking for a few seconds after a command) + some way to easily disable that remote control + local controls so you still have the basic non-smart functionality? Though it's cheaper not to add all that stuff so the cheapest option at the big box hardware store will probably also be the most abuser-friendly :/

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  @ifixcoinops I'm definitely prone to that line of thinking. My instinctive reaction was "what's the point of adding safeguards when the abuser can just comment them out". But I've been programming for nearly as long as I have memories, and it's been nearly 20 years since the last time I saw a piece of open-source software as something I couldn't just change to do what I wanted. It takes some conscious effort to remember that isn't how it is for everyone!