• Scanning Faces

    From Lee Lofaso@2:203/2 to ALL on Sat Apr 16 01:57:22 2022
    Hello Everybody,

    What a novel way to remember the dead.

    Ukraine is scanning faces of dead Russians, then contacting
    the mothers. Making sure their sacrifice will never be forgotten.

    Tweet text:
    Drew Harwell
    @drewharwell
    New: Ukraine has run more than 8,600 facial recognition searches on
    dead or captured Russians in the 50 days since the war began, using the
    scans to find the soldiers' social media profiles - and send photos of
    their corpses to their families back home

    washingtonpost.com
    Ukraine is scanning faces of dead Russians, then contacting the
    mothers. Ukrainian officials say their use of a U.S. company’s facial recognition software to identify dead soldiers could accelerate the
    end of a brutal war. But some experts argue that it’s “classic...
    5:21 AM · Apr 15, 2022

    Keep in mind, this idea is not original for Ukraine, which got
    the original idea from Fidonet sysops -

    I was trying to find a sysop the other day and found out he had
    passed on a few years ago. It made me think it might be nice to
    have a Sysop Memorial Wall somewhere, we can list the sysop and
    the BBS they ran.

    Some years ago I already started something like that as a nodelist WD>addendum, remarkable people, giants in their own right. The ZCs at
    that time decided against it concluding it was a breach of privacy
    to which the next of kin might object. Just sayin'...

    How can public information be a breech of privacy?

    That can be a very private interpretation by an individual for
    reasons we are not privy to.

    See there? It is all Ward's fault. He is the one responsible for
    having given Ukraine the bright idea to become the disseminator of
    public information. And you know what that means -

    I would not want to be the guy sitting across the table of
    Vladimir Putin after he has seen those pictures of dead Russians.

    --Lee

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    Nobody Beats Our Meat

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