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Toilet Cam Update
When they said "end-to-end", they didn't mean that end. The latest update on the Dekoda Fecal Surveillance System.
Previously.
posted by Winnie the Proust on Dec 04, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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To allay the obvious privacy concerns, the company emphasizes the sensors are only pointed down, into the bowl...
Oh, OK, so the fetishist voyeur hackers will only be able to see all of my craps, but not my butt. Well that's reassuring.
Except now I have to cross "OnlyCraps" off my money-making ideas list.
posted by PlusDistance at 7:36 PM
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Some of us have perhaps come to assume that "end-to-end encrypted" means "the company that runs this service can't read my messages or see my pictures," but that's not what "end-to-end encrypted" actually says at all, is it?
posted by Western Infidels at 7:53 PM
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Metafilter: End-to-end encrypted
I mean, it has the little lock in the address bar.
posted by Ickster at 8:38 PM
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Western Infidels: "Some of us have perhaps come to assume that "end-to-end encrypted" means "the company that runs this service can't read my messages or see my pictures," but that's not what "end-to-end encrypted" actually says at all, is it?"
i think that still can be the case. it's just in this instance, the receiving end is the company and not say your friend on a chat app.
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 9:02 PM
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the company emphasizes the sensors are only pointed down, into the bowl
Would these be American-style toilet bowls full of water with a lot of reflective surface area?
posted by theory at 9:14 PM
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Some of us have perhaps come to assume that "end-to-end encrypted" means "the company that runs this service can't read my messages or see my pictures," but that's not what "end-to-end encrypted" actually says at all, is it?
That makes sense now. I saw this earlier and I was "Like what did they think the second end in end2end was referring to?"
posted by Mitheral at 9:53 PM
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End to end encrapted, amirite?
posted by Spike Glee at 10:27 PM
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Did you know that tampering with the Toilet Cameras is a Federal Crime? They are, after all, for research purposes only.
posted by autopilot at 11:13 PM
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Wait, what? Somebody actually made Smart Pipe?
I missed this first time around, thanks for the update.
posted by flabdablet at 12:11 AM
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Also, I don't understand why they called it Dekoda when what it clearly is is Rate My Poo.
posted by flabdablet at 12:12 AM
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Wipe left or wipe right!
posted by Winnie the Proust at 3:24 AM
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Kohler's privacy policy mentions using the information they collect to train AI and machine learning models. How soon are we likely to start seeing Craptchas?
posted by flabdablet at 6:56 AM
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man i already encrypt my popps, drop 'em all directly on Kissinger's grave
posted by cortex at 7:07 AM
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I don't think Cory Doctorow wanted anyone to read his recent work so literally.
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 7:10 AM
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))<>((
posted by MengerSponge at 12:12 PM
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"End to end encryption" on a toilet camera makes it sound like they've invented a technology that takes pictures of butts that can only be seen by other butts.
posted by mhoye at 12:22 PM
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this reminds me a little of the time some mefite proposed defeating sewage-based mass surveillance by means of some sort of hazmat-suited bucket brigade functioning kind of like the tor network, which i still laugh about periodically; i wonder if they've spent the last decade kicking themself over missing a stupid "exit node" joke.
posted by nobody_truncates at 4:45 PM
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AsteriskAi, for your butthole analysis labor savings.
posted by j_curiouser at 1:17 PM
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