Also, those devices are always capturing data. So if/when they ever connect, that data will get uploaded.

This seems to be the key bit of the comment.

Outside of the examples listed, a more reasonable possibility is if someone else in your home (ex. A family member) connects it to the network. Also even if it doesn’t automatically connect to a public network, well placed popups can also lead to mistakes.

Some key details

The Kumamoto Prefecture Anti-Violence Movement Promotion Center promises free and confidential counselling services to people who are associated with (or threatened by) yakuzas, Japan’s gangster organizations.

As the counselling center recently announced on its website, one of its employees fell victim to a tech support scam in mid-November and gave the attackers remote access to his computer. The employee promptly realized his mistake and immediately cut the power and network supply to his system. “But we cannot rule out the possibility that personal data has been leaked,” admit those responsible, warning people who may be affected not to respond to contact requests by email or telephone that supposedly come from employees of the organization.

I think that part was a joke

“For real though” structured like that usually implies that the first part was a joke (or not ‘real’), but they also want to make a serious statement. Similar to “in all seriousness”

Most of the posts I see are from [email protected]

This was reported for being posted twice, so I’m removing the second one.

But I’m open to reinstating the post if people want to access the comments. Sorry for the delay in getting to this!

I changed my mind. Since I was late in getting to this, and both posts have lots of comments already, I’ll leave up both.

This was reported for being posted twice, so I’m removing the second one (this post) and linked to it from the comments of the other post.

I changed my mind. Since I was late in getting to this, and both posts have lots of comments already, I’ll leave up both.

Positive feedback loop of cat photos

Then after a certain point, once people noted the increase, it became a meme to post more cat photos

It could also be the type of sorting you are using. I was seeing lots of cats, and my settings are

• scaled sort
• subscribed feed

Good point! It’s going through rapid development, maybe it’s planned for the future

I thought it was fedilore worthy, cross posted to [email protected]

I don’t think it was coordinated.

It feels like someone shared a photo, others felt inspired to share, and it snowballed since then

[email protected]

Come check it out, or add to the cat photo avalanche

Too much for me, I’m out 🏳️

I think they should sell it to me.

When something is posted on Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc., I can access it without an account.

When something is on Twitter/X, Instagram, etc., I can’t access it (either easily, or at all) unless I make an account and sign in with it.

Important information should not be on a platform where it is locked away like this.

From what I remember, Misskey fills the niche that Mastodon does and it’s been popular in Japan for a lot longer than mastodon was popular elsewhere

Also I’d be curious what the breakdown of Japanese users is across the three. Overall user counts are one thing, but maybe the number of Japanese users matches that order (Misskey > Bluesky > Mastodon)

Agreed, the map made it seem like a lot of separate incidents were all happening at the same time. I’m impressed with how efficiently they’re working through it all

Draw.io could also work, its meant for flowcharts

https://www.drawio.com/

We’re good! It came back on for us earlier. The crews are working hard out there