Hacking the meta ray-ban smartglasses

Re:Hacking the meta ray-ban smartglasses by theturtletalks on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:08AM (#50449941)

That reminds of this company that used to provide a body implant for people with certain issues. The company ended up closing down and had to go in and remove those implants from those people.

Those people rightfully were like why can’t we keep it and the company was like we have to run the services to manage it. Why not just open up the hardware and let it continue being used? Well if you put the wrong software and it ends up killing the person, the hardware company can be held liable.

Made me realize my dream of having an open-source car is never going to happen.

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Re:Hacking the meta ray-ban smartglasses by necovek on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:19AM (#50449990)

All the ECU reprogramming "tuners" have been treating cars like open source for a while now. Any old car has a limited amount of SW too, and people have simply switched parts around and hacked them however they see fit.

Basically, we already live a reality where dangerous machines like cars have been hacked and are operated on the street among us.

This is the same argument that was being made that FOSS is less secure because it's open in the 90s or 2000s. Yet the most of critical infra today runs on open source.

Don't you think it'd be safer if these tuners had access to the source code?

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