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Facebook: The future is private! So private, we designed some handy new fingercams for y'all!

Tom Paine

What could possibly...

...go wrong with a system that uses gestures to turn on live streaming?

To control its hand-cams, Facebook engineers propose using gestures and movement patterns – a waving motion for camera activation or deactivation, a flicking motion to start recording, a wrist articulation to stop it, and a wrist rotation to broadcast live.

I wouldn't want to be the QA people tasked with testing the uncommanded start protections. And it'd only take a few "whoops, I just wanted to crack one out, but I've accidentally broadcast my cock to the world" incidents to sink this silly idea forever.

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