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Very much not my area, but would this also mean that there is a way to parse the same signals they used for identifying finger movements to build a more general 3D map of the room? Perhaps with variances between multiple WiFi signals if you know the origin?

Very much an aside, but I love the name "Oklo" for a nuclear power company. Oklo is a location in Gabon where they found proof of a "natural" nuclear reaction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reac...

You smarty pants may have already known about Oklo, but as a kid, and even today, this information absolutely delights me.

Yes. That's is the whole point I am making. He knew it was wrong, and a lot of people suffer, including his innocent children. Not sure if you think I am defending what he is reported to have done, but I am not at all intending to do so.

I worked directly with Ahmad at Twitter on the international media team. All I can say is I now understand how the next door neighbor to a serial killer can say "but he always seemed like the nicest guy." He really was very nice to everybody, worked hard, and seemed genuine.

They were definitely tools available to all of us that allowed this type of access to personal data and more. Specifically a lot of the lists that were generated about who to follow suggestions were manually curated at the time and we could put whoever we wanted on the list. We were expected to put people that were relevant in our industry on those lists, but I think Ahmed actually got in trouble for putting himself on that list to build up his Twitter following.

At the time it was certainly a major initiative to rebuild the legacy systems to fix exactly this type of problem. There were strong mandates from the top of the company that were made abundantly clear to us that while they were fixing these things we were all under agreement and NDA to keep all of this data private. The systems were broken no question, but the message was clear. That just makes it even more disappointing to see what he did. He has a very young family at home that is now going to be totally broken.