cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19944734

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A sight previously thought to be science fiction is very real at a southeast Kansas City shopping center. Instead of a police officer, a security robot has been patrolling sidewalks and shoppers are taking notice.

Since Marshall the robot has been on the job, shoppers say the experiences have completely changed when they come to these stores. The robot can spend 23 hours a day monitoring the parking lot from all angles which gives people a new sense of protection and ease they don’t always have when out.

Marshall took over security at Brywood Centre in April. Before that, Karen White noticed a lot of trouble outside the shopping center.

“Sometimes it’d be concerning for your car like someone could take it or something,” White said.

Knowing now that Marshall is always watching, the risk of crime does not worry her or others as much.

“It made it very better, like you can’t be in the parking lot without seeing the robot,” White continued. “So, I think it scared them off.”

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“Pick up your gum wrapper. You have 20 seconds to comply…”

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Pick up that can

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One time I threw it at him and it managed to bounce off of his chest into the can. I’ve never been able to replicate it. He still chased me around the room through lol.

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I like to throw it at them, then sprint away to see if I can make it outside before I get smacked. It’s about 50/50.

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put it. in the trash can.

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gun wrapper

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Ha, good catch. Damn you autocorrect!

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I read that in dalek voice

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I read that in ED-209

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Does it resemble a Dalek on purpose, I wonder?

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It’s like if Aperture Science designed a Dalek

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Perfection

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I believe you mean:

This is a triumph

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I think so, lol. Dalek security guards are scary indeed.

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Imagine shoplifting and they show up at the exit like:

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HALT!

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I’m pretty sure privacy goes out the window when you commit a crime. If it isn’t robots it would be humans arresting you.

Don’t support criminals in any form as they are the ones who are actively creating a need to stop crime.

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The bootlicking version of “why do you need privacy if you have nothing to hide?”

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He has a license plate reader, he has facial recognition, he can read IP addresses from your cell phone or watch,”

Uhhhh… How is it reading the ip addresses of people’s phones?

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I imagine it MITM’s the wifi? Obviously wouldn’t work with cellular but thats the only this claim can ve even remotely true.

That being said they could do some shit with malicious bluetooth/NFC behaviour but that would be a crime.

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Well its probably not a MITM if its just an official access point

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That’s fair. MITM wouldn’t be the right term.

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I’ve heard for a while that stores use Bluetooth to track you as you go through a store. Not for anything nefarious but just to understand how people move around the store typically. So it probably does that too.

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Obviously wouldn’t work with cellular

Ever hear of a stingray?

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Why would it need to MITM the WiFi? The store runs and operates the wifi

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good point.

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Someone made a mistake here. It’s not getting your IP address. An IP address is assigned by the gateway when you’re connected to an access point. An IP address is not an identity. They are always changing and can be shared. This has already been tested and upheld in court.

It’s actually collecting your MAC address. Which is exchanged when your phone or tablet scan nearby WiFi points or Bluetooth devices. However, this can already be defeated. By default iOS and Android both have the option to randomise the MAC address in intervals. Making it extremely difficult to prove anything. This feature exists because the devices real MAC address never changes. It is unique. Alternatively, users can disable WiFi and Bluetooth scanning entirely. However, your device no longer participates in the Find My Devices program by Apple and Google, location does take longer to acquire in some scenarios, and accuracy may take longer to triangulate.

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Counter-argument, this is all correct, but when the application is against shopping mall criminals it will work well enough. Not talking masterminds here

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It probably just has a WiFi repeater in it

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I bet it was something like the hardware id instead but she misspoke

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It must be for wifi that they operate.

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Scarier than I thought 😭

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One of these hit my car. It was out patrolling randomly in a parking lot and I pulled up to get a better look at it. I stopped like 6 ft in front of it but it just kept on coming and ran into my fucking car.

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“You are illegally parked on private property. You have twenty seconds to move your vehicle.” -ED-209

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Sorry, I laughed. Did it do damage? What was the outcome?

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Left some paint on the car but that was it.

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That’s the downside of having the invisible boatmobile, they just keep coming

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