Candy Machine Facial Recognition Crash

Students at the University of Waterloo discovered that their candy machines were covertly collecting facial recognition data when 'Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe' crashed. CHECK THAT EVERYTHING IS IN ORDER... THIS MACHINE WILL BE READY SHORTLY. The exception unknown software exception occurred in the application at location OK

A screenshot of a tweet describes University of Waterloo candy machines secretly collecting facial-recognition data until their vending software crashed. The attached image shows an M&M character beside a Windows-style error dialog and the reassuring message “CHECK THAT EVERYTHING IS IN ORDER... THIS MACHINE WILL BE READY SHORTLY.” The joke is that a suspicious surveillance system fails while the machine calmly claims everything is fine, making it useful as a reaction to absurd technical cover-ups. EN: A screenshot of a tweet describes University of Waterloo candy machines secretly collecting facial-recognition data until their vending software crashed. The attached image shows an M&M character beside a Windows-style error dialog and the reassuring message “CHECK THAT EVERYTHING IS IN ORDER... THIS MACHINE WILL BE READY SHORTLY.” The joke is that a suspicious surveillance system fails while the machine calmly claims everything is fine, making it useful as a reaction to absurd technical cover-ups.

• @gentoomemes / 9648 2024-02-25