The first assault on a cyborg using assistive glasses, that processed locally, happened in 2012 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/countering-mcdonald-s-denial-cyborg-posts-new-photo-alleged-assault-flna895484

Meta glasses process in the cloud because that’s what meta wants, the technology is more than there for local processing.

If I punched everyone that was rude to me that would be a lot of people.

Reasonably speaking, you have no way of knowing if smart glasses are local or remote processing just by looking at them.

I suffer from prosopagnosia (face blindness), so facial recognition would be legitimately useful for me.

Yeah, this just makes anyone who opposes smart glasses look like bullies that are mad they can’t get away with assaulting people.

Reading TFA it seems like it is encrypted when it’s sent to their servers, a security researcher just doesn’t like the use of the term “end to end” to describe that.

It would be impossible to analyse the images if it wasn’t decrypted, so it seems a little silly.

See also, the Pauli effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect

The Pauli effect or Pauli’s device corollary is the supposed tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people. The term was coined after mysterious anecdotal stories involving Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, describing numerous instances in which demonstrations involving equipment suffered technical problems only when he was present.

An incident occurred in the physics laboratory at the University of Göttingen. An expensive measuring device, for no apparent reason, suddenly stopped working, although Pauli was in fact absent. James Franck, the director of the institute, reported the incident to his colleague Pauli in Zürich with the humorous remark that at least this time Pauli was innocent. However, it turned out that Pauli had been on a railway journey to Zürich and had switched trains in the Göttingen rail station at about the time of the failure.

R. Peierls describes a case when at one reception this effect was to be parodied by deliberately crashing a chandelier upon Pauli’s entrance. The chandelier was suspended on a rope to be released, but it stuck instead, thus becoming a real example of the Pauli effect