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I completely agree that what you say is their motivation - but is a little nuts that this is acceptable. Managing their PR nightmare shouldn't be cause for des

I completely agree that what you say is their motivation - but is a little nuts that this is acceptable. Managing their PR nightmare shouldn't be cause for destroying property/data they don't own. Even if their cause is more to the point of preventing injury - - I don't know for sure where I come down on this - its a step that can be taken for the public good - but I also feel like allowing this to happen just means that more companies will build in these kind of capabilities and substitute proper testing before launch. I really believe before its over with we are going to have to resolve this idea that we are renting or licensing hardware/software from companies. It make sense in some scenarios, but to pay $700 for a piece of hardware that ultimately you don't have final say in just doesn't seem like its going to be tenable in the long run. I'm not sure what kind of scenario its going to take for the public to push back - but I hope it happens.

visarga 10y ago
> to pay $700 for a piece of hardware that ultimately you don't have final say in just doesn't seem like its going to be tenable in the long run Unfortunately, it's the brave new world. We can't put the genie back into the bottle. Every device has hardware and software from hundreds of sources, there are security holes which need to be patched up timely, it's hard to do it without a centralized update system, so we have to give up control and blindly trust the providers to protect us from hackers. The trend of losing privacy is going to accentuate. We have to develop a new way of thinking and living in a panopticon society, because there's no way to return back to 1980'es. We need to develop ways to preserve freedom and creativity in this perfect surveillance world. How would a social network protect anonymity, reject spam and detect organized manipulation, at the same time? What would it take to bootstrap it? How could we have phones that leak less information about us?

visarga 10y ago

> to pay $700 for a piece of hardware that ultimately you don't have final say in just doesn't seem like its going to be tenable in the long run Unfortunately, it's the brave new world. We can't put the genie back into the bottle. Every device has hardware and software from hundreds of sources, there are security holes which need to be patched up timely, it's hard to do it without a centralized update system, so we have to give up control and blindly trust the providers to protect us from hackers. The trend of losing privacy is going to accentuate. We have to develop a new way of thinking and living in a panopticon society, because there's no way to return back to 1980'es. We need to develop ways to preserve freedom and creativity in this perfect surveillance world. How would a social network protect anonymity, reject spam and detect organized manipulation, at the same time? What would it take to bootstrap it? How could we have phones that leak less information about us?