Is anyone else here disturbed by the cost/benefit tradeoff with respect to abuse? Here's this sort of neat thing that is a high-tech fix to a really minor prob

Is anyone else here disturbed by the cost/benefit tradeoff with respect to abuse? Here's this sort of neat thing that is a high-tech fix to a really minor problem but that opens up a whole new attack surface and makes problems for everybody. I.e. your personal need to track a few items makes the commons worse for everyone.