> This inability to understand the difference between using a technology and having the same technology used against you is endemic to the industry. Take Crosso

> This inability to understand the difference between using a technology and having the same technology used against you is endemic to the industry. Take Crossover, which bills itself as "the Fitbit of productivity," but whose customers rhapsodize about the product giving them "powers of near X-ray vision." The point of a Fitbit is to help you improve something that matters to you – but Crossover's customers want to use it to punish other people for failing to follow orders. It's the difference between a Fitbit and a prisoner-tracking cuff – which make crossover "the ankle-braclet of productivity." This was the most insightful point in the article for me. The distinction between being a user and being a target applies to much more than bossware, too. (Generative AI being an obvious recent example.)