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I guess I'd just then have asked the same question about Oracle. Why would you expect them to be compromising supply chains to kill people, except for their sup

by jsnell 2y ago

I guess I'd just then have asked the same question about Oracle. Why would you expect them to be compromising supply chains to kill people, except for their supposed limited planning horizon? It seems like an equally odd point to make of any company. We don't actually live in a cyberpunkish dystopia of sovereign corporations. While it's reasonable to expect large companies to have their own intelligence operations - they are huge targets, after all - I find it hard to believe that any of them would run any kind of spook field operation in general, and definitely not anything this offensive.

h2odragon 2y ago
and yet: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/ebay-hit-with-3m-fine-admits-to-terrorizing-innocent-people/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/ebay-hit-with-3m... others have made the point; we're not in a different world than we were a few months ago. the perception of the world we are, and have been in; may have changed for some. i don't have a specific reason to name a particular company as more likely than any other to be ready to deploy direct violence in pursuit of shareholder value. I speak with cynical observation that if a capability exists, someone will find a use for it.