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Tainted food and unsafe children’s toys kill people. Sketchy devices on your wi-fi don’t really harm anyone. They’re a minor inconvenience at best, mostly to

by sneak 2mo ago

Tainted food and unsafe children’s toys kill people. Sketchy devices on your wi-fi don’t really harm anyone. They’re a minor inconvenience at best, mostly to large corporations that like to discern residential connections from business/corporate ones.

inigyou 2mo ago
I don't know why this is such an unpopular opinion on HN.
- red-iron-pine 2mo ago
  you don't get why a news aggregator for tech bros have problems with crappy devices hacking them?
  - inigyou 2mo ago
    What is being hacked? The ad industry? I didn't know the average HNbreader had such deep compassion for the ad industry.
  - sneak 2mo ago
    Being on your LAN isn’t “hacking” anyone otherwise every hotel, airport, conference, and airplane would be unsafe.