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That's a poor analogy. They are forbidden from operating a motor vehicle. In this case, he's forbidden to operate technology that's connected to the internet. H
by pyre 12y ago
That's a poor analogy. They are forbidden from operating a motor vehicle. In this case, he's forbidden to operate technology that's connected to the internet. His wife controlling the Netflix feed is analogous to a drunk driver taking the bus (someone else is driving).
- kazinator 12y agoWell, you are ruining the analogy by carrying over the word "operating" from one context to another, where it has different nuances. That is a form of equivocation over word semantics. Hit-and-run drivers are forbidden from driving, but not from using as passengers. Passengers also "operate" vehicles through that use, but we don't use the word that way; when it refers to vehicles, it serves as a synonym for being behind the wheel, used in puffy legal language. For instance, a taxi arrives because the user made a telephone call. The user isn't involved in the details, but is commanding the situation. Just like the user of Firefox requests a URL, but isn't involved in putting fields into a TCP/IP packet header, or writing any code. It is nonsensical to forbid a convicted cracker from consumer activities such as looking up today's weather, or searching for a used lawn mower on Craigslist. The concern that these will cause an intrusion is like worrying that someone taking a taxi might order the driver to run someone over. Or something like that. You're not going to break into the Pentagon out of your Netflix remote. For that matter, if you knew of a way how, you could easily get your wife to push the buttons. (And she will do it, too, because you had her at "tits or GTFO".)
- betenoire 12y agoI think your point is weakened by your analogy, your last two paragraphs stand on their own.