You speak for everyone?

Please. You speak for 5% of the planet. The other 95% is far too apathetic to give a shit.

Tough to believe the IDGAF factor is that high when it comes to privacy? OK, let me know how many millions of people around the planet refuse to carry a cell phone next month when this hits the evening news.

I fear we will need to conquer greed and corruption first.

We don't make millions of guns and bombs because it's really fun to shoot them. We make weapons of mass destruction because it's profitable for someone to do so.

And we don't make just a few nukes, or a handful of bullets. No, we make enough to destroy the entire planet several times over, and stockpile ammo for decades while watching the government claim they're running low and order a few more billion rounds on the taxpayer.

Why?

Because it's profitable for someone to do so.

Greed kills. Corruption enables it.

That's an interesting theory.

Tell everyone that ad-supported hardware will be going away, and that new fancy cell phone will cost $900 on top of the contract.

App stores will no longer subsidize with advertising, so you will pay for every app that delights you.

Yes, let's just see how much willingness is still out there.

"Our reputation is everything"

They care about saving face because they were caught which can directly impact sales. It doesn't mean they're going to uninstall the other crapware you're not bitching about right now. When that goes viral, they might remove it then, but make no mistake as to their overall intent of ensuring as many revenue streams as possible.

So, let me get this straight. A "professional" pop artist today walks into a studio to drop a track, which is then Autotuned, excited, boosted, compressed, and otherwise destroyed by post-processing...

...and we're now worried about macro-levels of electrical noise coming from the memory card?

Perhaps we should worry more about what we define as an "artist" these days.

I'm sorry what instability are you referring to again here? The US Stock Market? 2008 financial meltdown? Precious metals?

Surely you're not just being ignorant here and assuming that value cannot be vaporized damn near instantly in any currency due to greed and corruption, as if we've never seen that shit before...

Tell me something, when you find a hack of this magnitude, how quickly are you going to be willing to jump up and down screaming "they did it! they did it!"?

"stopped short" is politically correct speak for we-know-who-not-to-fuck-with.

Seriously, how dumbed down does a Linux installer need to get in order for the average moron to wipe and re-install their YouTube/Netflix binge box?

We've already turned the right-clicking, mouse-wielding user into a drooling baby that just points at the large colorful tiles on the touchscreen to make it "go".

I'm really starting to wonder if the Year of the Linux Desktop is directly tied to reducing the average consumer IQ level to that of a goat. Better start working on the voice recognition interfaces now, since our future appears to be an idiot yelling at a server to make it reboot.

You're genuinely curious? Well, OK. The recommended specs for a dungeon generator are what exactly?

I get your point, this is akin to measuring graphics cards by how fast they can render a Solitaire win, but it was more a comment reflecting how fast ancient programs run on today's hardware.

Or in other words, targeted at us old farts who do remember when computers used to actually strain themselves.

Perhaps we should start marketing the term "hackette", and include a pen-test ISO image with every Barbie Thumb Drive.

Seems to be the desperate approach in CS-land.

So, a consumer who chooses to use a newer more robust wireless technology (BT) and suffers zero side effects from it's usage (even over years of use), they are somehow deemed "silly" to you?

Perhaps the only thing that is silly is the amount of FUD you're trying to spread here. Even if it held some level of valid concern for public health, it's going to be one hell of an effort to convince the FCC to start banning wireless protocols that are as prevalent as BT/WiFi are today.

Hell, your damn toaster and microwave will soon have BT, WiFi, 4G, and NFC as IoT takes over, so it would be some interesting fashion designs to attempt to wear a Faraday cage around your body all day every day to shield you from everyone else.

Woah, OK, hold on a second.

I know this whole "maker" thing isn't all that new here, but this is what we're now trying to redefine a "hacker" as?

Boy, I can't wait to see how the media handles this one, since they've done such a great job reporting on all those "hackers" for the last decade or two. Remember according to them, all hackers are inherently criminals.

First thing I was thinking of too. Not sure which technical decade Sony was thrown back into recently, but they kind of missed the mark here with wireless NFC technology paired with a wired "remote".

Name a president who didn't seemingly age 20 years a term, especially when they serve a double.

Not enough left in the Federal Reserve to make that job worth it due to the stress alone.

Ironically, the "dangerous" toys of the nuclear age have been replaced with the "dangerous" toys of the electronic age.

Physical damage vs. mental/psychological. Pick your poison. In the overall scheme of things, we've probably done far more damage to ourselves with the latter.

Boy, it sure is a good thing that someone is always thinking of the children.