I have a friend who, when he gets out of college, has been promised a job at well known electronics company with a salary around $70k.
[citation needed] Sorry, I don't buy the "my friend is being offered $70k/year straight out of college, but wants to work for Blizzard instead" line. I'm gonna call bullshit on this one.
Imma have to agree with you on this too. I have never heard of anyone making that 'right out of college'. Maybe within a few years if you're good at that thing you do, hit a great idea or are one of the rare prodigies.
However, if this is true, I'd say, 'take the 70k job, work a few yrs to get some experience and then move on to follow your dreams.' That's what I did. Not with programming though.
It would help if the manufacturers would preinfect their software so we could stop worry about "if" we are infected and move towards just accepting it.
This is actually happening with phones now. just read some of the permissions of Facebook, Chrome, Firefox and a few others. They can take a photo or record audio without your permission.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.