Plastic is cheaper to make than it is to recycle.
Only if you externalize the real costs. If you leave the real cost of plastic, the waste problem, the environmental problems, the health problems, etc, out, only then it looks cheap.
It is not an oil industry problem only because corrupt politicians put the problem onto society, so the oil industry has the profit and not the costs.
No.
The emoji has a meaning though. If the client had simply responded "yes", it would be a confirmation, but not a signature. If you demand a signature, then specifically ask for it in your confirmation request.
If you really think you cannot by definition hack by supplying input, then there are by definition no injection attacks. Bobby Tables sends you greetings. While chatting with a chatbot is intended use, we might come up with a good name for the attack, if only to better understand what is happening. As chatbots are usually instructed to serve a certain purpose, I suggest we call it an "instruction attack", even if this is a no-brainer kind of attack.
This does not mean that the New York Times did anything illegal. They did an investigation. Just like researchers use all kinds of vulnerabilities to investigate malware.
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