by sitting on 0-days for their partners to use at will. That's not to say all of these exploits were such, but I bet many were (especially the bitlocker one).

Because only positive unintended consequences for drugs are possible!

It greases up the school to prison pipeline, that's for sure

"It is still the human in control that decides to say "good enough" that makes it slop. "

They could iterate on it a hundred times, it'l be in-key but it still won't be good. Being perfect was never what made music good.

I disagree that it should be up to every individual to squint at a number on some packaging every time, and even wasting some water on dirty packaging just to be sure. The misunderstanding is not a passive reception on the consumer's part, it is an action on the part of plastic companies to make the consumer feel that the weight of plastic pollution is actually their fault, even though they had no part in choosing to use it. Case in poiint, the famous "crying indian" ad.

Well that's funny, I don't recall having to submit my info to a digital ID company 20 years ago..

With your first point you conflate the technology with the devices themselves. The direction of the original poster was correct, look at the armored bulldozers caterpillar sells Israel, they are killing machines meant to crush civilians as well as level structures.

And do you want to tell me it's an impossibility that ICE for example would dip into commercial surveillance networks they previously didn't have access to? The chronology of "they've moved past this tech" doesn't even line up with your absurdist take about using lawnmowers etc.

Will somebody please think of how the poor surveillance dragnet has suffered through all this?

The promise of government investment is the only thing that is exciting about Intel in 2026.

How much do you have to pay somebody at a respected outlet like Wired to normalize this shit?

Meta already wants to provides AI bots so your dead relatives can sell you things, which is comparably worse

But it is about people, these companies are wrapped up around the personalities and egos of their founders / CEOs, not to mention machinations around their other hobby horses and bounce houses--like worldcoin, or even zuck's failed demiruge VR project. But at least zuck didn't launch a digital ID currency partially off the biocredentials of peasants in the third world.

Oh, my sweet summer child..

Phones for all their surveillance uses still won't serve up information about your body state to your employer, which constitutes some of the hype around a future of employers requiring wearables. The public applications are of the sort people would volunteer for: payment and identification including for physical access.

Granted I'm sure there are other technologies that could obsolete needing a chip, but my overall point is that these technologies are presented to the public as a negotiation of conveniences--especially with air travel in particular, where the state has recently seen fit to insert part-time gestapo as a solution to a problem that never existed.

"You don't have to wear the bracelet if you just get the chip, you know."