There is not a limitless amount of bandwidth to broadcast in a small area. Most of these devices are operating in the same spectrum (since they are WiFi, UHF and SHF). The FCC almost certainly has the exclusive legal right to regulate the radio spectrum, but the organizer of an event should be given some way to coordinate and organize access to the limited resource. That the FCC lacks any way for an event to legally do something that I believe they should be doing. I argue that the FCC needs a form and a fee for this sort of thing before organizers are allowed to restrict WiFi access. And that requests are temporary and limited to santioned events and not for a coffee shop or theme park that wants to gouge customers.

Of course I'm ignoring the issue of free speech. Does your right to free speech include running your own WiFi network to circumvent a potentially malicious organization's WiFi?

$200 per head seems about right on price, if I had to hire some consultants to throw together a network for 3 days, then tear it all down, seems like a bargain.

I don't think much will happen, considering business executives don't go to prison for knowingly putting tainted water into the pipes or leaking gas into people's homes. Leaking passwords seems like a minor thing, maybe if the banks and credit companies got tired of paying, but I suspect those guys have figured out a way to pass the costs onto customers or the individual account holders.

They won't do anything unless something has immediate financial consequences. And even when they are hacked, they cry about being the victim and how hackers cost them millions of dollars. They need to be told: No, not spending a few thousand dollars on regular audits is why you lost millions of dollars.

Because that is how it is done, and I've never been given any alternative.
The NDA is that you cannot disclose, it is not the same as a non-compete agreement. Which I agree you wouldn't sign, but also I live in California where non-competes are usually not valid.

Or replace it with one that is more transparent and perhaps spends less time trying to regulate individual behavior and more time organizing the infrastructure that is beneficial to all. I want a small government that stays out of my day to day life but also gets stuff done. (maybe strong local government and weak federal government, but that is not it exactly because most of my local government is ran by busybodies who worry about how many plastic flamingos I might put out on my lawn)

It kind of creeps up on you. You sign a bunch of papers, and the deal is done.

If any of us actually read the fine print, we wouldn't sign anything. Not even an NDA to get a job interview. These days you end up having to believe that someone isn't going to totally screw you over even if the document you sign seems indicate that they will. Not signing any documents is not realistic, if you want to go to school or have a job.

Some people are intelligent but overly trusting of people who seem nice.

I've been taken in by actual con artists before, not a huge amount, but they did abuse my overly trusting nature. Otherwise I am quite a rational and intelligent person.

Places like ITT give you quite the song and dance when you visit their campus. And "walk you through the process". The simple mistake people make is not getting a second opinion. Are students responsible for their own mistakes? Sure. Is it fair? No. Should we shut down those who exploit other people, that is gain profit without offering something of equivalent value in return? Absolutely.

I bought some like 10 years ago (Apple TV), it's in a landfill now.

Yes, I would like a list of accounts that were NOT hacked.

That may be true update to a point. I would argue that vices are also a part of life, and one's inevitable demise.

Ha Ha funny. You almost got me.

NeXTSTEP, NeXTStep, OPENSTEP, .Mac, .mac, ...

Several companies owe billions in back taxes, according to an EU commission. I think we agree there.
I don't know what threshold you have set for the definition of the colloquialism of "dragged through court", but you're the one that is being unreasonable here.

I'm sure the MPAA would like to know where SanDisk's customers are getting all this 4K and 8K content that needs to be stored on a portable device.