Yes. Great point. Nobody should ever live in, or travel too, a neighborhood that might be unsafe, or otherwise exercise their right to travel freely. Just move to a safe neighborhood, and never ever be anywhere where anything could ever go wrong. If everyone did that then all neighborhoods would be safe!!! I can't figure out why *everyone* hasn't done that. It's such a simple and obvious solution. Herp Derp.

You clearly lead a sheltered life, and you are an idiot if you think everyone carrying a gun makes people safer. Even if it did that is completely beside the point, not only because there are many, many places and situations where you can't carry a gun, but also because you can't just shoot people when your life isn't in immediate danger. If you believe that whenever a cop or security guard violates your rights you can't just shoot them, then expect to find yourself in prison soon. That's not how the second amendment works. And if some woman claims you assaulted her when you didn't, you can also enjoy your time in jail, either because you shot her or it was her word against yours, in which case I *promise* you, you will lose every time in many parts of the country and all too often everywhere else.

And you *really* aren't much of a hacker if you don't want these at DEF CON. That is literally the scenario where they should be *most* wanted. This is like banning packet sniffers because they could be used in an undesirable way. That is the *whole* *fscking* point!

I'm fine with that, as long as we start calling all security cameras "pervert" cameras.

Do you have a dashcam in case some idiot cuts you off in traffic then tries to sue you? If you really think that the only reason to have a recording of what goes on around you in public is to be an "influencer" you aren't very wise.

Wait! I know this one! It's people who don't want cops and security guards to be the only ones with evidence of the crimes committed by cops and security guards, right? It baffles me that a supposedly educated crowd of "tech experts" thinks that only the corporations and government should have the advantage, while the common citizen should be denied the same capabilities at all cost. News flash ... like it or not, in a public place you have consented to, and almost certainly are, being recorded. If you don't want video of your coochie being posted to the internet, don't show your coochie in public. If you don't want your Karen-like behavior posted, don't be a dipshit in public. I would *prefer* if it *was* *not* the case that we have lost the right to privacy in a public space, but that ship has sailed. The only question left is, do regular citizens get to have the same rights as the rich and powerful.

I don't even need to know you to know that you are a complete moron. You have already offered up incontrovertible evidence showing that much. Off you go now ...

Unlike most cops, most people don't commit crimes against humanity regularly. I don't know very many non-cops that do home invasions and kidnappings, or get together in a group to beat up helpless people they don't like for example. Nice attempt at false equivalence though.

That's strange. I see cops regularly harassing the homeless, young people, people of color, and anyone who doesn't fit the standard white conformist profile, but rarely see the other "regular" human beings doing so. Where do you live that all the "just human beings" are falsely arresting, fabricating charges against, and ruining the lives of people they don't like and/or that won't kiss their ass?

I said I have known / met them. I didn't say they were my friends. Have you ever heard of police associations? Have you ever been to functions that cater to the police? Have you been in and around the criminal court systems where you regularly meet cops? Do you have any relatives with decades in law enforcement? Do you have a family with strong ties to departments in hundreds of different cities and towns? Did you go to visit all these various departments and meet the officers? Were there over 200 uniformed cops at your father's funeral? You don't know anything about me, so calling me a liar might not your best path to informed and intelligent commentary. Cops are like M$ Windows: the more you know about them the more you realize they should be avoided unless there is no alternative.

I have known thousands of cops including a stepmother who rose through the ranks from beat cop to chief of police, and have been at functions with hundreds of cops telling stories of all their crimes. Everything I said is based on first hand evidence except the additional video proof I pointed out. Further research into you shows that you come from a cop family and are a known bootlicker.

I can assure you that most cops are criminals, that they regularly disrespect citizens who do not stroke their egos, and become dangerously unprofessional anytime they think there is an opportunity to do so. Bodycam footage is a major factor now, but one only needs to do some actual research, for example the Bricks and Minifigs / Reckless Ben case, where redacted bodycam footage normally never exposed makes clear how cops actually behave when they think they can get away with it comes to light. Cops don't become cops because they have a strong philanthropic bent. They become cops because they want power over the people who picked on them in High School, or the people who know what bullies and small minded twerps they actually are when they don't have their fellow gang members to join in their crimes.

OK. I understand how you misunderstand the issue better now. You haven't thought about how time works. Is knowing meant fixing and deploying those fixes immediately then the advantage would go to the guys guys. It takes time to implement fixes and test them. Even if the fix was immediate there is a propagation issue. Patches don't roll out immediately and the landscape is huge. A vulnerability in an older version will not be treated as a priority. Sometimes patches don't make their way to production at all. Knowing doesn't fix the problem it only exposes it. Give all of this some more thought. You seem at least smart enough to see what you are missing as you perform further analysis if you do.

I get that you don't know very much about the situation and feel qualified to comment on Slashdot as though you are an expert anyway. It has been the Slashdot way for the decades I have been here. However your speculation, as indicated by your use of words like probably, give you away. While it is obviously true that *some* of these vulnerabilities are known to *some* bad actors, it is equally obvious to anyone who stops to think and be honest with themselves for even a short time that *all* of these were not known to *all* of them. Let that sink in. Now add to that the fact that *many* of these were not known to *anyone* and perhaps you can start to get a small grasp on the gravity of the change in landscape and it's danger. Claiming there is no danger and it is all just hype is so absurd I can't even think of words that express exactly how absurd.

So American nuclear weapons aren't dangerous because China also has nuclear weapons. Exactly the kind of reasoning I would expect from an AC I suppose.