The message is clear. If you find a vulnerability, don't go to a tech bro, hat in hand, hoping for a reward. Flog it on the dark web to the highest bidder.

You sound like a typical blowboy for Corporate Socialism. Social Darwinism for the masses, welfare handouts for the corporations.

The irony is that before the internet, it was a lot more difficult to find plans for building a guillotine.

I loved that show!

A person with hacking experience and an appalling sense of humour could modify the speech output into something like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grA5XmBRC6g

I'm not sure why Americans are upset. You got what you voted for.

American exceptionalism is such fun to watch. One cannot help but be amused by the irony of a country full of people who believe a 120 hour work week leads to innovation, but who have somehow managed to forget that European and Japanese auto manufacturers have been eating the lunch of their US counterparts for decades. Ralph Nader wrote "Unsafe At Any Speed" back in the 60s, fer crapsake, but most of the improvements in US automobiles came about only because of pressure from technologically superior imports.

Thanks for a genuine LOL moment!

Ukraine is doing a pretty good job of intercepting Russian drones. Funny that US bases in the Middle East have been rendered unusable by Iran's very similar, "last generation" drones.

I genuinely wish your comment was more satire than plain truth.

Given the explosion of sports betting, how long will it be before there's a lottery to pick the first athlete to die of a stroke or heart failure that can be linked clearly to performance enhancing drugs?

Put me down for a hundred bucks, a weight lifter and October 31, 2028.

Within a hundred yard radius of my home are several high rise apartment buildings, two pubs, the entrance to three parks (one of which winds between significant transportation routes, a Canadian Legion, a drug store, and a bunch of other stuff. Barely outside that radius is a school, and several more high rises.

So in my case, that little bit of "fuzzing" spells anonymity. My point, though, is that even the smallest steps can help. If you're really serious, there's a lot more you can do without a lot of drama. I personally like the idea of "muddying the data pool" because it's something that can be done by average people without a lot of technological expertise. The larger the number of people involved, the more unreliable that pool becomes. That's all we want, really...to mess up the efforts of government and corporations to thrust themselves into every area of our lives.

Steps can be taken to make casual surveillance by police and other bad actors a little more difficult, such as turning off location services unless you really need them enabled. As far as I can see, though, the only way to keep the long, flexible nose of our government and corporate rulers out of our business is to poison the data pool. In this particular case, I'd just start with the consideration that there's no requirement for your phone and you to always be in the same place.

I like the poetic justice involved in me ordering plans for a guillotine from that thumbhead pr^ck Bezos.

All you have to do is look what happens when an entertainment giant like Disney gets hold of a franchise. They run it into the ground. Some franchises ruined by corporate greed (not all Disney): Star Trek, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Mulan, Pirates of the Caribbean, the MCU...probably a lot more if I googled around a bit.

Mega-corporations want maximum profits, and they don't care how much damage they do getting them. And in current business terms, "maximum profits" means wring the asset dry, discard it and move on to the next acquisition. The idea of steady, long-term profitability seems to have died.

Less competition means less innovation, and when one CEO only has to call three other CEOs to figure out how they're going to divide up the pie, there's virtually none.