Why are only workers to blame here?
Companies themselves are driven by sales and profit targets, nearly every one. And nearly every one is potentially pushing the envelope of acceptance in making their numbers. This is why for-profit education and healthcare, tobacco, fast food, sugar, oil, GMOs, and nearly everything else driven by profit is suspect: because people will do what it takes to sell potentially bad stuff to you in the name of making their numbers.

A "kill sledgehammer" works for the same reasons.

These security experts wouldn't recommend it, but they're relying on security through obscurity.
Think about it, but don't actually think about *it* because that might endanger the security experts.

All that is just a different technology, taking advantage of a different tech baseline environment.
If I had to make it without technology of any sort I'd quickly starve and die, as would we all.

I'm also wondering if we'll eventually be eating modified cow-carcass torsos raised in an enclosed factory and connected to input and output tubes, making veal-raising look like organic farming.

Especially if these new aircraft come free with a subscription to the wireless network that supports them.

He's the scammer formerly known as Prince.

i will keep this in mind the next time I drive to Australia. I'd hate to miss it entirely.

I'm worried about evil-doers attaching nasty stuff to drones and sending them into crowds like a packed stadium. Prolly not a good idea to allow flying things near crowds until they can be regulated, monitored, controlled.

Arrrh, matey! In honor of Walt Disney, it's copy like a pirate day!

Add to this the great volume of doctors, interns, nurses, technicians, assistants, etc. that need access to these understaffed and overly busy places, and that come and go frequently. You arrive at a unit in the hospital and everything is password protected, all the passwords are different, and you need to get into many of them to do your job and help people in various stages of critical need. Nobody has taken the time to tell you what the common passwords are (for getting into locked rooms) or even given you your personal authorization to get at med dispensing machines, because they don't have the 15 minutes needed to do that (they'll get to this a little later when the breathing is stabilized or the pain is addressed). Don't be surprised that security is squarely in the way of getting things done, but make it easier for people to survive and be productive in this kind of environment.

It's official - we live in a post-factual democracy.
Sympathies to all my fellow EU citizens, and especially to my ex-EU UK unfortunates.

You can still buy a toilet with a tank over it too.
We shouldn't be building any of these until we make an effort to max out renewables.

I'd rather believe he's joking than serious. forget spaghetti - replace Russell's teapot with a gamer?
"Prove me wrong - you can't do it" is not proof you're right.

...I also use several of the listed options, but if I had to name one that best protected my data, outside of military defense, it would be local backup.
OK, the military option was a lame joke.