• BossDj@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      This is like banning usb cables

      If USB cables were used almost exclusively for illegal and just generally anti social behavior.

      I’d never heard of this thing, and it does sound fun, but this was the use case list from the paragraph calling it a “humble hobbyist device” doesn’t come across as very defensible:

      People can use them to change the channels of a TV at a bar covertly, clone simple hotel key cards, read the RFID chip implanted in pets, open and close some garage doors, and, until Apple issued a patch, send iPhones into a never-ending DoS loop.

      But also agreed on fuck those car companies that just don’t care and would rather weaponize the government than try to fix anything (without a subscription fee of course). Anti social behavior forced Kia to change their shitty grift of a product so 🤷

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          I totally get and agree this is a dumbfuck response to the problem they allege to be fixing, and hopefully their committee it whatever concludes the same, but the article didn’t mention any redeeming values for the device as you did

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                but the article didn’t mention any redeeming values for the device as you did

                This means the writer has a bias of negativity towards the device and now you are arguing that’s it’s a good thing it is being banned.

                You would vote to ban dihydrogen monoxide if you found it has been consumed by every murderer in existence and also has been found at every school shooting too

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                  I said “this is a dumbfuck response to a problem they allege to be fixing and hopefully their committee concludes the same”.

                  Translation = it’s stupid to ban it.

                  I was giving credit to that other guy for listing some redeeming qualities of the device as the article did not.