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Re:Ten Year Futures by desdiv on Thursday May 04, 2017 @01:29AM (#14262649)
All I see is praise for Tesla on HN. I rarely see sentiments like "Tesla makes great cars, but I just wish their ECU and other critical systems wasn't internet connected" or "I refuse to buy any Tesla products until they remove the constant user tracking".

People vote with their wallets, and if the technology-savvy and privacy-conscious HN crowd is voting this way then...

Re:Ten Year Futures by Pica_soO on Thursday May 04, 2017 @02:42AM (#14262972)
.. nothing changes. We are too small of a group, even as influencers to change that.

However, if someday a zeroday is used to duke it out, a very angry, very unreasonable, not interested PR-Bla and Excuses crowd is going to assemble outside someones office tower. The someone will call the police, but the police will be busy, with the mess someones ECU peeping has made. The privat guards will do what private guards always do, if they see no good outcome for themselves and step aside. The escape helicopter pilot will have lost loved ones in the mess and take off. Someone is going to get shoved out the airlock, for all the other someones to see. That will have a interesting learning effect. Thus ended the lesson.

Re:Ten Year Futures by lyqwyd on Thursday May 04, 2017 @01:57AM (#14262765)
It's almost 1984