The additional point often missed in these discussions is that many consumers are buying these precisely because they know that standard "dumb" locks are trivial to pick.
They buy into the marketing that "smart" locks will protect them better.
The orders of magnitude higher price reassures them this must be true.
That is why it is significant how simple they are to bypass.
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Re: Re: Ad hominem
Learning what words mean would require reading. Not sure AC has unlocked that particular skill yet.
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Sadly with the push to criminalize everything,
the population of Unicorns > population of law abiding citizens.
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Re: Re: Extortion by any other name...
I really wish I didn't have to add that.
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They buy into the marketing that "smart" locks will protect them better.
The orders of magnitude higher price reassures them this must be true.
That is why it is significant how simple they are to bypass.
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Re: Coming sooner...
The government already has shown a willingness to operate CP servers, a botnet would just help fill their "toolbox".
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This may be true, but we shouldn't have to.
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Re: Re: Give 'em what they want
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My first thought was I wonder who is gearing up to run against Martin J. Walsh that Verizon is so afraid of.
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Request please
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Re: Ed Snowden
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Wiping your phone is still giving them YOUR phone, do you want to wait until they decide to return it to you, if the ever do?
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Everyone knows that the only reason people read Techdirt is to see Whatever crash.
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Re: Re: Re: cruel and unusual punishment
It's not bug.
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If people on list cannot_______________ (we'll start with "come into our country", but it could be anything).
Then the bigger the list the more people cannot_______________
Followed by, since so many people cannot do _______________anyway, we might as well get rid of _______________
It is the new workaround for that pesky constitution thingy.
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Well Duh!
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Crowd sourced lobbyist for hire.
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