Re: Software Defined Idiots
It's like drones. As long as most flying hardware was for very interested people, and usually available in specialized channels, at not so low prices, there were usually very little issues. The day every idiot can find one, and prices are low, it will get one and find an idiot way to use it.
People listening to police/firefighters and ATC frequencies have been doing it for a long time. Just nobody ever thought to interfere (but in very rare cases)
The issue is exactly this, how to identify the idiots. Knives are dangerous, but it's easy to identify an idiot branding a knife. And we're told since childhood knives are dangerous. It's worse when people act without thinking about the consequences. Drunk people do kill people driving. Is it driving or drinking bad per se? No it's the combination of both, idiots who can't think about the consequences of what they do. That's why car have a plate, to be identified. Too often, without accountability, some people may too easily become irresponsible..
Biting the hand that feeds IT
