Individuals can change the world. Groups with ideology can change the world.

This is why many of us are here at HN- for the discussion of ideas and for idealism.

Few want to be supreme jerks that ruin things on a massive scale.

Zuck, if you’re reading this- thanks for being part of the thing that allowed me to continue communication with my friends when they weren’t nearby, and thanks for continuing to provide that for my children.

Are things fucked up? Were lives ruined? Sure. We all fuck shit up and ruin lives, some of us more than others. Then we own up to that as much as we can and use what we have left to try to continue doing what we did before to try to make the world a better place.

Second, as a user, you’d want to handle the case where some or all of these have been fully compromised. Surreptitiously, super-intelligently, and partially or fully autonomously, one container or many may have access to otherwise isolated networks within homes, corporate networks, or some device in a high security area with access to a nuclear weapons, biological weapons, the electrical grid, our water supply, our food supplies, manufacturing, or even some other key vulnerability we’ve discounted, like a toy.

While providing more isolation is good, there is no amount of caution that can prevent calamity when you give everyone a Pandora’s box. It’s like giving someone a bulletproof jacket to protect them from fox tapeworm cancer or hyper-intelligent, time-traveling, timespace-manipulating super-Ebola.

That said, it’s the world we live in now, where we’re in a race to our demise. So, thanks for the bulletproof jacket.