On: Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker

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The computer will do what people tell it to do, so it’s just as plagued by human emotion and the self-interest of those who program it.

It’s just a different form of the same corrupt politics.

The biggest problem with technology is this delusion that it somehow isn’t a reflection of human failings.

If we at least admitted that then we’d be able to reason about it responsibly.