Sorry, but you got offended for nothing. OP rightfully pointed out that it's crucial to link to what you're talking about... You taking it personally is completely misplaced.
Banning software is not the same as banning books, lol. Books are passive ideas, software is active and can be used for espionage. You're creating a false equivalence here.
Yes, because dirt and germs stay exactly where they're left and never move or multiply, and are always completely benign! Lol, I stand by my comment. :)
Also funny that you're calling basically the rest of the world silly for figuring this out before you.
This platform is full of people with differing opinions. Saying things like "Oh wow, just yesterday lemmy said this and now it's this!" is just stupid and doesn't make any sense.
I'm convinced a lot of it is astroturfing. It's just too perfect and consistent, with the perfect answers for everything and just the right amount of fear mongering.
Sure they can, it just isn't as simple as "just" ;) How do you, for example, determine who picked which item if two people are standing next to each other? Or if something is put back?
Sure, a proof of concept will always work. Building it for the real world is a completely and utterly different beast.
Check out openvas.
https://github.com/greenbone/openvas-scanner
I use Nessus professionally, they are somewhat similar. I can't decide which one has the worse user interface.