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I don’t think it’s an agenda, I think it’s just poorly delivered. The facts are:
Teen hacks corps using a Fire Stick.
Teen has done something novel with proprietary hardware.
I think it’s safe to assume that he’s intelligent and creative based on those two things. With proper guidance from the right kinds of people (including parents), someone like that could eventually put those talents to use on someone’s Red Team, or working with an intelligence agency, rather than doing something illegal to stretch their wings (fuck big corporations, but the law is what it is).
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to note that his talents will be wasted by grinding him down in the justice system.
Agreed on all. I just wish that Hackaday presented those points as well as you did, and followed up on them with, for example, criminal justice experts, psychiatrists, educators, etc. The article has none of these, it doesn’t gather supporting evidence to make an informed opinion, it basically reads like a very long tweet.