TeamAssimilation

Its company property, you don’t go putting stickers on company printers or the walls of your office. And it’s not about resale value, it’s about corporate and professional image. We’re free to destructively mod our personal equipments, but not those of others.

Parent comment meant willingly. People weren’t agreeing to install Backorifice even then.

Holy cow that’s a very real danger I hadn’t thought! The industry needs a new trend to reuse all this capacity they built, because AI will likely scale back as many startups fail to reach profit. Renting your home computer might be the next trend, and it could be gratis at first so people get used to it. Why spy on users when you can actually own their computers?