I wrote a little about this also but strangely can't find it now. Good to see your article persisting!

It's true they broke a whole stack of rules with this development, and it should never be forgotten. This was the moment we got scared of our devices, at least some of them, and got rid of the ones least trustworthy.

Imho, it needs to be sorted out.

We can't have a situation where we think a device like a PC or whatever might explode if we just say the wrong thing, like we don't approve of the genocide, or we want to see a survivable planet.

Personally I've always been heavily involved in technology, so know enough to use devices in a way that gives me reasonable peace of mind, but how must it be for folk with no clue how these things work, the dystopia just ramped up a few notches right there.

It's actually on the scale of James Bond arch-enemy "Spectre" level terrorism, the indiscriminate yet vaguely targeted detonation of a mass of devices, distributed throughout a population.

Seeing governments accept and even condone this, rather than despatching whatever real world equivalents we have to "James Bond" to go get the villains, we have to wonder where it stops.

What other mass terror events in recent history might not have been accidental, but actually known and condoned by governments?