Thank you for the clarification; without context I couldn’t tell.

What “we?”

There was no meaningful point made, just a bad faith demand in defense of corporations.

it makes them seem all the more credible…

To a credulous rube like yourself, sure. Keep licking that boot! Maybe one day you can wear it!

Can we be honest about this

Saying “can we be honest” isn’t a magic spell that transmutes your opinion to fact.

patently dishonest ignore that he was effectively breaking and entering, plus installing a data harvesting device in the server room, which any organization in the world would rightfully identity as a hostile.

Worm regards.

The much directly scarier version is the “Delet This” wizard.

You sure about that, or are you hypothesizing?

Because they’re corporate bootlickers, paid or otherwise.

Look at the people that participate in “Hacker News.”

The hackers are mostly not okay. Fucking bootlickers.