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>"The manufacturer had the power to remotely disable devices and used it against me for blocking their data collection."

He posits that some low-level support person triggered a remote "kill switch" because he dared to block some telemetry servers which is, frankly, ridiculous.

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He didn't posit that it was a manual action, only that the kill command came over the network.

So what's your explanation?

A much simpler explanation is that the device disabled itself after being unable to contact the cloud servers for X time (probably a bug), rather than an employee sending a kill command over the now-disabled cloud connection.

The article is obviously AI-written, and also I very much doubt that these conclusions were reached without a sycophantic AI in their ear.

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