What is the worst tech company, and why?

It’s the one that brags in all of their SW applications Powered by, but! doesn’t want to pay the market salaries of the development team & tries to pay them as least as possible. Also, is the one who cuts projects based on cost but wants the best functionalities.

Any company that lacks transparency is pretty much on that list. The less transparent companies are the more the shady stuff is going on behind the scenes.

Would you define some of the entities who specialize in malware, particularly ransomware, as companies?

Because I would have to say them.

All the other candidates at least have a layer of (loosely) defined ethics.

I would have to say, because I've been inside the company and written code for them and done a lot of work around them, I would have to say Microsoft as the worst. I just don't find them all that savvy in some ways.Maybe now things have changed, it's been a couple of years. I see a lot of changes, but I just think that they're going after a very large market in private cloud and industrial cloud, that they're not going to be able to... They'll take a lead maybe from the cloud position, but I wouldn't trust any of them in the sense of the security. It's just too easy to plug your way in.

I've spent a fair amount of time looking for good parental controls. First of all, I absolutely agree. There's none that work the way that I want them to. It's one of those things where it's security in depth, parental control in depth.