this is a very unique device, once its cost gets reduced to a more available price, MANY MANY new things will pop up that microsoft never had planned, as most of the things shown were not imagined by the main development team.just like any device, hackers will a. program for it, and b. make it do things never imaginedwhat your saying about the Surface is exactly what so many others said about normal PCs, and the Internet, without which none of this exchange would have been possible