After publication of a front-page Seattle Times feature Sunday on Brinc Drones and its remarkable 22-year-old CEO Blake Resnick, a drone technology expert drew attention in a social media post to a December story by the investigative journalism outlet The Intercept — a much darker tale about an earlier Resnick project that envisaged using drones to track and even attack people.
Resnick in an interview Monday apologized for the project, which he began when he was 16 and abandoned four years ago before it was ever deployed. He blamed his immaturity and insisted he regrets doing it.
He said he's taken to heart the imperative that his company will never make such drones.
