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That's great until your device is weaponised against others (see: open HTTP proxies, open DNS resolvers, open SMTP servers, several billion IoT devices, and countless other examples)

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Those issues could be diminished if ISPs actually handled abuse requests and shut down people's connections until they removed their malware.

> shut down people's connections until they removed their malware.

Yes, in an ideal world, that might work but most people don't actually know they have malware. That's the point of the malware! And it's not like you can say "no internet for you until you replace your TV[0]" because that's an extremely quick way to the courts and a customer reputation below the toilet.

(Ignoring the "who pays for that?" question because that is a whole 'nother can of worms.)

[0] https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/fbi-google-disrupt-proxy-network-a...

Exactly, which is why we shouldn’t be allowing user “software installs” on any device, not just phones. The world would be a lot better if all tech were fully locked down, “freedom” be damned.

Ideally we should just let the government write the software, and they'd be able to verify that there's no dangers to grandma anywhere in the system.

It would be foolproof, maybe the most trustworthy system ever conceived.

While we're at it, let's also mandate the destruction of every general-purpose computing device incapable of secure boot or allowing it to be deactivated. And if someone dares to build a homebrew CPU out of relays, transistors, or logic ICs, they should expect the FBI to break down their door.

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