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All of this is moot if essential services like government or banking require root of trust attestation that is only available on windows. New chips already have Microsoft's pluton core.

I imagine it's like how weed grow houses don't have snow on the roof in winter, it's kind of hard to hide a MW scale bitcoin mining operation.

Moderation can't scale over populations around the world with entirely different attitudes and behaviors. Enforcing a global moderation consensus is about as effective as the UN.

He was also fined by the Washington Attorney General for spreading malware.

https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s...

You're probably thinking of this:

https://www.eurogamer.net/did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-...

Who demolished the factories?

By that standard nuclear blackmail is successful 100% of the time.

I agree. I think it speaks to the trend to attempt to find technological or bureaucratic solutions to what are fundamentally social problems. More of these problems will crop up as society shifts from high trust to low trust.

Armoring flight deck doors has also killed at least ~400 people so far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525