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  • First of all, there are better ways to deal with anything than privateering. There’s a reason why all countries in the world have abandoned it.

    Secondly, everybody is operating under the assumption that cybercrime is something that happens and there’s no way around it. I contend that if software vendors were penally responsible for vulnerabilities in their software, you’d see a dramatic reduction in hacks very, very quickly.

    As in, if a piece of software is exploited, the engineers who worked on it, their managers and the CEO of their company had better come up with extensive documentation proving how they did their best to implement security before releasing the unfortunate piece of code, else one or all of that bunch gets to spend time in the slammer.

    If this was implemented into law, I guarantee you software would become very secure across the board in no time flat.

    But of course, in the age of tech monopolies and generalized corruption, it will never happen.




  • For better or worse, China is on the verge of making American silicon completely irrelevant. I know that because I’m posting this on an ARM64 laptop rocking a Rockchip compute module and it’s plenty adequate enough for most people’s everyday needs.

    Therefore, whatever Trump has in mind to artificially maintain the US’ lead will soon be completely ineffective. Worse, the more he tries to restrict access to US technology, the faster China will develop its own equivalent and the sooner it will catch up. And hopefully, at some point, the European countries will get off their collective ass and start catching up too.

    The US is on the fast track to losing this war and a lot of others. This is a country in terminal decline.