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Is your argument that things are bad, so who cares if they get worse?

• gruez 5y ago
  Well in this case it's not really getting worse. The hardware you bought is already backdoored/locked down. It's like closing the stable door after the horse ran away.
  • guerrilla 5y ago
    So two (or twenty) vulnerabilities in your software isn't worse than one?
    • gruez 5y ago
      That's not a good comparison because there are multiple bad guys wanting to hack into your computer, and more vulnerabilities mean higher chance that at least one succeeds. For this, we can assume that OEMs/microsoft is on the same side, so the better analogy would be: having 20 NSA root CAs installed on my system isn't worse than only one, at least if my threat model is "NSA hacking my communications".