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> On MY computer, I run what I want. You can always do so, as long as you're not connected to the internet. In the same way that on your property you can drive

> On MY computer, I run what I want. You can always do so, as long as you're not connected to the internet. In the same way that on your property you can drive what you want, but on the road there are minimum standards of safety that are supposed to be met, and some authority might enforce them. I completely relate to the "who moved my cheese?" effect, but unpatched internet connected software affects more than just yourself. This is not giving companies that completely disable software that could otherwise be hardened with some minimal loss of functionality (like disabling the old Office equation editor) a pass.

LoganDark 4y ago
Being connected to the internet is nothing like being a car on a road... it's more like joining a "crowd" of "people", with each "person" being another internet-connected computer, and the "crowd" being the network. The recent "pandemic" has taught everyone a lot about virus-spread stuff, so it's an appropriate analogy in my opinion. Vulnerable pieces of software can be exploited to receive or transmit viruses. The viruses spread through the crowd to anyone who is vulnerable. But just because someone spread the virus doesn't mean an authority is going to crack down on them for being intentionally reckless. If you crash into somebody on the road however...