I was just thinking today how long will it be until Windows is turned into a weapon. I know I know, but its not really paranoid to think that anymore is it? Imagine the chaos around the world caused by Windows machines simultaneously reformatting hard disks except in America.
Considering they are trying to economically extort Ukraine for resources using Starlink access. Probably not too far away? The US does have a history of this, it's how anti-drug laws were exported to much of the world, they were pressured with economic threats by the USA to adopt them.
This is a strange statement given it's the UK, not the US, that currently poses the greatest threat to OS weaponization via what they're trying to make Apple do with backdoor access.
UK is trying to use it for surveillance. While it's hypothetical at this point to suggest the US mandating a built-in mechanism to wipe any specified hard drive by remote command, the economic danger from that is much greater than the damage from spying: the latter allows unfair competition; but given how widespread systems are, the former shuts down a country, could kill millions by starvation just from messing with logistics systems.
It's really funny to me that people are so partisan. You only worry about backdoors under Trump? As if the CIA has not be orchestrating coups around the world for half a century?
Of course they have, but not usually to their supposed allies. If realignment severs the ties between Europe and the US, then that no longer holds. Nothing partisan about that.
I guess Microsoft would like to maintain trust by their customers. The attack vector is the other direction, if Trump missteps and tries to use force on EU member states, EU will use its economic “bazooka” which for instance would especially target firms like Microsoft.
