If someone should do something, and they don't, we make a law to force them to.
Unless you live where I do, then you make the law and those not doing what they are supposed to do (and the new law mandates) still don't do it and just say the law does not apply to them for whichever bizarre reason comes to their mind in that moment.
That's a strawman argument. It's natural for security minded folks to "jab" at Microsoft (in a manner similar to how safety advocates "jab" at lead-painted Chinese toys).
On a SANE OS, rootkits can't be installed by regular users who are viewing a banner ad, or plugging in a storage device like a memory stick or USB picture frame.
So, I think the answer to that is: there aren't any "sane" OSs available for the general public. Only highly controlled and restricted machines are configured like that for everyday use. In all other, eventually at least one full-privilege user or operation has to be present.
What? Another case of government-induced neurosis?
I'm sorry to say (and maibe becoming flame-bait) but the US governmend, along with UK and a couple more, have turned their citizens into neurotically-controlled persons afraid of anything that they believe to recognize as a "terrorist" threath.
An 11 years-old boy now? really?
What's next, 6 years-old's bicycle can be used to hide a "zero-point quantum device" from the future?
WAKE UP!
deleted I suspect that publicly owned corps just don't have the freedom to actually express humanitarian interest the way a private corp would.deleted
True, but this is mostly because the "executives" (execu-tigres, they are called in D.R.) don't want to take the risk of reducing their bonuses, remember that they are run by followers of the God named "Money" and nothing else matters. Any "corporate social responsibility" announcements aren't anything more than public relations
As you can see, I don't trust corporations too much, I have seen them flip on hyper-loyal employees for simple things
That situation is the same with all the european conuntries that had "colonies" in America, especially Spain. My reasoning is that because the people that TODAY make up the country did not live trough that period, and history is such a boring subject for many, the knowledge about historic causality about today's situation y most countries below the US-Mexico border is ignored by the people.
At the time of the colonies, most of us were teached only to be slaves and not have any initiative, and that is why anyone can see that latin-americans in general when raised in an organized country that supports self-betterment usually can get ahead and be successful. Of course, there are many that get there already older (mor than 10 years old) that are already "broken" and is very hard to make them change their ways.
"I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android