Unless the VM was perfect, you never used the host OS for anything except running the VM, and you restored the VM from a backup on non-rewritable media whenever you used the bank, it wouldn't provide the kind of security a live CD would. And if all of these conditions are met, usability is less than that of a live CD.

Unless we'd be the equivalent of netbooks, attached to some giant external hivemind, we'd be stuck with tiny brains.

..someone is trying to hack you. So you have to check whether or not it's set either way. The way it is now, that's all you have to check. With your proposal, after checking that, you'd after have to check what it's set to. Which would be more code to write, and run slower, without giving any more functionality.

Which has the little problem of bad (e.g. government spy) peers. Enough of those and your anonymity = bye bye. In a darknet you only add people you trust.

As long as it's customizable (in how it communicates, not just what color the GUI is), why would you need more than one?

Mum.

I'm not saying it's the network admins' faults.
I'm saying it's Ubisoft's for pulling this shit and then not even doing it right.

If they had enough money, they should have done it right.
If they hadn't enough money, they shouldn't have done it.

But it is only viewable after purchase..

You mean the one that isn't presented until after you've already purchased the (non-refundable) product which has implied fitness for use?

Right, because Ubisoft is dirt poor.

Oh wait, they just spent millions of dollars for the sole purpose of fucking over their customers and encouraging piracy! Oops. Looks like they have some money to spare.

You aren't.

The hackers would just make a program that requests all of the data automatically. They wouldn't need to play through it themselves.

Following that logic, Al-Qaeda aren't Islamic.

FDE + temp sensor in RAM that trashes the key if it's cooled = you don't have to trust them at all. Just be sure to pick an OS that won't need rebooted ever. And disable 1394.

If it needs to be secure through reboots, you'll have to find/make a case that destroys the drives if someone opens/breaches it.

So ya, some measures need taken, but it's far from impossible.