Let me introduce you to TypeScript applications written vibe coding style.

It's about to get a whole lot worse.

My employer has been trying to get people back in the office.

For years now, I've been telling my bosses that I just won't do it and that they are free to fire me.

3 years this has been going on. Haven't been fired, won't be fired, and won't attend the office, at all. And if by some chance they do grow the balls to fire me, I'll have another job within the week.

Work from home is here to stay.

Good. Jobs that can be automated, should and must be automated. There is no sense in keeping warm bums in seats doing jobs a machine can do.

Speaking as a non-American who has never lived in America...

Kennedy is, if not the most well known, then at least in the top 3 or top 5 of well known American presidents world wide.

With Washington, Lincoln, and umm? Eisenhower? I think you had a couple of Roosevelt's right? Oh! Truman! Yes yes we all remember Clinton and Bush and Obama, but we foreigners will be educated about Washington and Lincoln and Kennedy for decades to come. Clinton? Meh.

Why?

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that weâ(TM)re willing to accept."

"Awfully nice burger I'm making for you here. Be a shame if something happened to it."

Does American tipping culture not sound incredibly broken to you? You're already paying for a product or service. Having to bribe the server not to spit in your food sounds like 3rd world hell to me.

So you're the "Florida Man" we all hear about constantly?

Seriously. What a ridiculous complaint. Pooh English? It read like English is not their first language, and frankly they did a good job taking down the CT nutcase they are responding to.

Your xenophobic blather added no value at all.

OP - your English is fine. Mods, do your job and rate this xenophobic nonsense down.

It was however a disgustingly convoluted and imprecise way of saying that.

No, no he isn't.

So the pollution should be checked every day. No surprise for anyone, and the regulators will have daily data to work with.

Clicky

Why bother? Under Linux:

setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' /path/to/bin/program

Criminals have IT departments too

https://www.theregister.co.uk/...

In the case above, the sysadmin was actually the weak link - as people always are

I'll put it like this. Encryption is math. It's awfully hard to legislate against math in any meaningful way.

If the backdoors applied only to consumer and business services, ejabberd could well be a good replacement. Again, self signed certs would keep the contents of communications private.

Even if all public (open+closed source) encryption libraries were backdoored at the source level, a dedicated criminal organisation is perfectly capable of funding a clean room implementation of any given encryption and communication standard.

In fact, they would probably drive significant innovation in the field. Good for business if you don't get caught after all.

The cat's out of the bag. Running around with fingers in our ears screaming lalalala and wishing for the good old days is not going to achieve a damn thing

Problems:

Due to the vast number of providers and consumers of said VPS services across the world, it's practically impossible to enforce any background checks at point of purchase with any consistency. So you're going to need to wait till the site itself is mentioned/linked/implicated during an existing investigation before its even in your radar.

Credit card fraud - need I say more?

Bitcoin bullet proof hosting - a little effort up front makes tracing the bitcoin much harder, plus those bullet proof providers probably don't ask too many questions

Site hopping - Move to a new server every 2 weeks or whatever. How invested are you in your cause?

But the main thrust of my point was that widespread technologies already exist that allow easy roll-your-own solutions for the people/organisation who actually would be legitimate targets for surveillance. So backdooring consumer services is at best pointless regulatory masturbation and at worst a gross misdirection to allow erosion of people's rights and bring on an Orwellian dystopia.

Also. I suspect the major terror and criminal organisations already have sorted out their internet hosting infrastructure. It's 2019 after all.