That's a spicy meatball!

I would consider this to be a MAJOR issue!
Not encoding data before sending it? Is this the 1990s?
This is how you get all kinds of problems.
Didn't they learn from Bobby Tables?
https://xkcd.com/327/

On the other Foot:
Microsoft Opens Source to China

Reader NZheretic points out that less than a year ago, Jim Allchin swore under oath that disclosing the Windows operating system source code could damage national security.

Transcript of Internet Caucus Panel Discussion
Re: Administration's new encryption policy. Date: September 28, 1999.
Weldon statement.

Rep. Curt Weldon : Thank you. Let me see if I can liven things up here in the last couple of minutes of the luncheon. First of all, I apologize for being late. And I thank Bob and the members of the caucus for inviting me here.
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But the point is that when John Hamre briefed me, and gave me the three key points of this change, there are a lot of unanswered questions. He assured me that in discussions that he had had with people like Bill Gates and Gerstner from IBM that there would be, kind of a, I don't know whether it's a, unstated ability to get access to systems if we needed it., Now, I want to know if that is part of the policy, or is that just something that we are being assured of, that needs to be spoke. Because, if there is some kind of a tacit understanding, I would like to know what it is.
Because that is going to be subjected to future administrations, if it is not written down in a clear policy way. I want to know more about this end use certificate. In fact, sitting on the Cox Committee as I did, I saw the fallacy of our end use certificate that we were supposedly getting for HPCs going into China, which didn't work. So, I would like to know what the policies are. So, I guess what I would say is, I am happy that there seems to be a coming together. In fact, when I first got involved with NSA and DOD and CIS, and why can't you sit down with industry, and work this out. In fact, I called Gerstner, and I said, can't you IBM people, and can't you software people get together and find the middle ground, instead of us having to do legislation.

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Compared with all the AI slop that is being trust upon us, It all looks so dated.

Ah, I see. I read that wrong!

How about the other part of the article:
This change has been shown to regress some workloads significantly.
One reports regressions in various spec benchmarks, with up to 600% slowdown.

Kessler syndrome

I have been running Wayland + Xorg for a few years now without issues.
With the release of KDE Plasma 6.1, I have now uninstalled Xorg.
I am now Wayland only.

Genesis - Jesus He Knows Me (Official Music Video)

Not to be confused with Ghost's cover

I'm sorry but every fiction franchise that has been gobbled by the Disney corporation has become so utterly repeatedly overdone to the point of just becoming boring to endure.
I haven't seen a Marvel/DC/Star Wars movie in a cinema for over seven years & have utterly regretted the utter waste of time watching the few I have seen on streaming services.
Give us newly authored fiction & characters, not rehashed tropes from decades ago.

I agree ...and I am Canadian.
This just proves to me that the government does not understand the internet.
Companies like Facebook and Google have been helping Canadian news companies by driving traffic to the news sites. They don't even charge news orgs for the service!
But then someone comes along and says, "hey, Google and Facebook have lots of money. We want some of that. You should keep referring people to us AND pay us for the privilege!"
Government is SHOCKED when G/F say "No thanks, news isn't our core business and that is just crazy".
News companies are at risk of losing over half of their traffic as a result.
Good thing the government is protecting Canadian business.

Crypto-Gram January 15, 2002 by Bruce Schneier

Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products. (Note to Gartner: The vulnerabilities will come, a couple of them a week, for years and years ... until people stop looking for them. Waiting six months isn't going to make this OS safer.)

"unstated ability to get access to systems"