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Comment Ban on updates?! And more distinctions without ... (Score 2) 75

... a difference. What's the fear here, that they might be using your router maliciously? They might introduce some payload to attack your internal network or something similar? Aren't these already illegal, like in federal pound-me-in-the-ass illegal (well, to the extent you can prosecute some foreign state-backed actors)?

What's this going to do, the ones doing the update already have a backdoor (or a front door if you wish). This is just potentially leaving other doors open.

Also, all this small and big and feature versus bug fix ... why all the bother? Of course they can say any update is of any kind they'd like to say. I've got from much bigger vendors update after update with some nondescript (paraphrasing here) "fixing some issues" that it makes everything just for show.

Comment Re:What could possibly go wrong? (Score 4, Interesting) 178

You think migration is bad now, wait until "undesirable" people start mass migrating from unlivable areas.

It may go the opposite direction. If current water & agricultral "haves" become "have-nots" and vice versa due to changes in weather there will be endless wars as the "haves" try to maintain their position.

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