IPv6 was a bad standard that is what you get when you get when you allow engineers to develop protocol updates without an ounce of concern for ease of migration from IPv4. Other than address scarcity there is no real reason to move to IPv6 now as it doesn't really solve any technical challenges with the modern internet like network locality and station handoffs etc.

More likely, Trump demanded the contract to be awarded to Microsoft because his petty spat with Bezos and the WaPo. They had to backfill the justification to support his demands.

I do exactly what they say in the article. Buy a 15$ shell, then remove it when you travel somewhere potentially sensitive.

I've been told by a few infosec types that laptop stickers actually DETER the average petty crook because it can make them potentially individually identifiable.