Thankfully, there are a finite number of old bugs. Unless new bugs are introduced at least as fast as old ones are found and fixed, the bug-pocalypse should ebb.

Even without the silly "$minimum wage to $million dollar" game, you can still advertise a very-low-end-of-industry-standard actual day-1 salary range with a clear statement along the lines of "opportunity for very large increase after 30 days" or something like that, and get the word out that you really mean it.

So, if you are advertising for a job that you are willing to pay 100K-150K/year for depending on qualifications, but the industry range is 80K-150K and you want to avoid posting your real salary, post "80K starting salary" on the job board but post ads in trade publications and online that say "ignore our starting salary, that's just for the first 30 days."

Then wait to see if the government will change the law or not.

This is no surprise. When a new bug-hunting technique comes along, it's bound to find lots of things that weren't easy to find with existing techniques but are easy to find with the new technique.

In a few months the "very easy to find" bugs will be found, and a few months later the "easy to find" ones will be identified, and the thousands-of-new-bugs-every-month that you are seeing in the kernel and from Microsoft will get back down to more reasonable levels.

I know of some offices where the staff-only network is for corporate-owned machines, staff are only allowed to connect their personal devices to the guest network.

Those personal devices, which won't have any government info on them, may be to blame.

Until someone says that this isn't the case here, we can't rule it out.

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Even if this is the case, it's still a problem that government employees are allowing personal devices to be infected. It could potentially leave them open to geographic and other types of profiling that could endanger them and the country they work for.

Corruption involving government officials and their friends and families? Say it isn't so.

For all we know this could be the guest WiFi network intended for visitors to use.

Vogon or Klingon? Asking for a friend.

Requiring students to appear on-campus or requiring them to fill out a sworn affidavit in front of a notary public who will check their ID will deter money mules.

Exceptions for students unable to access a notary public (think people living in very rural areas) would need to be handled on a case-by-case basis.

"the world's limited supply of DRAM"

The world's constrained supply of DRAM should ease in 2-5 years, at which point his argument, such as it is, will be much weaker.

That said, from an economy-of-scale and efficient-use-of-resources perspective, centralization makes sense. But form a privacy, autonomy, actual-ownership, and personal freedom perspective, it's a disaster waiting to happen.

doesn't have a Wikipedia article either.

Tivo came after the analog VCR. Affordable VCRs made time-shifting a thing.

But with a sufficient number of fiber-seeking backhoes* censorship will always be possible.

*"fiber-seeking backhoes" being a stand-in for whatever disrupts the physical layer of the network stack. Substitute radio jammers, power disruptions, etc. as appropriate for your target's network.

The technical person would say it's a collection of protocols and the hardware and software that implement them. The information that happens to be hosted there, other than of course the information necessary to keep the internet functioning (routing tables, DNS records, etc.), is not "the internet."

There is no need for the internet as defined above to die, unless something better has displaced it and almost nobody is using it anymore (BITNET anyone?).