Because no one ever got fired for buying IBM.

The way the system autodeletes the exploit trigger makes it sound like it was less a bug and more a backdoor.

I mean, the cartoonish evil was making the backdoor in the first place. This is just inept.

From what I’ve heard, the POC worked.

Don’t worry, soon the folks in charge will come to the inevitable conclusion that the government systems are all compromised, so clearly the only solution is to privatise them and have thevNSA run by Palantir.

It’s fun to see the stock market itself reach the ultimate phase of enshitification

Exactly. I punch you in the head with Harris, you’re gonna escalate that shit right back and punch me with Trump. Consequences for actions is justice. It doesn’t matter if you’re too stupid to understand why you deserve those consequences.

Unless, of course, they’re Arab-Americans. Never forget, never forgive, right?

And that is the risk they accepted, same as many of those “immigrants, queer people, women, leftists, and plenty of others”, and I’m gonna guess you too, accepted the risk of supporting the party that, as you said yourself, “absolutely deserves blame for abandoning them, lying to them, and treating their lives as disposable”. And if you consider that something to neither forgive nor forget, then you also must understand that you did, in fact have something to do with their abandonment too.

So, you’re angry at them for being willing to throw the people who were willing to throw them under the bus under the bus?

I’d guess part of the plan is that it wouldn’t.

Those are not contrary, but complementary things.

Alternatively, if it suddenly starts working, we know they aren’t writing it.

It’s to make it easier to port them to cloud, for when win12 makes your PC a thin client.

Unironically, yes

I’ve heard multiple stories of people spending stupid money on goldplated Trump $1000 bills and trying to deposit them in a bank.

If I were a more paranoid kind, I’d wonder if it has anything to do with Valve getting behind Linux.

win11 is a shitshow coming from win10

Calling it: win12 will have a thin client cloud hosted SaaS edition, for those who can’t afford new ai-priced hardware.