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IDK about "legally obligated", but certainly professionally and ethically obligated.

If someone commits a heinous crime, and you want them to rot in jail for 100 years, then you need them to have the strongest possible defence. Otherwise, they might be able to appeal their conviction, or the family of the accused may feel vindictive.

Basically, if you want justice you need the best possible defence.

That's just semantics.

Making a dark joke about a terrorist attack isn't very nice.

Israel sent explosive pagers to hesbollah.

Maybe a call centre operated by map producers, intended more for questions about routes and conditions rather than "take the third left" kind of navigation.

Maaaaaybe. I think the actual advantages over other methods are fairly intangible.

If "surfing the web" required making many very small anonymous payments every hour then yeah, there's advantages. I'll admit that doesn't actually sound terrible - I'd rather pay a few cents to read articles than the current advertising & subscription model.

As a solution for mozilla in isolation though, it would be an over engineered solution with too much baggage. Current mozilla users might have the aptitude for something like this but Mozilla wants to seduce a larger market share which is not people like us.

I would but no one would be interested

There are 2 important factors.

1. Very few people are doing their research and making a logical decision about who will best represent their interests. They will just vote for whoever their friends vote for.

2. The way the president is elected through the electoral college means that a few states are over represented. IDK the numbers but for example, it might be possible to become president with as few as 40% of the votes.

There are certainly criticisms to be made but "dismantling the entire thing" is not the way.

This is the solution.

All names have problems but this one has the least.

This was always the conspiracy. I don't really buy it though. Having firefox' user base default to Google search is worth something.

Because crypto just has such a stink on it.

It may well be a reasonable solution for this specific problem, but still... no one is going to get behind this.

Ok so after a quick read it looks like they bundled some software which allowed third parties to eavesdrop on https traffic with a fairly trivial hack?

I've had lenovo laptop's forever. I could be described as a fan boy. I'd never heard about this. It's never nice to hear that something you're a fan of has problems like this.

I guess the only mitigating factor is that it wasn't intentional on Lenovo's part.