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deepflows  ·  3393 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Everything is Broken - computers are terrible and everything is hackable

Well, this was sobering.

So, now what?

"We the people have to get together and use our collective power if the world is going to be unfucked" is not exactly limited to the world of computing. We aren't getting our collective shit together as we face possible extinction via being cooked. We can't get our shit together to stop 0,0001% of the population raping the majority with a huge stick made out of money and interest and corruption. Will we get our shit together to do something about 0days and people hijacking our webcams? Somehow I doubt it.

So, if collective action isn't going to happen and individual security is doomed by crappy libraries and useless tools - well, everyone just get Win10, make their password "12345" and hope the guy just using our PC to DDOS an online casino wins the fight over our box?