Tl;dr: Palo Alto acquired yet another company founded by a former Unit 8200 (Israel spy unit) general.

Conclusion: You can’t trust proprietary security solutions (obviously), especially from US.

Nah, vulture capital.

Because even US secret services (multiple of them) say so.

Complex theme, so less pushback. I only said “somewhat”. But at least the federal court is competent.

Yeah okay. But what i have issues with; it is yet another step away from the people (something medium+ sized democracies already struggle with), leading politicians to make decisions in their own interest instead of for the imaginary numbers. On top of that, member states often move the unqualified but powerful/loved politicians there, because they “can do less damage there” (i know multiple cases from Germany).

So i have trouble calling it one, even though it formally is.

It somewhat works here (Switzerland) since the Volksentscheid is holy and pulling that stunt gets a lot of people really upset about not honoring that choice.

But yeah democracies need rules against repeated attempts, since this is an exploit violating the idea of a democracy. In Germany, this is already a problem, called Salamitaktik (Salami slicing tactic).

Yeah. But then i remembered some history facts and how lobbying and vulture capital works and decided it unlikely.

Because it was a race for simulating more deadly nukes till now. But that got silly, so they need something new to compare their pp.

Anyone who thinks this is new, please read this, this and this.

And there’s also this. It’s a topic since shortly after the standardization of the Open Document Format 2006. MS then feared to lose whole governments as customers, so they (pseudo)standardized their own format, with a whole bunch of traps (in the format) and abuses of market power.

Since the web works via a DOM (Document Object Model) and a document that needs to execute active content to display anything is not a document, a webpage that needs JS to load the document can safely be considered broken.