I thought the same thing. I can only imagine police departments are being sold an elaborate tall tale of how this will save money and the accuracy is unbelievably high.

Right on. Gotcha.

Hahaha. Yea. Been there too.

Fair point. Malware can tunnel through existing comms, thus firewalling the exe would do little to protect you.

That’s why I recommended a multilayered defense and practicing good opsec.

An exe that installs a service, modifies unrelated executables, and sends comms through an unrelated application would be a catastrophic failure in any good defense.

If your system is this wide open then you’ll be likely to have all sorts of problems from non pirated software. Such as freeware that installs adware.

I have tried to find these in the wild to no avail.

Many do provide some form of checksum.

I hear ya. Voting is supposed to help self moderate, but it is just abused.

I think we need to get rid of the voting system altogether. There’s a much better system based on interactions and comment sentiment measurement that in trials on reddit provide better results of floating values posts to the top.

It’s a fire hose of free speech. Block and filter what you don’t want to see. For now.

Censorship is something you can control on a personal level. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean that the world should not be exposed to it.

I personally hide 99% of political stuff on Xtwitter. Makes for a cool open discussion on tech and my other hobbies.