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Re:FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones by Forcing Telecoms to Ge... by deadbabe on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @04:00PM (#48466842)
More than that, a ban on all general purpose computing.

You can only use specific applications downloaded from walled gardens. You cannot write and execute arbitrary code.

If you are an engineer, all code must be generated via LLM and it passes through some verification through a centralized security and compliance authority on the way to you. You must be fully licensed.

This will be, the end of malware.

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Re:FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones by Forcing Telecoms to Ge... by hnav on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @05:13PM (#48467845)
There are zero days in every piece of software, but malware is already mostly a state-actor-only thing.
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Re:FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones by Forcing Telecoms to Ge... by simulator5g on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @11:36PM (#48471108)
This is a hilarious take
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Re:FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones by Forcing Telecoms to Ge... by Tangurena2 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @08:56AM (#48475607)
The latest Miasma/Shai-Hulud worm will not run if your development system has KOI8-R (Russian) as the primary language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOI8-R

> Kill switch, as always with APT28 malware, is setting the host language to ru_RU.KOI8-R (LANG environment variable). That disables the spread mechanism.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460507

Note: KOI8-U is Ukrainian and would still trigger the worm/trojan/malware.

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Re:FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones by Forcing Telecoms to Ge... by simulator5g on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @10:36AM (#48476941)
So? If I were a US based malware dev that’s what I’d do to avoid detection…
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Re:FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones by Forcing Telecoms to Ge... by Tangurena2 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @08:48AM (#48475516)
As kooky as I thought he was, Stallman seems to be more prophetic each year. His essay The Right to Read seems to be a vision of how knowledge gets locked down. Every American college/university student has been trapped into renting textbooks. Elsevier and Pearson seem to have used that essay as a roadmap.

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/st...

I think he's wrong that DRM violates the 4th Amendment, I contend that it is - first and foremost - a violation of the 3rd Amendment.

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