marshmellowtest
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People can be prosecuted or otherwise harassed for sharing contents on a P2P system.
> It never looked like an anonymizing tool to me; did anybody advertise it as such?
You are confusing "anonymizing" with "leaking a lot of information to the whole world".
They constantly "forget" to tell people about the huge security impact.
IPFS and bittorrent don't do anything to protect the data you are uploading and your IP address.
Case in point: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/
Now every website you visit, any ad/tracker, any homecalling phone app can tell what movies and contents you watch and when you are at home. For years.
Bios can be replaced with coreboot.
Some buyers and some vendors actually care about security.
In many countries there are constitutional principles to prevent arbitrary pardon. If a law was unjust all prisoners are freed.
People would often "eat" meat only on Sundays by cooking a chunk in a soup. Then the elder in the family would eat the meat and everybody else would just taste it in the soup.