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That wasn't just the USA, and it turned into a boondoggle which embarrassed the perpetrators and gave the appearance that targeted cyberattacks were high-cost/low-impact.

I suppose that it is a diplomat's job to appear stupid until they have stolen your shoes, but I'm not sure anybody can act that well. My confidence in the West's ability to perpetuate an offensive cyber war is pretty low. Our main advantage is the quantity of servers/data that reside in/flow through our borders, but that's not too hard to dodge. Cryptocurrencies also erase the hammer of losing access to US financing.

>Apple's in very deep shit in this lawsuit and losing this will open a can of worms.

For example, is it okay to bundle a default web browser with an OS and forbid any other browsers from being installed? All iOS browsers are required to use Safari's WebKit under the hood, despite the appearance of choice in the app store. This cripples the features and performance of 3rd-party browsers like Firefox.

And unlike this spat with Epic, there might be some strong precedence on that question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

FYI, Firefox on Android supports desktop extensions, including uBlock and NoScript.

They're pretty painless to use, too; there's an 'Add-ons' option in the main ⋮ menu with an entry for each extension. Tapping an extension's entry opens the usual extension dialogue in a full-screen view, and tapping 'back' in that view has the same effect as closing the extension dialogue on a desktop browser.

So you can use NoScript to enable a script and reload the page in...5 taps. It could be worse.