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by detaro 2919 days ago
Did it scare you when your operating system started to support it, on the basis that it would "in all likelyhood" be fine?

For a system aiming at security, it's a completely valid choice to disable things that start to look questionable, even if it's not conclusively proven yet. Just like potential software vulnerabilities are patched even if nobody has demonstrated that they actually are exploitable yet.