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by trhway 1635 days ago
That is another attack on general computing. Until now an "encryption" has been required to limit your legal ability to handle information legally residing on your computer. Now even the "encryption" isn't needed, just a post-factum statement from the information sender that you used unapproved (according to post-factum given definition of approved) viewer for that information. One can see how MS may for example decide that using an old version of Word or accessing MS site by Firefox instead of Bing or from a Linux computer may be qualified as such a hacking.