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by Rizz 1111 days ago
I suspect this is also to provide a legal framework to automatically remove malware from victim's computers, as has been done before by Dutch authorities without any law permitting such actions, and removing malware is obviously good for society.
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All adblock extensions, torrent software and end-to-end-encryption systems will now be classified as 'malware'.
> automatically remove malware from victim's computers,

Like uninstall Windows without permission?

And of course it can also be used for gaining entry to hackers systems by infiltrating c&c servers on third party hardware, which also had been done before by Dutch authorities without any existing legal framework to allow this.