[shadowgovt]

This is the nugget of the issue. The code-signing process, in this case, was abused to verify something that, fundamentally, cannot give the guarantee "Doesn't crash your OS" because it is allowed to run arbitrary code in the form of novel commands in what is essentially a DSL. So if code-signing is supposed to be a guarantee from MS that "this code can't crash your system," it should never have been signed... But then MS would have been on hooks for blocking a competitor.

There is no guarantee the law is written soundly.