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by supriyo-biswas 325 days ago
I’ve often talked about in private settings about how running open source OSes and DRM-free setups would likely become illegal in the future. With every passing day this vision seems closer to reality.
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The slowly boiled death of general-purpose computing
A slow-boiled GNU with a hardened kernel, and a side of salted hashes please
"you must be a terrorist or a child abuser if you're so afraid of security... Unhackable phone? What are you hiding? "

Add several big TV shows, op-eds in national press and it'll start shifting even without the laws.

My money is on the UK leading the charge.