You might as well have just said "Kim Campbell". :-)

Didn't we already see a significant vulnerability related to this within the past 12 months?

Also, it's not just Windows. Just a couple months ago I updated the firmware on a bunch of Dell boxes using fwupdmgr (on AlmaLinux 9). It's very convenient, but I (mostly) wish it wasn't actually possible... but, since it is, might as well take advantage of it.

We are living in the Platinum Age of Scamming.

Are they caused by simpletons who are letting AI do their jobs without any oversight?

I'm curious as to why you'd assume that.

Well, be fair. Back doors don't come cheap!

Yup - as soon as I saw who was involved, my immediate thought was "this is great if your goal is owning a permanently backdoored laptop".

That bubble burst.

We can save some money by paying foreigners to do the work.

Because it's a bad look if the least-expensive version of your laptop costs $2200.

I'll need a small nuclear plant to power all of the cheap GPUs.

I think my 401k is using AI, it keeps telling me 418. I'm concerned about what is brewing in there.

Rule 99: "Trust is the biggest liability of all."

The United States is the world's largest producer of natural gas and of helium. Qatar and Russia are the other top helium producers.

In the near future, I fully expect a new Trump announcement about how we're getting a bunch of helium from Putin, and as a result we're giving Russia Most Favored Nation trading status. And maybe Zelensky's head on a platter.

Coward, it sounds like you have never lived. I mean really lived. Nothing beats the trifecta of a Firefox crash into a BSOD and disk corruption on reboot. Have you seen my grey hair? I earned it.