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   From: vallor@vallor.earth   
      
   At Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:22:55 -0500, Tom Elam    
   wrote:   
      
   > On 2/15/26 3:46 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > > You sound like one of those people from the old Soviet Union,   
   > > totally unaccustomed to free-market competition, seeing a   
   > > Western-style supermarket for the first time and being totally   
   > > baffled by the need for so much choice. “Wouldn’t it be more   
   > > efficient to just have one of each product?” you say. And we all   
   > > know the answer to that, don’t we?   
   >   
   > I'm a person who long ago downloaded a program from a non-oem site   
   > and had a Dell desktop running a fully patched XP infected with   
   > malware that nobody I talked to could fully removed. How do you know   
   > your devices are not being infected with subtle but nefarious   
   > malware?   
      
   "Just because your paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you."   
      
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