About 7 years ago it was the most affordable USB controller that identify them self as a HID device that I could find to brute force the EFI lock on a MacBook Pro https://orvtech.com/atacar-efi-pin-macbook-pro-en.html
It was really easy to setup and start pushing code to it
Agree is not a "Solution" but it does not has the impact that most people are imagining.
I am just curious, what would be the right way for companies to tackle this, how would they know who is the family of a regime official for example? Most people's comments seem to be aimed at Adobe instead of the complexity that is dealing with this executive order.
They probably ran the numbers and it was cheaper to loose the dozen of legit clients they have there than to put some engineer hours to figure which one of them are government entities.
I wonder if Microsoft will pull something like this... or even cisco
It is not the same traffic pattern, Uber sees a regular stream of request keeping their caches warm, Yes they might see 2X or 3X spikes every now and them but in proportion these are smaller than the spikes that the IRS will see today.
It was really easy to setup and start pushing code to it