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It was resolved? In the 'Timeline: The Speed Run' section they list:

"Day 1, same day: RBI fixes everything faster than you can say "code red""

From what is currently known it seems plausible that Marcus Hutchins should at least be under investigation. Some of the things he has done in the past were murky. Stopping a large ransomware attack (by accident) does not change that fact.

I have not seen remarks in the security community that people were afraid of being arrested out of the blue like Marcus Hutchins.

Not to mention that he retired three years ago.

The point of the letter is that there is something as being polite.

Intel telling him about it at some point would have been polite.

This is earnest in that he would have liked someone from Intel to tell them.

It is completely earnest in the sense that he is not expecting any money from it. Likewise he has never expected anything from Linus Torvald when MINIX was used as the primary source of inspiration for the Linux kernel when he started out with it. Although they did have some pretty serious discussions about it, but nothing more than that.

It should be noted that Minix is code that was developed by university researchers. Researchers who are payed for by (primarily) European and Dutch tax euros.

Also note that many of that time, energy and money to modify GPL code is not just programming time, but also a lot of legal advice time. With BSD-like license it should be immediately clear what you can do with the code (i.e. almost everything).

I'm guessing they are also going after the "fitness club" like profit idea. That is, get a subscription, use it frantically in the beginning. Then slowly you go less and less, but still keep the subscription because you never know when you might want to be healthy again. Or cancelling it is too much of a hassle for just $10/month.

The headline is misleading. They are not planning to fingerprint all children. They are lowering the age at which refugee children are being fingerprinted (from 14 to 6). This is part of the EU process of making sure that refugees are handled properly.

this raises an interesting question: does one side have an advantage with an incorrectly oriented board? Googling it doesn't really seem to give an answer.

Most results that I found note that it probably does not affect the game that much. If you're planning to write down moves it may become confusing when someone with a correctly set up board tries to replay it.

The naming of "private key" versus "secring.pgp" is very valid criticism.

Also the fact that it crashes on first use, and that it is all not very user-friendly are all valid criticisms (still!).

PS. please don't down vote because you disagree.