nabanics

The name is Carmine Finelli, probably of Italian origin, like the rest of guys who signed the paper.

You mean more paranoid interpretation.

Microsoft controls the servers, they don't need a client backdoor to access messages.

As long as you don't use your internet access to commit illegal actions, they won't cut anything off.

Luckily nobody cares about dead licences.

kill sends a signal, that's all it does. It doesn't care about what the process did with it.