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> Does everything need to be signed? Use a tool to much and you end up becoming it's slave.

In a trusted society full of honest people, no.

In an untrusted society with dishonest people, the amount of resources (money, time, cpu, memory) required to protect yourself from abusers will only ever keep growing.



No. For SW distribution, yeah sign the software in transit to my disk or whatnot. That's good so I know who I'm getting it from.

But requiring it for running the code, that's just anti-software-freedom behavior.




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