Don't forget, nuclear energy is extremely safe and we should build more of it. What happened at Fukushima literally can't happen due to how safe this technology is.
> It's also OSS and it is much easier to surface security bugs for Linux than for Windows.
Shouldn't then the number of bugs decrease much faster, since they are easier to find? Unless they are introduced at even a greater rate than the ones in Windows.
Read the emails carefully, and remember they were written by lawyers. It didn't seem to reach the level of criminal blackmail to me. Experts quoted in the article agree.
If they do however publish the picture everyone talks about, I'm pretty sure they will be destroyed just like Gawker was in the Hulk Hogan case.
To use your own argument, "child porn being illegal didn't work for stopping child porn, did it"?
The second huge fallacy (you are also making it) is that the government wants to ban crypto, but is afraid of saying it and comes up with all kinds of contrived tactics.