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For me the two big takeaways are the cop who wanted to unplug from Google. This is likely to be a fairly sizeable minority of the world who used to know how it all worked - and just cannot be bothered to learn the new rules.

I am not sure if that's a good or a bad thing - if grandpa is not online can be do video calls to the grandkids ?

The second is of course - I do not monitor these boards and of course the next attempt will not be public. Not sure how to react if a dozen baggies got delivered. Hand it over to the cops I guess.

It is the makings of an interesting real life DDoS attack on politicians for example

Hand it over to the cops, but not before speaking to a lawyer, would be my tactic.

This is likely to be a fairly sizeable minority of the world who used to know how it all worked - and just cannot be bothered to learn the new rules.

I am not sure if that's a good or a bad thing - if grandpa is not online can be do video calls to the grandkids ?

People have been reacting this way since computers were first sold to the public: They bitched and moaned until the last possible moment, but they are all using word processors and have iphones now. There will be no exodus.

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