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  • Humanity will survive this but everyone will suffer the effects. Even something relatively minor like COVID had great effects to the global economy, but with these we are talking about:

    • Weather inestabilization, with greater storms and massive heat waves.

    • General crop failures in many places of the world.

    • Desertification in many areas.

    • Massive migration waves.

    • Very difficult and unstable economy.

    We are starting to see some of this, but 2050 onwards is going to be a very difficult time for all humanity except the most wealthy.














  • Yes and no. It’s an escalations issue. Even with administrator access, you are not supposed[note1] to be allowed to install drivers with invalid signature, which supposedly haven an even high chain of trust (although this really iffy unless you are using secureboot as well but that’s another discussion).

    That said, when the attacker already has admin privileges you are so far in the compromised chain that the kernel driver is an issue, but you are most likely completely fucked anyways.

    This just makes your vulnerability state to be the same as in linux, where your drivers arent required to be signed in the first place, for example.

    [note 1]: There’s a caveat, with admin acess you can disable driver signatures entirely, using bcdedit, this is called test signing and leaves a visible watermark at all times with “Test signing enabled”, therefore the user can already see that the computer is compromised. Its mostly useful for devs (or attacking people who dont give a fuck).