In the gaming world, commercial cheat providers openly sell UEFI-level anti-cheat bypasses for up to €40 a month, taking advantage of Microsoft-signed components to evade detection.

The same techniques could be weaponized by nation-state or APT groups for espionage or sabotage, and recent cases, such as HybridPetya, suggest that ransomware operators are also adopting pre-OS infection methods.

This ability to persist below the operating system while maintaining the facade of a “secure” boot process marks a dangerous escalation in attacker sophistication.

The idea is called “a market for lemons.” [...] The sellers know which cars are which, but you, as a buyer, can’t tell the difference. That information asymmetry affects the average price in the market and eventually impacts the overall market dynamics. [...] I think we’re in the lemon stage of the internet.

Online dating. A lemon market where participants have no familiarity with one another participate in strategic self-presentation. High-quality partners (emotionally available, looking for genuine connection) can’t effectively distinguish themselves from those just seeking validation and eventually leave.

Search results. A lemon market where platforms profit from sponsored placement, misaligning incentives with user needs. The first page is a minefield: sponsored listings posing as organic results, SEO content farms, affiliate aggregators. You add “reddit” to work around this, but even that has less success these days.

Social media. Your feed is now professional content creators, low-effort podcast video clips, algorithmic filler reaction videos, stand-up chaff, and animals. Good ideas don’t happen frequently enough to satisfy the pace of the algorithm, so many have pivoted to newsletters or stopped posting.

The safest, smartest path is also the most mundane: keep the main thing the main thing. Outcomes matter, but output literally comes first. Outputs are the business to everyone outside it—what customers see, buy, and use. You can’t stay safe in abstractions forever.

Microsoft confirms major issues affecting Windows Recovery (WinRE) in a mandatory security update for Windows 11 24H2 / 25H2.
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︀︀After October 2025 Update, you cannot use mouse and keyboard in WinRE. This means it's no longer possible to select options or navigate between different settings in WinRE.
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︀︀WinRE is rendered useless due to this glitch.

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