My coworker was listening to Fox "news" radio... The teacher they were interviewing said that Palestinian people don't exist; they're Jordanian but Jordan (and every other Middle Eastern country) doesn't want them... Then he went on to say he's not racist because he had a lot of Palestinian students and they were wonderful people!
I heard Brother was good, then I spent way too long formatting different USB sticks in different cluster sizes and formats, and never got ours to work with any of them. Don't buy Brother if you want that feature, either.
grub's always been a hack. The first stage in 512 byte boot sector chainloads the second stage in the space between boot sector and the first sectors of first partition. Second stage chainloads the kernel. (This is my primitive gist.)
grub was never made for security, it just exists in a place where one would think security would be priority... but again, physical access = pwned, etc.
Not quite the same, but funny: I recently unlocked an HDD from a car head unit to prove to a friend that it was only storing music ripped from its CD drive (and the associated minimal CD title database)... Toshiba master HDD password is 32 spaces. 😅
Better replace your keyboard everytime you leave it unattended, someone could put a keylogger in it. Don't forget to check for hidden pinhole cameras around that capture you inputting your passwords. Etc, etc. Those even work against an encrypted drive...
Even if you understand the commands, you need to trust the website because a malicious site can use JavaScript to copy something completely different into your clipboard, with a newline character at the end to automatically execute when pasted. (Is the newline exploit fixed in all shells? It used to fail in zsh but work in many others...)
One can also paste into a text editor to verify before pasting into terminal, but what noob is going to know or bother to?
Only reasons I can think of are time and money. We sadly lost DivestOS and their projects... How about software patents, which of course are bullshit; but even illegitimate threats can ruin small businesses and lone programmers who don't have the time and money to defend themselves.
Should have gone for the heart; I don't think further damaging the brain would have much effect.