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Can't really blame them for that.
Also, you can do what you want on your computer and they can do what they want on their servers.
There is a good argument that those two are related. Energy is a weapon of war for russia, and it works best when there is a dependency on it. A lot of money flows towards increasing that dependency, including towards advocacy groups with irrational stance against nuclear.
Also everybody is mostly over nuclear threat I think. When a nuclear country keeps annexing land and threatens you with nukes if you object, you have two options -- keep giving up or call the bluff (or assassinate the leadership I guess).
Actions weren't there last time I checked (few years ago).
For this particular case obviously previous packages didn't show it clearly enough. And yes, if you give thousands of 3rd party devs (or anybody snatching their credentials) direct access to your build machines or production systems, you should absolutely expect some of them to be unstable in all kinds of ways.
Insider problem is hard enough to guard against when you know the people involved.
We should encourage old-style prank hacking.
It leaves vulnerabilities open until next release, but deals with direct attacks.
For arbitrage to be entirely fair, if a company can easily hire from 2 places, workers should be able to move between those places just as easily. So subunits of the same country if fair game, but countries must not be, unless both countries have effectively open borders with each other.
"I'm sorry, we don't think you are a cultural match for our company".