What Kitz said.
This is disgusting. Whom does this benefit. Stifles innovation perhaps, and its a tax making smaller outfits live in fear. It’s just a shakedown. I can’t possibly imagine where it could go practically in any case because no one has been harmed, not to mention there was no malice. It surely is an attempt at plain blackmail and an out-of-court settlement, and the courts should spot this and ctrl-alt-del it on day zero. The fact that it has taken this many decades for researchers to cotton on to the problems shows that it was a design mistake that was to some extent forgiveable given the security awareness of the times and what was known in the state of the art. I might well have got this wrong, and that is with the best will in the world. (BTW I’m not a hardware engineer.)
