They're right that it's illegal but definitely wrong about it not happening.

The damage to privacy from this is likely much less then the average person realizes.

(an American living in Canada's perspective)

So the worn out packs almost all have bad cells as well.

Its expensive to repair them because of how much dangerous manual labor is involved.

That's the only difference.

You've almost certainly never had a system that supported any hardware accelerated crypto that also required a kernel module.

It's much easier to expose as cpu extensions.

So grain of salt.

(For the pedantic, it's not exactly centralized nor federated since each airline treats their view of the world as absolutely correct)

Most remotes seem to be RF not ir these days.

One in 8000 is incredibly good for an actual conflict.

likely they switched because of the time, but if your model could help reduce the time I bet they wouldn't have switched

That way they all have the same delay properties.

Those have just resulted in ya know... almost nothing.