You also will need _some_ sort of encoding locally before uploading, even if it's minimal, which could lead to issues when encoded again (although there are codecs available to minimize this).

That can be difficult when you work for a company that has it's fingers in almost everything.

From the 2nd paragraph of the article.

But if it's possible for someone to muck with the file contents and lie about the number of fields which would cause a bounds error, that's exactly what bounds checking is supposed to avoid. So either bounds checks will be removed, or they're necessary.

Will they pursue? Do they have enough info to purse? Who knows, but they can if they want to.

Cable management can also be annoying sometimes when moving around.

Sorry, what? The user they're replying to said American, and also referenced a case in court with a Marshal which IIRC don't exist in Canada. They were clearly referring to the US. Which 99% of users who aren't needlessly obtuse would understand with the word American which in English typically refers to someone from the US and not North/South/Central America.

Obviously the article is talking about Canada, but many people in this comment section don't appear to have noticed that and think it happened in the US.

https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-marshall-islands/

There's an argument that flagged vessels might not qualify here in some circumstances, but RMI isn't just some random country.

Is there a reason you think insurance wouldn’t pay out because you used a non-listed device? This is something I frequently see people asserting without any basis in reality, and I’m curious where it comes from. People do stupid things that insurance covers all the time. I do agree that you should only use listed devices whenever possible.