Walker suggested that American companies could collaborate with European firms to implement measures ensuring data protection. Local management or servers located in Europe to store information are among the options.
As long as they’re a US company US law can force them to hand over data. No matter where the servers are located.
It was not a sudden realisation, no
Trust in US sources and US services must be in free fall.
Ok, now supercharge this trend in 2026.
There is also the possibility of running other OS in a virtual machine. Like https://www.virtualbox.org/
If you do that you don’t leave Linux, but spin up an environment where you can have a full installation of i.e. Windows running. Your Windows environment is not aware of Linux, which it is hosted on, and should behave like a normal Windows machine.
I may sound complicated, but is pretty easy to use when you get going. Try watching a few videos on the subject if you are interested.
At least Intel, and probably more, are already paying protection? I suppose it’s easier to collect protection than to organise a scam operation.
If that is true, then why demand obscene payment packages?
Exactly. EA do it because enough people allow them to do it.