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The malicious mindset is right in the name. It redefines my computer to exist only in context of another thing. My hardware is now an """endpoint""" and not a standalone system.


I'm trying to see your point, but it doesn't really track; a re-definition based on modern context isn't malicious.

Threats are not simply viruses, and network detection / response is objectively different.

You also probably connect your "standalone system" to a network.


It's not something that you're going to install on personal machines. It's something that the CISO wants installed on company machines for compliance reasons. And before you claim that you don't want your activity monitored on the company laptop, the laptop belongs to the company. There's no expectation of privacy.


In a corporate setting (where this kind of software is often used), „your“ computer is not really yours and does in fact only exist in context of another thing (the corporation).




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