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Microsoft and the Protection Racket: Rothbard Was Right - Schiff Gold

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Rothbard argued the state manufactures crises to expand its reach, then sells protection from the chaos it created. Microsoft now runs the same play: its own security failures create the vulnerability surface, then it charges enterprises for the tools to patch them. When a single vendor controls both the OS and the protection stack, every breach becomes a revenue event.

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