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I discovered where your confusion came from:

"I guess this would be useful to prevent malware being installed, but it's not going to be massively useful to remove already installed malware. Especially if that malware can interrupt the polling."

You mistakenly read that as if I wasn't talking about malware that exists today. No. There are two situations:

  1.) revocation cert issued before malware installed
  2.) malware installed before revocation cert issued
I was talking about situation 2 occurring in N years time. You can tell this by the way I wrote "Especially if that malware can interrupt the polling." Which of course, isn't a feature of any malware that exists today, because the polling method doesn't exist yet.



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