As of today, all plain HTML searches fail. Text mode browsers like `w3m`, `links`, and `lynx` now show a page that says, "Update your browser". Command line tools like `curl` and `wget` redirect to a page which say, "Turn on JavaScript to keep searching". Hopefully this is just a temporary glitch or security measure as Google hasn't announced anything yet.
Tough, but not insurmountable. Especially compared to the work of reimplementing GPG and actually having it be trustworthy. (They mention it is harder than they thought, but they are continuing on. That says to me they have not yet thought hard enough about it!)
Here's an idea: If you look at the metal ring on the Somu, you'll see it is actually two separate pieces with a small gap between them. In hardware, they are two touch buttons, but the software treats them as identical.
Maybe they could manufacture the Somu with the gap between them soldered closed. If someone wants to put it in "dev mode", they have to first cut the solder bridge apart.
I think that would satisfy the GPL3: user has ultimate control, but also meet the security concern that the user might not know the implications of what they're doing.
Debian has never had the goal of being the latest shiny thing on the block. And that's why people people keep coming back to it. Sure, over the years I've dabbled with RedHat, Ubuntu, Mint, and so on, but then repeatedly I rediscover, that, oh yeah, security and stability actually matter.
Debian Stable cuts the right balance for me by incorporating the latest security patches but not the latest features/bugs. This is a heck of a lot more work for the Debian maintainers than simply rubber stamping whatever the upstream software developers release, but it's proven worth it.
My only disappointment in Debian here is that they didn't catch this time bomb and disarm it preemptively.
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