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You’re being sarcastic but even small fees immediately weed out a ton of cruft.

Well it at least is an obstacle. Broke hackers won’t get it or will have to work harder to get around it.

Even more lols when you are gigabyte and your private key leaks. Also when you are gigabyte and your signed driver is used to privilege escalate malware.

And you can still bypass it if you put your software in a .zip

And that’s why certificates can be revoked, that’s the whole point, trust. It only costs a few hundred a year per Microsoft’s documentation and approved vendors so it doesn’t seem that much of an ask. At the very least you can look up the developer yourself, harder to do if the package has no identity associated with it

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