Re: So....
How's that for Christmas goodwill?
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FWIW in UK law, anyone who handled the copy can be sued: the writer, the news editor, the sub-editor and the editor as well as the management. Usually, plaintiffs go after the money (the publisher) or the publisher is contractually obliged to defend its employees.
I've seen people name hacks, editors and publishers in defamation writs in order to scare the heck out of them.
C.
Once you're charged and appear in court, your name, age, address, occupation (if given) and allegations are a matter of public record - pop along to your nearest magistrates' court if you like and see it in action. And all the named suspects are over 18.
A good reason for publishing addresses is to avoid any cases of mistaken identity. Publishing something like 'John Smith, 18, of London' could link any number of people to an alleged crime - and cause all sorts of headaches for our lawyers.
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The only benefit is to stop malware infecting your boot-up. As soon as the boot executables are nobbled, their signatures will change and the UEFI firmware will reject them. If the machine will only start securely signed bootloaders, it's therefore game over for the trojan trying to gain control of your PC during initialisation.
Unfortunately, there's no way (as it stands) to tell the difference between an unsigned malware-infected bootloader and an unsigned bootloader for Linux.