And there will always be strong young men willing to commit more immediately tangible atrocities and brutalize the weak, for money or national defense.
I had an incident at a client recently where their employees' (macOS) machines would have issues connecting to services on Localhost. The client's request would arrive to the server just fine, but the client would immediately get a connection reset ("empty reply from server" in curl) without getting the response from the server. Eventually we tracked it down to a BitDefender update.