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Is the world safer?

Yes. The revelations, and public reactions to them (the real public reaction as expressed in the marketplace, not whatever jaw-flapping occurs in response to some inane telemarkepollster call) have led to security improvements. The fact that it has also led to the entertaining spectacle of useless bureaucrats running around pissing and moaning and whining and generally making fools of themselves in public is just a bonus.

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I know the people involved. Been signed up myself since 1985.

thanks but no thanks
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the-last-time-our-oceans-got-this-acidic-it-drove-earths-greatest-extinction

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All are suspect.

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/rea...

(An AC posted this yesterday; it's still rated zero. Hopefully my Karma bonus will make it more visible.)

You're right to distrust the survey. Here's an article that discusses the methodology:

It turns out the study was conducted by a "creative market research" group called OnePoll. "Generate content and news angles with a OnePoll PR survey, and secure exposure for your brand," reads the company's blurb. "Our PR survey team can help draft questions, find news angles, design infographics, write and distribute your story.".

Later on it talks about how OnePoll's surveys work - basically they're online surveys that pay a few cents/pence for participation. So not exactly a peer reviewed scientific study.

That's only partially true. Vice has tested out some of the recipes. They work to varying degrees of success.
http://www.vice.com/video/anar...

However, what is generally called "The Anarchist Cookbook" that is circulated on the Internet as text files is not the same as the real "Anarchist Cookbook" (which is still available on Amazon).

That's exactly what's happening in Brazil right now. US hacked Petrobras and disclosured only information related to the current political party in power, which has a non-US-aligned view in external affairs AND is not bending to international Multinational Corporations to weaken the work related laws. US also manipulated other local anarchist groups in protesting against government. And we are a friendly, democratic nation... like Germany! Even germany prime minister knew what was happening in Brazil in the world CUP and let a clue scape when she visited my country, Merkel said she would talk to Dilma "to understand the protests in Brazil". Both knew what was happening.. It was the US acting in both countries, Merkels phone was hacked by the US. Hell, US courts even disclosured what US intelligence agencies were doing to Brazil: http://motherboard.vice.com/re... US is waging cyber war in FRIENDLY nation. They call the hacking of GEMATO patriotism, and hacking of sony "cyber terrorism" I do not support communism, socialism or the current pary, but if I were a Brazillian authority I would issue an arrest order for US officiais in Brazil right now. My country is turning into a mess because of US actions. US throwed Brazillian goverment in a coup-de-etat supported by them 30 years ago and now they are doing it again! We are not Panama, we are a 200million nation, the 7th economy of the world. Hey forcing us to the same path they forced Venezuela in. Is there sanity in US government? I work for an american company. I love america and most people is nice and polite. But I fucking HATE the US goverment and OBAMA didnt help, despite my best hopes. Please american people, save us from your goverment, regain the power from the corporations.

I said the Bush administration is "almost" wholly responsible. They deserve the preponderance of blame. They misrepresented the evidence on alleged WMDs and links to Al Qaeda.

https://news.vice.com/article/...

They executed a sustained propaganda campaign for the purpose of manipulating the country to go to war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...

". Hobby landscape photographers (who happen to be hanging their camera from a hexacopter) are not on the FAA shitlist."

  The guy that received the cease-and-desist from the FAA for posting his drone videos on youtube would probably disagree. Sure he receives income from views but it's not the primary motivation for flying.

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I mean it's so bad, drug gangs have to kidnap people to get IT support! This program is just a market response to that huge demand

UN says US violating international law, calls for closure of Guantanamo
US Attack On Syria Violates International Law
US drone strikes violate international law, harm civilians: Amnesty and HRW (VIDEO)
NATO Violates International Law
US: Prolonged Indefinite Detention Violates International Law
UN says US drone war in Pakistan violates international law
The Military Admitted Force-Feeding Gitmo Detainees Violates International Law and Medical Ethics
US violates int’l laws; moves USS Enterprise into Pakistani water near Balochistan
International community concerned America violating international law by striking Syria
Americans Abandon International Law

Whether they realize it or not, Americans are increasingly embracing policies that undermine the international rule of law, with self-identified liberals, in particular, seemingly reversing their positions on matters such as the Guantanamo prison camp, extrajudicial assassinations and arbitrary detention.

A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, for example, found that 70 percent of the American public approves of the U.S. government’s decision to indefinitely keep the Guantanamo prison open, despite widespread international condemnation of this policy.

The problem with Godwin's Law is that nazism is on the rise and people are afraid to point it out because of Godwin's Law.

http://www.vice.com/read/white...

(fun fact: the nazis' internet clubhouse is 8chan, because birds of a feather...)

Yes, there's a reason. Same reason as always: partisan bickering.

All this furor over Epic Scale bitcoin miner, and none over other crud like Wajam that uTorrent installs?

Have a look at the last image in this article. "...may change your local proxy settings...collect...URLs of the pages you visit...content of encrypted webpages...Wajam may protect itself from other software that tries to wrongfully interfere with it."

Yikes. Lenovo got spanked pretty hard for packaging advertising malware that MITMs your encrypted sessions, but at least theirs doesn't officially threaten a counterstrike against your antivirus too.
 

IT is 8 pages of regulations, 300+ of justification:

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/f...

Also it is the GOP holding up its release:

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http://www.wired.com/2015/03/f...

But last week, three FCC Commissioners voted to saddle the internet with a new set of constraints so complex, vague and problematic that it took over 300 pages of explanation to justify eight pages of rules. While we haven’t seen the full text yet, we do know a lot about what’s inside.

Also it is apparently the GOP FCC members holding this up:

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You have no idea what you're talking about. Pollution and mining accidents from coal kill far more people than nuclear accidents do.

Go read up on Giordano Bruno ...please...
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The man was not killed because of scientific theories. He was killed because he said Jesus wasn't the Son of God. That Satan would be forgiven for his sins. That Mary wasn't a virgin, etc etc etc.

So, you're behind the Max Headroom Incident.

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We're not even over the NSA hard drive hacks and now this?

Next you're gonna tell me Americans shove food up people's ass for freedom. Oh wait they do.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of worldâ(TM)s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

"hard drive" isn't even mentioned in the summary. You idiots got misdirected.

The focus should be on the fact that all hard drives from major brands can be fucked with by the NSA and there are no solutions, the focus shouldn't be on some fucking hacking group:

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of worldâ(TM)s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

Why don't you stupid American fucks sue the NSA and all the American corporations exposed by Snowden.

You Americans idiots bitch and moan about little adware from others while ignoring the biggest exploits developed by your own people.

Fuck off.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

The NSA bugs all hard drives, there are your END USERS.

Slashdot kept burying the story, while minor Chinese related news gets double exposure.

Obvious NSA American dumb down operation at work.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

It's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call slashdot a geek site? "News for nerds, stuff that matters" my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

It's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call slashdot a geek site? "News for nerds, stuff that matters" my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

It's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call slashdot a geek site? "News for nerds, stuff that matters" my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

Come on slashdot, stop deleting the NSA hard drive backdoor news submissions, it's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call this a geek site? Stuff that matters my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

Can you provide links to the stories of these "skeptic scientists"

Canada does not now support science, or at least only a conservative politically correct version of it

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read...

http://hour.ca/2006/04/20/catc...

http://ottawariverkeeper.ca/ne...

http://scienceblogs.com/confes...

http://www.thestar.com/opinion...

And in a happy flashback to the KGB monitoring it's people The Government actually sent people to MONITOR Canadian Scientists at an international polar conference!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technol...

http://ottawariverkeeper.ca/ne...

That is just about as creepy as it gets. A gulag for the evil scientists is next?

Any questions comrade?

Just wait until we get the artificial womb (aka ectogenesis), a controversy I've been expecting since reading about such things in futurist-lit as a teen. I imagine just the controversy over gays being able to naturally have their own kids would just be the start of it, but the upside of any kids born from such a womb always having proper nutrition and not being dependent on bad habits of the mom (like booze, so no fetal alcohol syndrome) seems a good thing. I see religious zealots never letting this become a reality, though.

According to a referenced article on the link above, he got a lot of help from a Comp Sci friend, in setting up the site - but the guy doing it wasn't fully involved - just giving bits of code and advice. So it's conceivable he knew enough and had enough help to get the site running - but didn't think through all the elements of what he was doing, properly.

It seems he told his GF, who later broke up with him and told her friends... one of whom posted on his Facebook page: "I’m sure the authorities would be interested in your drug-running site". http://motherboard.vice.com/re...

Not only the hottest year ever, but the hottest hottest year ever:
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Finally! Just what America needs - more and better guns!

You got it, my good man. We do need more and better of just about anything, that's legal and desired by consumers: TVs, refrigerators, toothbrushes, vibrators, cars, and, yes, weapons.

Now, where were you going with that maxim of yours?

The part about the depiction of Kim Jong-un being perceived as dangerous is very believable. The Vice Guide to North Korea rather powerfully demonstrates the absurd levels of state propoganda in North Korea. The government portrays their dear leaders as a sort of god-man who is regarded as the greatest of all leaders by every nation on earth.

A film that mocks the leader as a buffoon and crybaby would indeed be a very dangerous thing inside that country.

Antonio Martin was armed and likely robbing a gas station.

For that matter, can we stop equating Eric Garner, who was murdered, with Michael Brown, who was not?

And can we start talking about Victor White III, who was assassinated in the back of a police car?

Which anonymous "made a statement"?

The Brooklyn anons or the Westchester anons? Did it come straight from the president of Anonymous or maybe the board of directors? Or is it maybe THESE anons?: http://motherboard.vice.com/re...

Now you're learning of the inherent problem with anonymous, leaderless groups, cuck.

Here is an article from Vice of all places about this research, from June http://motherboard.vice.com/re...

Research paper here: http://cs.nyu.edu/~zaremba/doc...

Also, a funny video demonstrating the rudimental nature of nintendo ds brain training pattern recognition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Uh, what? We're talking about on-device encryption here. That is very much the issue where YOU encrypt things. The FBI are complaining that Apple and Google have made it too easy to do full encryption (and Google has now made it on by default in Android 5.0), and when people make use of it, they cannot decrypt it even with a warrant.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/fb...
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https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

Only in America can one legally carry a assault rifle but get arrested for using a camera. What a sick place to be.

Not if you're black, you can't. You can't even carry a BB gun while black. You get murdered by cops in a Walmart.

You must have a hell of an arm, because the FAA is only responsible for airspace above 700 feet AGL

No, this is wrong. The FAA has jurisdiction over any untethered flying object. Some of their regulations for manned aircraft specify the 700 feet threshold, but that is not a jurisdictional boundary.

Heh... since it's commercialized that would mean the military has had it for some time now.
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A bit late to the party, bud? The fact of paid shills has become evident from many angles. GHCQ (and the NSA by extension) have already been shown to employ paid trolls. https://firstlook.org/theinter... (Here's where you call Greenwald a libertarian or bitch about Omidyar Pierre.)
Even telecoms employ pay trolls. http://www.vice.com/read/troll...
Oil companies? You bet. http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

So of course the government does as well--are you daft? In another message I'm arguing against a guy named Trollston, for fuck's sake.

Come back to me when they actually find something that uses a sixth nucleotide.

Here you go.
http://motherboard.vice.com/re...

Well, it's more like "created" than "discovered", but it is does have 6 base pairs in its DNA (and replicates them).

Yes, let's use a single letter of leader of rebels who know they're outnumbered, outgunned and will be purged to anyone willing to listen to implicate that they are the terrorists. Ignore the rest as irrelevant because, well, it doesn't fit the whole "oo, evil muslim terrorists" narrative.

Also many left over? Really? Because Human Rights Watch disagrees with you there. Pretty much the only reason why they weren't completely cleansed was because French actually got their shit together and started putting themselves in harm's way. For all their craziness, Christian mobs understood that it was best not to attack their former colonial masters. Especially with them having those mining interests in the region.

Chadian peacekeepers weren't so lucky.

Here's a direct quote from UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antoinio Gutierres talking to UN Security Council earlier this year when conflict was on:
"Since early December we have effectively witnessed a cleansing of the majority of the Muslim population in western CAR, tens of thousands of them have left the country, the second refugee outflow of the current crisis, and most of those remaining are under permanent threat."

That was before the worst hit. Bangui, the capital city had some 145.000 muslims. Today, it has effectively none. Here's France24, French English language state news site on the topic:
http://www.france24.com/en/201...

You're going to have a really hard time explaining how this wasn't a purge in true Stalinist fashion. Unless of course you're psychotic enough to claim that these aren't people, since they are muslims.

More recommended watching: http://www.vice.com/video/the-...

More than 95% of stuff in orbit now is junk and huge resources at NASA and DoD are used just to track it More than 500,000 pieces of debris, or “space junk,” are tracked as they orbit the Earth. They all travel at speeds up to 17,500 mph, fast enough for a relatively small piece of orbital debris to damage a satellite or a spacecraft. http://motherboard.vice.com/re... http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pa...

it will be much harder to remove later. By the time we are building moon telescopes and research bases, we will be using half the payload for tools to sweep the junk up http://science.nasa.gov/scienc...

...The only reason for needing to know if the police are nearby is if one is a criminal and/or thinking of doing something criminal.

(Expecting downvotes from the "all police are pigs" idiots)

I have mod points right now, but rather than downmod you I'll jump into the discussion. While I wouldn't say that all police are pigs, anybody who maintains that the average law abiding citizen has nothing to fear from the police either has his head in the sand, or is trolling. If your qualifier had read "if one might be viewed as a criminal and/or thinking of doing something that the police claim is suspicious in order to further their own ends", I'd agree with you. But then, there wouldn't have been much of a reason for you to post, would there?

Of course, you may actually believe that Driving While Black, clenching your butt, wearing a backpack with graffiti on it, or carrying cash, are crimes simply because they seem suspicious to fucked-up and/or corrupt police. If that's the case, then shame on you.

Yep, this would be right out of their play book, where step 1 would be to discredit "security applications" and create distrust of encryption - to change the public opinion of it.

The director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, said on Thursday that the “post-Snowden pendulum” that has driven Apple and Google to offer fully encrypted cellphones had “gone too far.” He hinted that as a result, the administration might seek regulations and laws forcing companies to create a way for the government to unlock the photos, emails and contacts stored on the phones.


Because if you create a back door for the .gov, only the .gov will be able to use it and will never abuse it. pfffft. too bad we don't have some type of golden key instead of a back door...

1. Yes, he did. It was just a "preview" of the game and not a "review" of the game so you win on semantics, I guess. Congrats.

By "preview" you mean he once mentioned the game exists, right?:

Except, the Kotaku writer in question never actually wrote said favorable review about Quinn's game.

A pertinent comment from a user on the gaming forum Escapist:

Literally the only thing relevant in any of that is that she had sex with the reviewer, and that's only relevant if she did so before the review came out. And, even then, I can't even find his supposed review of the game. I've found him pointing out the game existed in a news article, but nothing close to an actual review. So, unless someone can link me his actual review of the game (where I expect to see corruption levels of praise), what we have here is a bunch of people pretending that games media not reporting on a woman's adultery is evidence of some feminist conspiracy.

It's. Not. About. Journalism.

3.1. It wasn't GamerGate sending death threats. It was troll website Something Awful. We know because they used the exact same script against a GamerGater! After getting caught they deleted the thread to hide the evidence.

I don't even have an answer for that. There are so many things wrong with that explanation I don't know where to begin. BTW my comment missed out the bit between our developer friend making jokes, and her fleeing her own home. Should I write more detail there? Or would that be vaguely embarrassing and suggest that it's somewhat unlikely that a humor website was seriously involved in any way?

Oh yes, they do claim that. Jimmy Wales asserts that Wikipedia is "about as accurate as traditional encyclopedias and improving all the time." Really? Really? Really? Really? Really?