Your famous for not having earned your degree, yet you persevered and your reputation for your work goes far outside your field. How hard was it to be taken seriously in your field without the required degree? I ask as someone who also works in a University at a senior level without a degree.
So Mega, or anyone else who gains control of the Mega server sending the crypto algorithms, can turn off that encryption or steal the user's private key, which would allow decryption of all past and future uploads."
Correct. Fact #1: Our FAQ states exactly that and warns people that do not trust us to refrain from logging into the site (but they could, in theory, still safely use MEGA through client apps from vendors they trust). Fact #2: Any software maker offering online application updates is able to plant Trojan code into specific targets' computers, with much more far-reaching consequences.
If they can turn off the encryption than they have lost plausible deniability. This is bad for their survival if they want to be able to claim that they don't know what they have on their servers (a brilliant move). This puts everyone's data at stake as they can be sued or re-seized back into oblivion as before.
This may have been done to allow them to de-dupe data on their servers to save space as a practical logistical issue. This issue needs to be addressed above and beyond any other issues. Until Mega resolves this issue with a clear and unwavering answer that they/cannot/ see their data it is probably best not to upload anything confidential just yet.
The servers are now a single point of failure and the target of attack, this is a really big deal. Please fix this Kim, I want to see your service succeed.
That is one thing I haven't got a clue on. Understand the industry, sure, understanding how things like that work? Beat's me.
I have seen amazing amounts of control done with minority stakes over the years. It's always baffled just how much control you can have with a minority stake, and I have never understood why and how that works.
Is it really this simple? I have dealt with one form of regulation (including some Euro regs) for many years now and I have never encountered something that simple. I don't know enough about how they are trying to do things, but having been there - done that with other regulations over the years I've learned bureaucracy is never simple.
I'm not opposed to the concenpt of the 'right to forget', it's the logistical details that make me go, 'wait a moment'. If you have any good primers on the actual in's and out's and not on the propaganda I'd be curious to read up on it.
I agree with all of your points that you have made, so no arguments there. You certainly sound like you've been in the industry for a 'long, long time'. As for this being a smart move, I'm inclined to call it more of a strategic move by Microsoft than a smart move. The biggest concern from their point is that for many years Dell has been the number one supplier of computers worldwide.
If they fail, or more likely, if they start to fail and shrink as so many computer companies before them have done that is going to leave a void in the industry. As you pointed out other companies will fill that void. As you point out any number of lesser companies would fill that void. From Microsoft's standpoint those companies are far less likely to have their interests in line with their own.
The last thing Microsoft wants is a number of computer companies growing up and being willing to get serious about not using their products. Legacy companies can't risk their relationship with Microsoft, but up and coming companies have more flexibility in how they do things, especially when they are based out of China.
You certainly remember "Wintel" and everything that meant, and you'll understand my point when I get a bit frustrated having to explain to people new to the industry what that means. Microsoft is just about out of "Wintel's" and just doesn't have that many companies that they can count on anymore.
On a practical side, many of these companies will be more difficult to secure payment from than Dell. Think of it as being a bit like Wal-Mart, they may not pay well, but they/always/ pay on time. There is a lot of value in that for someone that wants to count on a dependable revenue stream.
Dell is the most loyal company to Microsoft of any of the OEM's and they always play ball. Their efforts on *nix support are minimal and they are legendary for the work they will do try to inspire you to run Windows. With Asian OEM's increasingly dis-enfranchised with Microsoft the need for a partner that isn't going go their own way is paramount.
I wouldn't say things are as bad as around a decade ago when Microsoft bailed out Apple to prevent their bankruptcy. That being said I think a fair argument can be made that Microsoft needs Dell more than Dell needs Microsoft. If your surprised about this investment you haven't been in the industry very long.
Their are dedicated databases that are used for things like rental history and the like. In my case my renter was stealing from me, something that most people don't want to risk. I have a right to make sure that information is published in dedicated databases of bad renters.
In the case of the ex-colleage my point is he should not be helped. He should have had the FBI called and he should be sitting in prison, however that is another discussion. The company chose not to do so because they feared the publicity would put them out of business.
The point is that this guy still tries to work in the field and the original people that worked at the time may no longer work there. That's where you need a database to track things. That means there is a dependency to have data about the incident in a computer to make sure that any potential employer can be properly warned about the guy.
The point being that sometimes there is data out there about people that don't want out there that should still be out there.
The community seems quite interested in using his services and seeing that he beat his legal case. I think it is reasonable that the community help Kim DotCom out on this. He's trying to protect your data as much as his ass, which is more than a lot of companies do.
Instead of bitching and moaning about what's wrong, we should help him fix it. Give Kim security, consider it a mutual internet fuck you to those that deserve it.
The right to be forgotten sounds appealing, it really does. When I first heard about it it sounded like something I liked. However the more I thought about it the more I thought about the **AA's playing whackamole and the logistical nightmares of actually trying to implement such a thing. The next problem is how do you separate it from censorship? It's also next to impossible to cleanly state when and where it should be granted.
Can you demand the right to be forgotten by corporate databases? Facebook sounds easy enough, but what about credit agencies, employers and news agencies? In practice I think it would be next to impossible to implement, as the **AA's have found out time and again - the Internet never forgets.
You also have cases of legitimate needs. I had a bad renter that stayed with me last year. Should he be able to demand the right to be forgotten so that he can get out of a bad referral? How about employers that have bad employees? I worked with a guy that was fired for hosting kiddie porn from a server at work. This guy still tries to get work in the field, should he be able to demand the right to be forgotten by his employer of 20 some years so that he can put down his experience without anyone being able to conduct a background check?
What about news agencies that reported on people that were in the news? Richard Jewell was wrongly described as the bomber for Atlantic City Olympic bombing by many news agencies who did a half ass job of news coverage. Does he have a legitimate right to be forgotten? His life was ruined without cause (he was innocent) and surely he would have cause to be forgotten if anyone would. Or does the fact that he was internationally famous as the person to discover a bomb at the Olympics and then be wrongly blamed for it's placement trump his personal case?
What about the arguments against censorship of people. Hypothetical Bob has his account on Facebook and wants everything about him removed from Facebook. Susan remembers Bob before he went crazy and wants to keep his picture up from their wedding. Does Bob's desire to remove himself from Facebook trump Susan's right to remember her husband as he was before he took the crazy train out of town?
What about government records, are those something that you can demand be forgotten? Many police agencies now host open records of who has been arrested and post this information on their website. If someone is arrested do they have a right to have that information forgotten?
Even if you had a clear legal structure that could say when and where someone had the right to be forgotten, without crossing over into censorship, how on earth are you going to do it? I would lay the last dollar I had that you probably couldn't name 10% of the companies that had information on you if your in a typical first world country.
I really wish we would adopt the European standards on privacy. This is one area where I freely admit the Euro's are doing things right and we are blatantly being ass backwards about things.
This doesn't even pass the sniff test. Microsoft has spent literally billions of dollars (estimates from $5-$10) more than they have made on their entertainment division - by design. They did that as a long term strategic investment for the sole purpose of staying entrenched in peoples living rooms and lives. A computer for every desk and an xbox for every living room. They aren't about to walk away from that now that they are starting to get to the point they envisioned a decade ago.
This is a long term strategic vision, and frankly one that is better laid thought out and executed than what they have done with their operating systems during the same time frame. Ballmer is a bloody idiot in many ways, but he isn't/that/ much of an idiot. Frankly someone should put their games division in charge of the OS division, as they have better vision and long term execution.
Of course this isn't about congestion, if it was other countries with far higher bandwidth allocations wouldn't be charging a fraction of what we charge. Our national broadband is an international embarrassment and is holding back the economy. Hell, even China is starting to deploy Fiber directly to new construction - and - letting you pick your ISP.
Network lines need to be declared a critical infrastructure, turned over to a third party and let consumers truly have a choice of ISP's. There is no competition for broadband in this country outside of a select few areas and the results are overwhelming. If your lucky enough to live in an area with competition you get/much/ better deals.
The free market is a wonderful thing that work around almost any problem. However the free market can't work if competition isn't allowed and monopolies can corner the market. We need another trustbuster like Teddy Roosevelt.
Next election vote for zombie Teddie Roosevelt - dammit.
That is quite the unfair comparison, and Aaron Swartz is no Bradley Manning. Aaron Swartz downloaded academic materials that that were otherwise available to the public and hardly secret. Bradley Manning is a traitor that sought to embarrass his country by exposing as many secrets en mass as he could. Manning did significant harm to international diplomatic relations and endangered countless lives. It's a bit like saying a protestor holding a sign is the same as the saboteur derailing a train, it's intellectually dishonest at best.
I've said time and time again that Oracle doesn't get security, they just don't. They have been pulling things like this for a very long time. I never could have imagined saying this 10 years ago or so, but Oracle, you need to look at Microsoft for some pointers on handling security. Since you probably not willing to do that, I'll spell it out for you:
When you find out about a notable security flaw you need to have a patch ready to go within 60 days. Meaningful notification. The everyday hacks that run IT need to have reasonable notification of security flaws. Workarounds. If you can't fix it, that's fine, but give me a workaround or I'm going to start uninstalling your product. How does it the flaw work? If you can't tell me how it works it means I have to reverse engineer it myself and this annoys me. The difference between theoretical flaws and something that is broken beyond saving is typically 8-10 years. The bad guys make a lot of money by counting on you dismissing security concerns. You need to make it easier to administer updates to your products. You need to make it easier to limit updates to your products. Why does Java 6 automatically update to 7? This is a bad, bad thing.
From a security standpoint I can't think of anything I would wish for more than the death of Java. Every chance I have to get rid of Java I put in my two cents to do exactly that.
The Lisa had a mouse and was pushed by Apple management due to the high price tag. The Apple IIe was much cheaper, had visicalc, supported a certain level of commodity hardware and wasn't pushed by Apple management.
Hey, let's apply these same changes to your right to free speech, this should be easy.
You can only write up to 7 paragraphs in an article. Any web form that allows you to put more than 10 paragraphs into an article has to be destroyed or sold out of state. You have to have a background check before submitting your article to anyone but immediate family. You can only buy your text editor from a licensed dealer.
Your okay with all of those restrictions, right? You should be because I can promise that you that speech and ideas have killed far more people than guns ever have.
They were in a bind on this with no safe way to do this at all. Make something that is politically correct in some parts of the world and you'll deeply offend other people in other parts of the world with different values. Different cultures simply don't share the same set of values and when we try to impose are values on other cultures it creates a lot of resentment.
It's a balancing act and Bioware is well aware of this. They tried to strike a balance and they were going to be damned no matter what they did. I'm not saying I had a better idea (I don't) on how to do this, but give them credit for trying. There's a country song out right now that's become popular that could just as well be relevant about this as well, "Southern Comfort Zone".
I take it you have never known someone that has paranoid delusions in your life. If you had experience with something like ADHD and met someone that was suffering for it you may well take a moment to talk to them about it. There's nothing funny about someone suffering from mental illness and not getting the help they need.
This wasn't a 'nerdish' question, this was someone who was so naive as to get people to start talking about making your own CPU's etc, etc, etc.
A 'nerdish' question along the same lines might have been something like:
"which OS is best for a live boot environment for internet cafe's? I need to travel and want to make sure my bank account doesn't get hacked. I know a little bit about Windows, however I'd love to try a Linux distro to learn something new."
That would have limited scope and you would find many people on this site who would happily answer a question like that with legitimate answers with a small fraction of the mocking of the poster.
I know it's popular to bash Microsoft on Slashdot, but this is as absurd as asking if Windows Phone 8 is as even matchup to Android or IOS. The story and article are flame-bait and should be treated accordingly.
You don't need computer security, you need psychiatric help, seriously. I've known people with paranoid delusional conditions before. Talk to to Psychologist about getting help and make sure you take care of your mental health. You really, really, don't want to end up on the street where your mental health spirals out of control.
If your not willing to work with that than I suggest you keep a few practical thoughts in mind:
The FBI doesn't care about your porn habits unless they involve underage kids. The CIA could care less about you unless your working on behalf of a foreign government and even then probably not. The NSA consider you a civil matter.
If your in another country simply substitute your local government agency for the right one.
Frankly if you were working for anybody that the CIA, NSA etc actually cared about you would be getting professional advice from your employer, and not by asking Slashdot. You sound like a young person thinking about becoming a script kiddie or someone with delusion of prosecution over warez trading and porn surfing. The comment is quite sincere, you need to seek help from a mental health professional.
I just saw this in 3D at the theater yesterday, and I had two experiences with it. First the tickets were more expensive. Second the 3D effect (which had a lot of potential), was almost non-existent. There was a bit of added depth, almost as if they were trying to be subtle. However there was absolutely nothing about that experience whatsoever that made me think, "neat, that was 3D". Frankly it was a waste of money to see the movie in 3D, and the same has been true for other movies I have seen in 3D. It's just not worth it.
I'm glad bee venom is worth something, perhaps it will inspire people to try stave off the great bee die off. However I don't give a damn what wasp, hornet, or yellow jacket venom is worth, if I see one in the wrong place it's going to die a horrible death. Dammit
Why aren't we looking at keeping the crazy people themselves off the streets? As someone who has known someone that was mentally unstable and worked with their doctors to have them committed it's next to impossible to have an unstable person committed involuntarily. Typically the best you can do is 3 days, and beyond that nothing can be done unless they are an/immediate/ risk to themselves or others.
The standard needs to be changed to indeterminable risk to themselves or others, as this would make all the difference in the world in keeping unstable people off the streets and the rest of society safe. The standards are simply too stringent and by closing the institutions we have gotten rid of all of the economies of scale that allowed unstable people to have access to the physical and mental health care that they need. The result now is that the mentally unfit are homeless and society isn't protected from the unstable. The idea that this is somehow more 'humane' is ludicrous.
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Your famous for not having earned your degree, yet you persevered and your reputation for your work goes far outside your field. How hard was it to be taken seriously in your field without the required degree? I ask as someone who also works in a University at a senior level without a degree.
If they can turn off the encryption than they have lost plausible deniability. This is bad for their survival if they want to be able to claim that they don't know what they have on their servers (a brilliant move). This puts everyone's data at stake as they can be sued or re-seized back into oblivion as before.
This may have been done to allow them to de-dupe data on their servers to save space as a practical logistical issue. This issue needs to be addressed above and beyond any other issues. Until Mega resolves this issue with a clear and unwavering answer that they /cannot/ see their data it is probably best not to upload anything confidential just yet.
The servers are now a single point of failure and the target of attack, this is a really big deal. Please fix this Kim, I want to see your service succeed.
That is one thing I haven't got a clue on. Understand the industry, sure, understanding how things like that work? Beat's me.
I have seen amazing amounts of control done with minority stakes over the years. It's always baffled just how much control you can have with a minority stake, and I have never understood why and how that works.
Is it really this simple? I have dealt with one form of regulation (including some Euro regs) for many years now and I have never encountered something that simple. I don't know enough about how they are trying to do things, but having been there - done that with other regulations over the years I've learned bureaucracy is never simple.
I'm not opposed to the concenpt of the 'right to forget', it's the logistical details that make me go, 'wait a moment'. If you have any good primers on the actual in's and out's and not on the propaganda I'd be curious to read up on it.
I agree with all of your points that you have made, so no arguments there. You certainly sound like you've been in the industry for a 'long, long time'. As for this being a smart move, I'm inclined to call it more of a strategic move by Microsoft than a smart move. The biggest concern from their point is that for many years Dell has been the number one supplier of computers worldwide.
If they fail, or more likely, if they start to fail and shrink as so many computer companies before them have done that is going to leave a void in the industry. As you pointed out other companies will fill that void. As you point out any number of lesser companies would fill that void. From Microsoft's standpoint those companies are far less likely to have their interests in line with their own.
The last thing Microsoft wants is a number of computer companies growing up and being willing to get serious about not using their products. Legacy companies can't risk their relationship with Microsoft, but up and coming companies have more flexibility in how they do things, especially when they are based out of China.
You certainly remember "Wintel" and everything that meant, and you'll understand my point when I get a bit frustrated having to explain to people new to the industry what that means. Microsoft is just about out of "Wintel's" and just doesn't have that many companies that they can count on anymore.
On a practical side, many of these companies will be more difficult to secure payment from than Dell. Think of it as being a bit like Wal-Mart, they may not pay well, but they /always/ pay on time. There is a lot of value in that for someone that wants to count on a dependable revenue stream.
Dell is the most loyal company to Microsoft of any of the OEM's and they always play ball. Their efforts on *nix support are minimal and they are legendary for the work they will do try to inspire you to run Windows. With Asian OEM's increasingly dis-enfranchised with Microsoft the need for a partner that isn't going go their own way is paramount.
I wouldn't say things are as bad as around a decade ago when Microsoft bailed out Apple to prevent their bankruptcy. That being said I think a fair argument can be made that Microsoft needs Dell more than Dell needs Microsoft. If your surprised about this investment you haven't been in the industry very long.
Their are dedicated databases that are used for things like rental history and the like. In my case my renter was stealing from me, something that most people don't want to risk. I have a right to make sure that information is published in dedicated databases of bad renters.
In the case of the ex-colleage my point is he should not be helped. He should have had the FBI called and he should be sitting in prison, however that is another discussion. The company chose not to do so because they feared the publicity would put them out of business.
The point is that this guy still tries to work in the field and the original people that worked at the time may no longer work there. That's where you need a database to track things. That means there is a dependency to have data about the incident in a computer to make sure that any potential employer can be properly warned about the guy.
The point being that sometimes there is data out there about people that don't want out there that should still be out there.
The community seems quite interested in using his services and seeing that he beat his legal case. I think it is reasonable that the community help Kim DotCom out on this. He's trying to protect your data as much as his ass, which is more than a lot of companies do.
Instead of bitching and moaning about what's wrong, we should help him fix it. Give Kim security, consider it a mutual internet fuck you to those that deserve it.
The right to be forgotten sounds appealing, it really does. When I first heard about it it sounded like something I liked. However the more I thought about it the more I thought about the **AA's playing whackamole and the logistical nightmares of actually trying to implement such a thing. The next problem is how do you separate it from censorship? It's also next to impossible to cleanly state when and where it should be granted.
Can you demand the right to be forgotten by corporate databases? Facebook sounds easy enough, but what about credit agencies, employers and news agencies? In practice I think it would be next to impossible to implement, as the **AA's have found out time and again - the Internet never forgets.
You also have cases of legitimate needs. I had a bad renter that stayed with me last year. Should he be able to demand the right to be forgotten so that he can get out of a bad referral? How about employers that have bad employees? I worked with a guy that was fired for hosting kiddie porn from a server at work. This guy still tries to get work in the field, should he be able to demand the right to be forgotten by his employer of 20 some years so that he can put down his experience without anyone being able to conduct a background check?
What about news agencies that reported on people that were in the news? Richard Jewell was wrongly described as the bomber for Atlantic City Olympic bombing by many news agencies who did a half ass job of news coverage. Does he have a legitimate right to be forgotten? His life was ruined without cause (he was innocent) and surely he would have cause to be forgotten if anyone would. Or does the fact that he was internationally famous as the person to discover a bomb at the Olympics and then be wrongly blamed for it's placement trump his personal case?
What about the arguments against censorship of people. Hypothetical Bob has his account on Facebook and wants everything about him removed from Facebook. Susan remembers Bob before he went crazy and wants to keep his picture up from their wedding. Does Bob's desire to remove himself from Facebook trump Susan's right to remember her husband as he was before he took the crazy train out of town?
What about government records, are those something that you can demand be forgotten? Many police agencies now host open records of who has been arrested and post this information on their website. If someone is arrested do they have a right to have that information forgotten?
Even if you had a clear legal structure that could say when and where someone had the right to be forgotten, without crossing over into censorship, how on earth are you going to do it? I would lay the last dollar I had that you probably couldn't name 10% of the companies that had information on you if your in a typical first world country.
I really wish we would adopt the European standards on privacy. This is one area where I freely admit the Euro's are doing things right and we are blatantly being ass backwards about things.
This doesn't even pass the sniff test. Microsoft has spent literally billions of dollars (estimates from $5-$10) more than they have made on their entertainment division - by design. They did that as a long term strategic investment for the sole purpose of staying entrenched in peoples living rooms and lives. A computer for every desk and an xbox for every living room. They aren't about to walk away from that now that they are starting to get to the point they envisioned a decade ago.
This is a long term strategic vision, and frankly one that is better laid thought out and executed than what they have done with their operating systems during the same time frame. Ballmer is a bloody idiot in many ways, but he isn't /that/ much of an idiot. Frankly someone should put their games division in charge of the OS division, as they have better vision and long term execution.
On Comcast they appear to be blocking uploads to the website. I can access and interact with the site but all uploads are completely blocked.
Of course this isn't about congestion, if it was other countries with far higher bandwidth allocations wouldn't be charging a fraction of what we charge. Our national broadband is an international embarrassment and is holding back the economy. Hell, even China is starting to deploy Fiber directly to new construction - and - letting you pick your ISP.
Network lines need to be declared a critical infrastructure, turned over to a third party and let consumers truly have a choice of ISP's. There is no competition for broadband in this country outside of a select few areas and the results are overwhelming. If your lucky enough to live in an area with competition you get /much/ better deals.
The free market is a wonderful thing that work around almost any problem. However the free market can't work if competition isn't allowed and monopolies can corner the market. We need another trustbuster like Teddy Roosevelt.
Next election vote for zombie Teddie Roosevelt - dammit.
That is quite the unfair comparison, and Aaron Swartz is no Bradley Manning. Aaron Swartz downloaded academic materials that that were otherwise available to the public and hardly secret. Bradley Manning is a traitor that sought to embarrass his country by exposing as many secrets en mass as he could. Manning did significant harm to international diplomatic relations and endangered countless lives. It's a bit like saying a protestor holding a sign is the same as the saboteur derailing a train, it's intellectually dishonest at best.
I've said time and time again that Oracle doesn't get security, they just don't. They have been pulling things like this for a very long time. I never could have imagined saying this 10 years ago or so, but Oracle, you need to look at Microsoft for some pointers on handling security. Since you probably not willing to do that, I'll spell it out for you:
When you find out about a notable security flaw you need to have a patch ready to go within 60 days.
Meaningful notification. The everyday hacks that run IT need to have reasonable notification of security flaws.
Workarounds. If you can't fix it, that's fine, but give me a workaround or I'm going to start uninstalling your product.
How does it the flaw work? If you can't tell me how it works it means I have to reverse engineer it myself and this annoys me.
The difference between theoretical flaws and something that is broken beyond saving is typically 8-10 years.
The bad guys make a lot of money by counting on you dismissing security concerns.
You need to make it easier to administer updates to your products.
You need to make it easier to limit updates to your products. Why does Java 6 automatically update to 7? This is a bad, bad thing.
From a security standpoint I can't think of anything I would wish for more than the death of Java. Every chance I have to get rid of Java I put in my two cents to do exactly that.
The Lisa had a mouse and was pushed by Apple management due to the high price tag. The Apple IIe was much cheaper, had visicalc, supported a certain level of commodity hardware and wasn't pushed by Apple management.
The Apple IIe outsold the Lisa 20 to 1.
Hey, let's apply these same changes to your right to free speech, this should be easy.
You can only write up to 7 paragraphs in an article.
Any web form that allows you to put more than 10 paragraphs into an article has to be destroyed or sold out of state.
You have to have a background check before submitting your article to anyone but immediate family.
You can only buy your text editor from a licensed dealer.
Your okay with all of those restrictions, right? You should be because I can promise that you that speech and ideas have killed far more people than guns ever have.
They were in a bind on this with no safe way to do this at all. Make something that is politically correct in some parts of the world and you'll deeply offend other people in other parts of the world with different values. Different cultures simply don't share the same set of values and when we try to impose are values on other cultures it creates a lot of resentment.
It's a balancing act and Bioware is well aware of this. They tried to strike a balance and they were going to be damned no matter what they did. I'm not saying I had a better idea (I don't) on how to do this, but give them credit for trying. There's a country song out right now that's become popular that could just as well be relevant about this as well, "Southern Comfort Zone".
I take it you have never known someone that has paranoid delusions in your life. If you had experience with something like ADHD and met someone that was suffering for it you may well take a moment to talk to them about it. There's nothing funny about someone suffering from mental illness and not getting the help they need.
This wasn't a 'nerdish' question, this was someone who was so naive as to get people to start talking about making your own CPU's etc, etc, etc.
A 'nerdish' question along the same lines might have been something like:
"which OS is best for a live boot environment for internet cafe's? I need to travel and want to make sure my bank account doesn't get hacked. I know a little bit about Windows, however I'd love to try a Linux distro to learn something new."
That would have limited scope and you would find many people on this site who would happily answer a question like that with legitimate answers with a small fraction of the mocking of the poster.
I know it's popular to bash Microsoft on Slashdot, but this is as absurd as asking if Windows Phone 8 is as even matchup to Android or IOS. The story and article are flame-bait and should be treated accordingly.
You don't need computer security, you need psychiatric help, seriously. I've known people with paranoid delusional conditions before. Talk to to Psychologist about getting help and make sure you take care of your mental health. You really, really, don't want to end up on the street where your mental health spirals out of control.
If your not willing to work with that than I suggest you keep a few practical thoughts in mind:
The FBI doesn't care about your porn habits unless they involve underage kids.
The CIA could care less about you unless your working on behalf of a foreign government and even then probably not.
The NSA consider you a civil matter.
If your in another country simply substitute your local government agency for the right one.
Frankly if you were working for anybody that the CIA, NSA etc actually cared about you would be getting professional advice from your employer, and not by asking Slashdot. You sound like a young person thinking about becoming a script kiddie or someone with delusion of prosecution over warez trading and porn surfing. The comment is quite sincere, you need to seek help from a mental health professional.
I just saw this in 3D at the theater yesterday, and I had two experiences with it. First the tickets were more expensive. Second the 3D effect (which had a lot of potential), was almost non-existent. There was a bit of added depth, almost as if they were trying to be subtle. However there was absolutely nothing about that experience whatsoever that made me think, "neat, that was 3D". Frankly it was a waste of money to see the movie in 3D, and the same has been true for other movies I have seen in 3D. It's just not worth it.
Hate to spoil a touch of nuclear scaremongering, but the old nuclear test sites have been open to tourists for decades.
http://www.atomictourist.com/nts.htm
http://www.bikiniatoll.com/
I'm glad bee venom is worth something, perhaps it will inspire people to try stave off the great bee die off. However I don't give a damn what wasp, hornet, or yellow jacket venom is worth, if I see one in the wrong place it's going to die a horrible death. Dammit
Why aren't we looking at keeping the crazy people themselves off the streets? As someone who has known someone that was mentally unstable and worked with their doctors to have them committed it's next to impossible to have an unstable person committed involuntarily. Typically the best you can do is 3 days, and beyond that nothing can be done unless they are an /immediate/ risk to themselves or others.
The standard needs to be changed to indeterminable risk to themselves or others, as this would make all the difference in the world in keeping unstable people off the streets and the rest of society safe. The standards are simply too stringent and by closing the institutions we have gotten rid of all of the economies of scale that allowed unstable people to have access to the physical and mental health care that they need. The result now is that the mentally unfit are homeless and society isn't protected from the unstable. The idea that this is somehow more 'humane' is ludicrous.