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  1. Many experts say, however, that any method that would allow the government access even during certain situations would weaken overall security for everyone.

    Why is this even expressed like it's an opinion?

    Because it is an attempt to manipulate public opinion. The same can be observed, for example, when climate change is discussed. In both cases, all experts uniformly have the same take on things, only their take on details differs somewhat. So the facts are extremely clear. But if you are a politicretin that does not understand what a "fact" is and thinks there is wiggle-room, then you look for ways to muddy the waters, and that is one of them.

  2. Re:Encryption is a binary proposition on Australian Officials Want Encryption Laws To Fight 'Terrorist Messaging' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    These people have a learning-disability connected to a hugely inflated sense self-worth. That is the old fatal combination of stupidity and arrogance. It makes people unable to understand things, because they are under the mistaken impression that they already understand everything, and it is just "details" they are missing and these details are of course beneath them.

    Usually you find people like that at the very low end of society, doing unskilled labor because they have not managed to even finish school. But there seems to be a growing trend to find people with this kind of severe dysfunctionality in high political offices. Not good at all.

  3. Re:"I'm not an IT geek, but..." on Australian Officials Want Encryption Laws To Fight 'Terrorist Messaging' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That about sums it up. Looks like we are currently getting rid of our highest achievers on the stupidity+arrogance-scale by moving them into politics. That needs to stop.

  4. "Going dark" has been debunked by now on Australian Officials Want Encryption Laws To Fight 'Terrorist Messaging' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In fact it has been so quite a while ago and repeatedly. These people are clueless. Nonetheless they are demanding more power and more intrusion into citizen's privacy.

  5. Re:BTW, AMD has a similar bug too on New HyperThreading Flaw Affects Intel 6th And 7th Generation Skylake and Kaby Lake-Based Processors (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The difference is that Ryzen is a new architecture, where this is sort-of expected. Intel has this in an old architecture and that is just not acceptable.

  6. Re:Credit monitoring? on Anthem To Pay $115 Million In The Largest Data Breach Settlement Ever (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Prison time for those responsible in management, up to and including the CEO. Before that happens, nothing will change.

  7. No prison time? They got away cheap! on Anthem To Pay $115 Million In The Largest Data Breach Settlement Ever (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    For this minuscule amount per customer exposed, they will likely happily do it all again...

  8. Re: Oh no, security problems might be found! on 32TB of Windows 10 Internal Builds, Core Source Code Leak Online (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I actually have hands-on experience in this area. What the general public thinks and what actual experts know is often quite a bit different. This is one such case.

  9. Re:If the US gets their way, US corporations are d on Does US Have Right To Data On Overseas Servers? We're About To Find Out (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    This is already happening. For example, the MS cloud in Europe is outsourced to Deutsche Telekom, exactly to make sure MS does not have any customer access. This also means a major part of the revenue goes to Deutsche Telekom and not to MS. The reason for that many prospective European customers would not use this service otherwise due to very shaky legal ground.

  10. Re:I think the US has a case on Does US Have Right To Data On Overseas Servers? We're About To Find Out (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Complete BS. As you can basically access all data from anywhere (via this thing called "Internet"), this is not a distinction that matters in any form.

  11. The US clearly does not on Does US Have Right To Data On Overseas Servers? We're About To Find Out (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What we are about to find out is whether it _thinks_ it does have that right, which is a bit different. As we already see companies not storing data from European customers in their own systems but outsourcing that to European companies bound by European data protection laws, I guess id does not matter that much. US arrogance and greed already cost the US economy significantly.

  12. And if they screw up, next planet on What Happens When Geoengineers 'Hack The Planet'? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    We do have some spares, right? Also, we have a lot of experience with this process and understand all its details, so we should surely be able to get it right on the 2nd or 3rd try.

    Seriously, we are screwing up the climate in a fashion we know and understand, yet we can still not stop doing so due to incompetence as a species. And they want to do geoengineering?

  13. Article is nonsense on The People GoFundMe Leaves Behind (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Crowdfunding is not about replacing welfare. It is about funding people that have a worthwhile idea or (as in Patreon) that produce content regularly that enough people want for direct funding, but that for numerous possible reasons the usual sources of funding are not interested in. Crowdfunding is _not_ charity.

    Hence crowdfunding does not have any "fatal" flaw here, that is pure hyperbole of the most stupid kind.

  14. Yikes, another moron without a clue.

  15. This is just hyperbole. Basically no private company does "Top Secret". The maximum level is usually "Secret" and that is it.

  16. Re:Oh no, security problems might be found! on 32TB of Windows 10 Internal Builds, Core Source Code Leak Online (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Actually, it is not. In many cases the source will not help the attacker much or at all. It does make fixing a vulnerability a lot easier though.

  17. They had that capability before. It may not even have been that much more effort. Reviewing source-code is time-consuming, demanding and expensive.

  18. These always were BS. What would happen today is that they would just build their own equivalents not much later.

  19. Indeed. And even of the others do not get the source code, these reviews can be done on lower level as well. Just a bit more expensive.

    Incidentally, for most purposes, the NSA and the GCHQ must be classified as "bad guys" these days.

  20. Re:Maybe do produce products with bad code then? on Under Pressure, Western Tech Firms Including Cisco and IBM Bow To Russian Demands To Share Cyber Secrets (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That should have been "do not" in the title...

  21. Maybe do produce products with bad code then? on Under Pressure, Western Tech Firms Including Cisco and IBM Bow To Russian Demands To Share Cyber Secrets (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And these reviews are nothing to fear. Cone to think of it, maybe have such reviews of your products done independently and regularly anyways?

    I can see nothing bad here, the Russians are doing it right.

  22. Good luck with that if googling your name brings up something like this.

  23. I am not saying this is how it should be, I am saying this is how it is in actual reality. Embarrassing a former employer is career-suicide.

  24. You mistake what I am saying. I am not saying this is how it should be, I am saying this is how it is. That solid proof would also serve to protect _her_ against a lawsuit for breach of contract, as all employment contract for such roles have confidentiality clauses that do not end after end of employment. In this case, the company probably would lose more if they sued her, but they will have very seriously considered that.

  25. And if any prospective future employer knows that you think that, they will be a former prospective future employer. I am not saying this is how it should be, I am saying this is how it is and putting your head in the sand about it is not a good idea.