Good question. Seeing as how the government doesn't send apology letters to everyone whose data they "accidentally" hoovered up and potentially abused in any number of inventive and worrying ways, how are they to know what harm they may have suffered as a result?

Regardless, they've all been harmed statutorily as there was no probable cause for any warrant to issue for their data. The Constitution doesn't have a "no harm, no foul" clause.

I saw an interesting post a few years ago whose thesis was that Starbucks isn't a coffee company; it's a poorly-regulated bank, masquerading as a gift card company, which happens to own some coffee shops on the side. Someone broke down all of the company's public reports to demonstrate that the vast majority of their income derives from investing the money customers pre-load onto gift cards (whether they ever spend it, or not). The amount of cash that Starbucks holds "on deposit" through gift cards rivals the assets of some of the larger banks. I wish I could find the post again.

Whoever jacked the domain obviously wasn't a Slashdotter, or they'd have redirected it to pictures of Heidi Wall.

If you don't like or trust CloudFlare but the WHOIS privacy protection is important to you, the registrar Porkbun also offers free WHOIS privacy, and their rates are reasonable. I've been slowly migrating my domains there for these reasons, plus their easy DNSSEC support.

Well, here's my mileage:

• Archive.is Now: Not compatible with Firefox Quantum
• Classic Theme Restorer: Not compatible with Firefox Quantum
• Flashblock: Not compatible with Firefox Quantum
• Foundstone HTML5 Local Storage Explorer: Not compatible with Firefox Quantum
• Load From Cache: Not compatible with Firefox Quantum
• Places Maintenance: Not compatible with Firefox Quantum
• Self Destructing Cookies: Not compatible with Firefox Quantum
• Tamper Data: Not compatible with Firefox Quantum
• User Agent Switcher: Not compatible with Firefox Quantum

These aren't all show-stoppers, but they define how I use Firefox. I spend at least 8 hours a day at a computer, much of it in a browser. Over the years I've tailored my environment to best suit my needs, my productivity, my usage patterns. The ability to heavily customize the browser's interface and behavior was the whole point of Firefox. Unfortunately, much of that capability died with the move to WebExtensions.

Intel's CEO agrees; a couple weeks ago he sold all the Intel stock he can. If he'd dumped any more shares, he would have had to forfeit his job. That isn't a man who's confident about the future of his company...

I haven't yet looked at whatever bits of patch are public, but since this problem only applies to a subset of chips, there will almost certainly be an ifdef in kernel/cpu/intel.c to toggle the fix. At the very least, that means it'll be optional if you compile your own kernel.

To quote Brianna Keilar: "Most of them?" A lot of CAs offer instantly-issued DV certificates now. All you have to do is place a verification file on the target domain, or create a special A record in the DNS, in order to prove to the CA that you control the domain. If I can manipulate the DNS such that wikileaks.org points at my server (even temporarily), I can get the CA to issue me a valid certificate for wikileaks.org. They're likely to revoke it once the tampering is discovered, but that could be many hours later and your browser will trust it in the meantime.

One possible mitigation is Key Pinning. This can potentially alert users to a certificate mismatch, but only if they've visited that site in the past 30-60 days and their browser knows what the keys for the valid certificate are supposed to look like.

Maybe, just maybe, so much of the media coverage of Trump is negative because the things his administration is doing (or not doing) are perceived negatively by a large part of the population. Maybe it's because numerous things Trump promised to accomplish "on day one," or in the first month of his term, or in the first 100 days of his term haven't been done. Maybe it's because Americans figured out they prefer having imperfect health care as opposed to none at all, and they kinda like having clean water that isn't full of coal fly ash. Maybe it's because day after day, more shady connections between Russia and the Trump camp are revealed, and the administration bungles more cover-up attempts. Maybe it's because the president looks outright incompetent having his appointees and White House staff continually infighting, resigning, getting fired, recusing themselves, and finding themselves under investigation by the FBI. Maybe it's because the public doesn't quite approve of Trump's nepotistic despotism, or the very troubling appearance that he's christened his son-in-law to do an end run around various posts that are supposed to require Congressional approval. Maybe most of America doesn't like having an increasingly angry, childish, petulant, petty, racist buffoon being the person who represents them in front of the world.

Nahhh, can't be any of that; it's the (((librul media globalist elites))) who are the problem, right?

They put up a blog post explaining their decision a little while ago.

I take some umbrage at Cloudflare's rationale. Their position regarding this site, as well as various other sites, seems to be "we're just a proxy." The issue with that defense is that by proxying for a site, the Cloudflare service hides and obfuscates whatever provider is actually hosting the content. This is a) by design, and b) necessary in order to make the DDoS protection effective. That doesn't make it any less problematic.

Cloudflare wants to pass the buck somewhere else in the "infrastructure stack," as they call it, and I don't necessarily disagree that what amounts to a glorified transit provider is the wrong place to be implementing blocks. But given the very nature of Cloudflare's service, how does one figure out where else to complain? When a site is using Cloudflare, all roads dead end in Cloudflare's network. The site's name servers are in the cloudflare.com domain. The site's A records are inside Cloudflare IP space. Cloudflare is the primary visible service provider in these scenarios, whether they host any content or not.

Case in point, I've watched this story play out with some interest over the past couple of days. I still have no idea where Daily Stormer's content was actually being hosted. It almost certainly would have violated the AUP/TOS of that hosting provider, and they probably would have terminated the site directly. But with Cloudflare in the way, no one knows who to complain to.

When your business model is being a black-box opaque front for all comers, don't be surprised when the world directs its anger at you.

Economic espionage. NSA has been doing it for decades, despite it not being part of their charter. The most well-known example, and one of few that have become public, is from the 90s. NSA gathered SIGINT for (American) McDonnell-Douglas that allowed them to snatch a $6B Saudi aircraft order away from (European) Airbus. You can bet this sort of thing happens all the time when those sorts of dollar amounts are in play. MPAA claims piracy costs them billions, ergo, call in the NSA and let the laws be damned.

Yes.

By the by, most terrorists are already known to law enforcement by the time they do whatever it is they're going to do. How many times have we heard "the FBI had previously investigated the suspect" or "British counter-terror officials had been monitoring the attacker for several years?" Anonymity isn't really the issue, and even if it were, I'm not going to live my life afraid of terrorists.

The one time I actually want to upvote an APK post, and I don't have mod points! All I can do is say thanks for your contribution.

You could "freely do" all those things with a DVD, too. Then the FBI warning started being un-skippable. Then the preview ads started being un-skippable, which is really great when you pop in an old movie and have to sit through trailers for "upcoming" features that bombed at the box office 5 years ago. What the technology itself allows, and how the media cartels will allow the technology to be used by consumers, are two entirely different things. And they wonder why people pirate.

Neither should Vladimir Putin, the Russian troll factory, an Australian living in exile in an Ecuadorian embassy, or "Guccifer 2.0."

Yet here we are.