> since a certain mouse is set to expire in 2023.

Spoiler alert: It won't.

It's either a web-service that emails a hyperlink to the message (which can be easily extracted), or something that only works if the recipient installs the same extension. In either case, why would a recipient voluntarily restrict their own access?

Maybe after twenty years, companies will get around to fully supporting IPv6.

(That, or they'll start abusing the shit out of NAT.)

You can rewrite history, but it will break compatibility with any forks or mirrors of the repository - and for popular github projects, there are hundreds or thousands of those. No way to alter commits that have already been published without making it very obvious.

Well, you shouldn't give them the private key, obviously.

really counts as using 'forensic tools'.

Can you... enhance the IP address?

Quickly, before the electrons mutate.

For instance, their paper says that concatenating a million one byte strings into a single million byte string takes 274 seconds. That should take much less than one second

wtf. The only way it could take that long would be if they were concatenating them as immutable strings and had to copy the result repeatedly.

It seems counter-intuitive, but maybe electronic transmission of data is actually more secure than physical transport? Wipe all devices before crossing borders with them, then pull the backup over the internet (through a properly secured connection, of course).

BitCoins are too much in use to ever really go down in value for any length of time now that China is in the game.

They've dropped steadily for most of 2014, though. One could argue that that all of that was still correcting the bubble in late 2013, but that correction has lasted well over a year now. There hasn't really been a good time to hold on to Bitcoin since then, with a few short-term exceptions.

Yeah, Ukraine would never trade Snowden to the US for military aid against Russia.

Well, if the US were willing to risk an armed conflict with Russia in order to get their hands on Snowden, they don't need to wait...

I'd trust an AI over any incompetent human operator in that respect.

like, eg., Predator drones?

The move from that to autonomy is mostly software...

> What a fucking babby.

how is linus formed

Also, most places that do use them internally (eg. the apt repositories) seem to only use the adjective and ditch the animal.

acting with such impunity, you can get in trouble with the law

... um, acting with impunity means not getting in trouble with the law. That's why it's called impunity.