It says you need a Facebook account, not your Facebook account.

Just register a new Facebook account, never use it for anything and use it.

Ever heard of 51% attack? Or Sybil attack?

There are few ways to get hold of the password manager database, and the easiest one is compromise the user computer. But if you do that, you can install a keylogger and grab everything.

And what is more common? Password leaks from insecure services (as I write this, HaveIBeenPwned records 10,240,427,866 leaked accounts), or a keylogger being installed?

My password manager is not a cloud based one (so no fear of it being left insecure and get stolen), and the master password is almost 60 bytes long. I believe that cracking its password is above the current computing power of the entire planet for the next couple millennia, and that's enough for me.

Use a password manager. Password generating and storage is a solved problem: a password manager.

Seriously people, stop all schemes of creating hard to guess, easy to remember passwords. We are not made to remember passwords!

Password size is important, but less than having unique passwords for each service. It does not matter if your password is 100 bytes long, but you have it for every single service, and one of them stores passwords in plain text and gets hacked. And forget about creating a way to generate and remember different passwords for each service. It does not scale.

With a password manager, you need to remember the master password, and nothing else. It will generate unique, very strong passwords for each service, and you don't have to remember any of them. All my passwords are 64 byte or more, and I don't care if any useless service I use is hacked and all passwords leaks, because no other service I use will have it. And unless they are storing them on plaintext, good luck cracking a 64-byte password.

Why would this site load and send data to example.org? It's a new map, but not that useful. Mobile users should be the target, but it's very slow on mobile.

No, it's not tribalism... This money comes from the local taxpayers, so it's advisable to let those receiving that money to spend on businesses that paid for their money. Kinda like the airlines mileage programs: you earned miles from American Airlines, you spend them on American Airlines. Those programs are city-wide, so giving money to its citizens and forcing them to spend on its own citizens is a good policy,

It's just a natural neural network, not a simulated one...

You will need something that survives way above 60C if this thing will be kept in a metal box in Texas, in the summer...

Better yet, Brasília. Brazil's capital is pretty safe, is a good air hub, weather is nice (if 30C and 12% humidity is considered nice), traffic is bellow average.

It was stolen in Brazil, so it will probably end up on MercadoLivre or OLX.

All telecom carriers on Brazil must block access to WhatsApp servers. 3G/4G, and cable are affected. The only Brazilian users still with WhatsApp access are those using a proxy or VPN server outside Brazil. Like me.

If his phone charger is only 50% efficient, it will be very hot. And it will be on the top of the list of the most inneficient charges ever built.

A few years ago you would be saying "You basically have two major players in mobile OS, Symbian and BlackBerry OS. I don't see that changing..."

Blackberry is dead, Nokia is dead. Android and iOS will die someday too. Ubuntu may be a very very small player, but the licensing and cost will appeal to very low cost hardware makers, and maybe someday Ubuntu phones can flood Chinese and Indian markets. Or they could die as Windows mobile.

I use Avast firewall. On it, I can select what kind of internet access all my programs can have: Wifi only, data plan + Wifi, or none.

For me, is good enough.

Yes, it will protect you. The government will still be able to intercept and listen to your calls, data and text, but they will be encrypted and they will not be able to know what you were talking about.

Expect NSA to hack Silent Circle to obtain the keys, though...