Gotta love the Bias. When the west does these things it's for the citizens or to stop crime, when russia do it, it's all about the spying.

US doesn't recognize the international courts soo...

Nothing to hide, nothing to fear.... nope, still doesn't work.

Every President got in via the electoral college....

Cloud is a fairly well defined term that doesn't relate to any of the above. NIST Definition is pretty good definition of it. Source: http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpu... Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This cloud model is composed of five essential characteristics, three service models, and four deployment models.

Apple stopped decrypting phones. They still provide all your data that has synced to the cloud to anyone who asks. It's just a small subset of cases where they need the phone, not just cloud.

Honestly having worked with government, it sounds about right probably a 1000 hours of meetings to choose the colours, shape, discuss the randomizing algorithm etc. prob took no time at all to write.

I wonder about this, i think the DMCA is still relevant, since they could pursue the 3rd party company that did the hack, and compel the FBI to reveal who that was?

Sounds like the IBM matches vs Gary Kasparov IBM deep blue watched all of Gary's games but Gary was not given the opportunity to watch any of deep blues. Only 3 games, of which Gary got closer. Watching previous games gives you a massive advantage!

It's up there with oil or currency fluctuation!

I think the challenge with Google and Android is that they forked it so they could control the changes and then did all their dev work into any extra layer that isn't FOSS compatible. (Google Services i think it's called) So yes, it's bad, all the changes don't go upstream but they get all benefits of the FOSS development and it's hard for anyone else to complete since android is very base and the google layer (not open source) is required for things to work properly

Could be expensive to find a 501 year old wine to match

Don't worry, you can just burn their white house to the ground like you did last time they invaded.