>>a modern nuclear power plant (zero dead, liberal estimates of 1,000 potential cancer cases

No. it was 573 official deaths, 10 months after.
http://enenews.com/yomiuri-hea...

All of this is because Telekom is making other ISPs paying insane fes for peering, which forces them to route through the USA instead to have peering at a lower cost indirectly to Telekom (also known as Drosselkom), passing all data directly to the NSA and co.

Mining tritium on the moon ?
not a good idea.
If you bring it back and it explodes in the athmosphere during reentry, we are all dead.

BTW, slashdot beta is shit.

Mint is a security problem in itself.
It takes ubuntu, and strips it from upgrade, strips it from some updates, fro broken reasons.
Why break functionnality insted of making the right thing, which would be to limit it by default, for example.

>> A fake cell won't work as in LTE the authentication is mutual:

Yeah. Everything is not encrypted.
There is still a huge attack surface. One simple example : downgrade attack. Simply switch to GSM, and the baseband will respond to your fake BS with the same old buggy and broken protocols, using code not really updated since 1997.

>> Luckily, they still fit in a mylar bag.

?? what should a mylar bag do ??
Better put theim in the thrash bag instead

Code signing ? This does not remove exploitable holes in that cleanly signed (but shitty) code.

Microsoft Warns of Zero-Day Attacks
Use Linux.

ESR ??

Ethylène Sous Réserve ?
Essen Schmitt's Ration ?
Electrically Stupid Replication ?
Enhanced Syrian Relics ?

No.
Good for us all :)

>> Visual Studio Express is free.

not exactly.
it comes with the cost of being tied to an aeging-soon-to-be-obsoleted platform.

What could possibly go wrong ???

>> if their tablet OS wasn't sitting on millions of desktops that I and thousands of others have to support. *ouch*
Just don't support it anymore :)
and breathe.

It's almost as if the security society is selling the appearance of security instead of actual security. Surely, they wouldn't be so mercenary.

>> "I am USA citizen, do not spy on me, dear NSA!" What about rest of the world?

Being a citizen of country X or Y does not change anything, nobody cares in intelligence agencies. Being a citizen gives you no protection.