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Comment Re:Not a vulnerability (Score 3, Informative) 77

I also don't see the huge issue here. Perhaps this is the fabled clickbait?

If an app is malicious and running on a machine, of course it can reroute, or look at data in RAM pre-encryption, or a number of other things.

If you want to be more secure, then only do secure comms on a trusted network, where any VPN routing is done outside of your potentially compromised device, and other routes are blocked.

Comment Stupidity... (Score 4, Insightful) 1038

I know I will be bombarded by right wing-nuts and tough love justice advocates (cold fjord are you here?), but does anyone not see the ridiculous hypocrisy of the death penalty?

You are not allowed to kill, but it okay for us to kill you.

I won't get into the fiscal debate as to whether it is cheaper to lock away someone for life or to execute with multiple appeals and proceedings. It shouldn't matter. If it is wrong to take a life, then it is wrong to take it in any circumstance. End of story. Then when you factor in the fact that we are constantly finding innocent people convicted (if not for death penalty offenses). Often due to poor representation, over zealous prosecutors, or shoddy politically or financially motivated police and forensic work, it would seem to me that the ethical cost of killing one innocent person would outweigh all of it. Even if our judicial system was perfect, humans make errors.

However, as with so much else in our society, our desire for vicarious retribution, our poor ability to truly judge relative risk, and the fear peddled by those in power to keep you caged keep winning.

Comment more is coming (Score 4, Insightful) 129

Our college system trolls students with unneeded but course required new book editions. It trolls students with massive debt. It trolls science with god knows how many crap papers just became there is an constant push to publish, publish, publish. Why shouldn't they troll patents too?

The murican postsecondary education system, the troll under the bridge to your future.

Comment Re:What about... (Score 1) 61

Since not every thing is fully sequenced, I would wager a guess that they search the 'soup' for specific sequences that are known thought to be unique to a species. The rest would just be noise to the data they are seeking. However, if say bluefin tuna had a lesser or unknown related species that also had the same thought to be unique sequence, it could make their estimates high. However if it was an unknown species the fact that it is unknown means that there are probably very few and the difference would be negligible and within the margin of error.

Comment Wait what? (Score 4, Insightful) 335

Open access roads are used to transport drugs. Open access city streets can hold dealers and prostitutes. Public libraries have been used to read about revolution and bomb making and pot growing.The postal service has been used to facilitate illegal payments. Lets close them all DOWN.
Pro tip, just because it is online, or open source, does not make human nature any different.

Some people will beat their spouse or hire a hitman. Some people will be addicts. Some will sell to the addicts. Some will fondle their niece.

Claiming some tool is enabling these behaviors and ignoring that tool's greater benefit greater benefit to society is either fear-mongering or blind unthinking fear (possibly instilled by other fear mongers). If the former, you are the worst kind of control hungry sociopath to use fear to restrict others. If the latter, you are a puppet and a simpleton. in either case, you do not deserve to be in any position of leadership.

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