citation?

The worst thing the FBI will be able to learn about you if you use this service is that you're interested in security, unless you upload them some warez. They probably already know that about you.

By this same logic shouldn't we be arresting the CEO of baseball bat companies because someone could use one to assault someone, not to mention say gun manufacturers, knife companies etc...

That is a grossly disingenuous misdescription of the events which took place. What he did was cause his person to be transported from one place to another within the airport. What the security staff did in response was to overreact. They had to do that because they were supposed to stop him from doing what he did. Instead, they noticed it after it happened, and then they went into full batshit panic overreaction mode. That's a typical reaction for law enforcement across the globe. When caught with your pants down, act like it's someone else's fault.

Squeeze was the first version to default to dash.

I'm pretty sure I was asked when upgrading to Squeeze if I wanted to make it the default, but the question may not have been a high-priority one so debconf could have been configured to skip it.

This was the first failure. sh should be sh, or at least a decent restrictable shell like ash or zsh, and bash should be bash.

Apache HTTP server using bash as a CGI to process requests

Or any webserver using any CGI that calls system() to execute anything in a computer where the system shell is bash.

aka yourself

Or against github.

The internet != TCP/IP.

TCP/IP was designed to be peer-to-peer, and assumed that you could trust your directly connected peers to behave themselves. There's your anarchy. But the internet depends upon things like IP allocation and name resolution, which are the opposite of anarchic.

Fyfe or Fife?

http://forums.androidcentral.com/attachments/samsung-galaxy-s3/63271d1363369114t-random-social-chit-chat-barney-fife.jpg

Barney F*fe is quite amusing in America as being extremely incompetent and a danger to anyone around him when tries to do , well, anything..

So you're telling me that "security" people are self-important asshats? Who knew?

I started using the name 'Bob' at the local Starbucks because of the pronunciation issue, not to mention I am a wee bit paranoid.

Just because I am paranoid DOESN'T mean they aren't after me.

I had to use a certain brand of detergent or specific equipment in my imaginary dry cleaning business, or that I couldn't charge an extra 5.99 for express cleaning service or 2.99 delivery fee

Of course, of course. But you know, that $7.99 "throw that other guy's laundry in the trash so you can do yours right now" fee, that's over the top.

alternately, were those states only considered to begin with to rub their noses in the potential loss of business?