It shouldn't be because you password protected it. Unless you use the same password and the same encryption scheme, the MD5 would have been different. Interesting question though if you had not encrypted the file, and it had the same MD5; since when using it as a backup, you did not share the URL to the file. However, it should be noted that Megaupload was a very bad backup service since they deleted files that were not downloaded regularly

Use the "Verbatim" option.

Seriously, the first paragraph of TFA states the SSID: “F--- All Jews and N----”. I assume they used "Fuck" and "Niggers" in reality.

Indeed, I work in Europe. I somehow had in the back of my mind that there is less vacation in the US, but 2 weeks seems really too little. How do you manage to go on holidays?

What kind of slave driver company would only give 2 weeks of vacation per year??? I don't know anyone that has less than 5-6 weeks per year.

It is done to avoid being locked out due to browser sniffing.

this has not been true for more than 2 years. Ads do get blocked from download.

Exactly. Anybody has the link to the original decision? I'm sure it will sound a lot more thought through than the Telegraph tries to imply.

Ice Cream Sandwich will allow you to disable pre-installed apps. They will not be removed as they are stored in the read-only-part (i.e. you don't gain the space) but the icon will disappear and they will never run again until re-enabled.

Wrong. You can hit the top and click and it will change to the respective tab. At least in Win 7 which is what I have at the moment.

Well, in Brussels, Zen Car has had stations for a couple of months now.

The Schneier article is very speculative and doesn't have many facts.

DER SPIEGEL has a much better and more detailed account: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,783778,00.html

Wouldn't it be possible to verify the certificates via the DNS? Once that is secured with DNSSEC, this should be a very good solution. Or am I missing something?

No, I didn't really. I googled it and it is USA independence day. I vaguely remember having heard that date before, but it was certainly not in my active part of my memory. (Being from continental Europe, I was not really affected by US independence and have no reason to remember this exact date. More important is probably to know the time when it roughly happened; IIRC it was at the end of the 18th century.)

I still think you are mistaken. The Omnibox in Chrome is the only thing that sends potentially private data to Google (if you choose to, you can also turn it off or choose to send it to Bing, Yahoo, Ask, etc), and this is in the nature of the Omnibox. I don't really see how it is very different from the search box on Firefox (where the information also goes to Google or Bing rather than Firefox by the way).

I consider SRWare Iron more or less a useless product, which hard codes a number of options that you could (de)select yourself easily. I think it also disables updates and malware protection (which Chrome implements in a way that causes no privacy issues). Iron was probably created to advertise the company SRWare.

Would be happy if you could point me to these "marketing and promotion sites" you speak of where third parties offer data-mining based on Chrome's data submitted to Google. Either those sites are lying or you are mistaken that they exist.