This. All this procedure is bullshit theatre to make the masses believe there is justice. They do whatever they want including murder and starting illegal wars over bullshit. #Vault7 is proof they want omnipotent control over all communication so dossiers can be formed to blackmail and intimidate all persons who may try to rock the boat.

Sounds like he is just miffed that "journalists" are editorializing science and technology articles. This is a prime example of the trend TFA is talking about.

The Snowden leaks showed us that the NSA uses lying, misinformation and subterfuge as its three main weapons. They have zero credibility and anything they publicly state are lies until proven otherwise.

"Guys! To turn the ship around, let's compete directly with the mobile device market that's been drinking our milkshake for the last ten years."

Nice knowing you Nintendo :(

Apple must buy Nintendo. It's the only way for Nintendo to survive. I say this because their upcoming console looks like another disaster.

So, you choose to remain optimistic because a fiction book you read once described something similar? I hate to break it to you but the tooth fairy, santa clause and reaction-less drives do not exist. The sobering reality of humanity is that our fleshy bodies are stuck in this solar system until our species ceases to exist.

Or we can fix the actual problem instead of going for the UBI band-aid. Just tear up all the free trade agreements and tariff imports so all the unemployed/discouraged will be able to find jobs again. Fences make good neighbors.

Think about what we've all learned from the Snowden leaks. We now know the federal government will stoop to utterly insane levels of paranoia to spread their reach. I would not put it past them to do something like send Microsoft an NSL which forces them to include a DiskFiltration feature in all OS disk drivers just in case they ever encounter a difficult air-gapped target.

Thank %DEITY% for the hacking community who I'm sure will get to the bottom of their insane bullshit with disassemblers and packet sniffers.

"Telemetry! Telemetry! Telemetry!" seems to have been the decree screamed from the ivory tower of MS leadership to the devs crafting Win10.

Seems like desperate flailing to maximize profits from the terminally declining Windows hegemony.

/facepalm

too much coffee

Ah fuck. His comment was already linked in TFA. /faceplam

Steve Carroll, the dev manager for the Visual Studio diagnostics team, responded directly to these concerns on Reddit. The rest of that whole thread is pretty informative as well.

Visual Studio adding telemetry function calls to binary?

While the FDA is at it, can they please tackle all the other snake-oil products at the drug stores? All the homeopathic crap, Airborne Head On, magnet bullshit, diet pills, etc. They are all 100% bullshit placebos.

'Just encrypt everything' you said.

They will just de-prioritize anything they can't read and spy on with DPI until it's throughput is useless.

It's time to take a look at some serious steganography.