Grey? What's wrong with your eyes? It's unarguably colourful.

I wonder if the people who created TOR thought it might be useful to the authorities. (That's a LOL, by the way.)

I don't understand the point of the reference to Takedown, nor the irony of Mitnick commenting on another book.

But is there any evidence whatsoever that this is harmful?

Yes, the research was into memos; how long they should be, which font, what colour paper to print them on.

a bird singing some Messiaen the other day. The resemblance was uncanny.

They're capitalists, other than on cultural issues, where they are strictly marxist.

I guess he's just cut and pasted it from somewhere else without understanding what the words mean, let alone in that order.

No, it's better if you're above the Earth. Less friction, see, and people just say "you're running, really - not flying" if you don't take off.

> don't connect the TV to the Internet

It's a smart tv. You wouldn't have one if you weren't going to connect it to the internet.

"It also has a built-in camera â" with facial recognition."

More importantly, it's recording your voice all the time, for processing elsewhere. Nice.

You think they'd hide something nasty then explain what they'd done in black and white?

Having said that, are we going to discover in a year or two's time, that for the last 20 years the NSA (and other bodies) have contributed code to every single open source project out there, and that no-one's actually bothered to check? (You need time, motivation, skills (if you're going to find anything that's not totally obviously written) etc)

Surely even in the UK it's not illegal to follow other people's tweets?

> You say that like it's a bad thing

He's saying it like it's obviously impossible, like more than 50% of schools being above average.

Yeah, but clickety click. Click. Click. Race. Shock. Money. Lives. Click click. Life or death. Click. Choice. Kerching! We have a winner! Kerching!

You know when they get it on facebook messenger; it tells you. You have no idea when they get it via sms, or even IF they got it. If their phone is turned off, lost, of they're abroad then the network might try delivering for a few days, then give up.

But sure, you know they'll get it on their phone because the system is too lame to work anywhere else; messenger, hangouts etc lets them receive it on their phone, tablet, laptop, desktop, or anyone else's device they've logged into.