I would say at any point the CEO of a company has to chime in with,"...its service isn't to blame." is a bad position for that company to be in.

Or they have already cracked what is on the laptop but need a way to legalise it. Either way they have him. Refuses to log in, gets time. Logs in, gets time.

In lots of ways isn't cryptocurrency the wet dream of global business. They not only get to free themselves of being beholden to government controlled currencies and at the same time they can tell the banks to stick it as well?

The article says the Guardian seeks to expose the lie âoeIf you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear.â but it is worth remembering that isn't the first or only lie. It starts with denial and continues with obfustication as politicians and security agencies stretch the news cycle out to find what exactly has been exposed and to bore people. If there is evidence that is was used by the security it will be again stretched out in the news cycle in small tit for tat exchanges concerntrated on minutiae further boring the populace. Perhaps an official investigation will be lauched that concludes, after 2 years and five truckloads of worthless redacted documents, that it indeed did happen but was the fault of a contractor who no longer works for them and luckily the program was caught by the agencies own internal oversite and oh golly isn't it good the systems works. Finally, having spent all this time getting the populace so thoroughly bored and confused and internalising the existance of the program, the government will legalise it and publically extent it in order to protect national security. I read yesterday the cows are less stressed if you put curves in the alleys. With humans you just take a subject from easy to difficult and then they would rather believe the authorities than have to expend the effort on mass.

The Guardian is running a story on election interference,

"Vladimir Putin personally authorised a secret spy agency operation to support a “mentally unstable” Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election during a closed session of Russia’s national security council, according to what are assessed to be leaked Kremlin documents."
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Last month they reported on a British Naval vessel entering Crimean waters and the US Navy supposedly got driven away after entering disputed waters in the South China Sea.

I am sure there is more going on but the world seems to be a little testing at the moment and, quite frankly, if the documents are verified it would be very close to an act of war. Ukraine, Crimea, South China Sea...The US is getting push back in lots of places. I doubt they are going to allow election interference to get away with just a $10,000,000 reward.

This sort of conversation always seems to focus on the people who actually got a degree so can everybody take a moment to think of the people who failed to get the degree for whatever reason, mental health, family problems, accommodation, relationship breakup, pregnancy, etc....Because those people got to the carry university debt without the possible higher wages. They always seem to get forgotten.

And I am aware that this is a masters degree and what I am talking about mostly happens during bachelors degrees but the failures seem to be the hidden people that university's don't talk about.

Because the reporting was pretty over the top.

That being said, the ability of a company to come and essentially take over an open source project is fairly disturbing. Just the name alone is worth a lot and any fork will have an uphill battle to gain that name recognition.

As for Muse Groups intentions, they seem pretty suspect to me. A suspicion that is not helped by BeauHD comparing it to the IP address collection of a web server because a server needs the IP to serve the page, Audacity does not. Or by them saying "This is an effort to avoid the added complexity and expense of dealing with laws regulating collection of personal data from children. ". If they did say that, and the summary is unclear to me whether they did or not, then they are going to run into trouble since they know Audacity is used by a lot of children.

Either this is fully opt in (like syncthing, etc...) or I will opt out of using it. If it had been like this from the start I would probably not have cared but I don't like it when new people take over change the rules in a way that doesn't suit me and I certainly don't want to be in a situation where, having partially decided to use an OS based on it's lack of telemetry, I am now having to go through the applications one by one to opt out of it.

"...one of the department's most significant priorities..." Emphasis mine.

It seems to me to be a good place to weight diversity in with meritocracy. They aren't going to be, or need to be, or paying to be, hiring 2000 of the best. Just 2000 good cybersecurity personnel and hell, it's America, you're drowning in them. And if that means you end up with a workforce that isn't only white male straight etc... then so be it. It isn't like the current workforce had the problem under control.

I would say that is pretty close to the point. People who get donations from their following on social media at some point think they could get more money if they created their own little social media cult service. I know of one enterprising individual who has gone from saying the intelligence agencies are trying to kill her to raising over $100,000 US to start her own social media network.

Well, they are leaving out the automated systems that report directly. For instance, in 2019, Facebook automatically sent almost 16,000,000 automated reports of suspected child exploitation to the National Center for Missing and exploited children. If there were no double ups then that is a report for roughly one quarter of the children in the US for that year alone. https://web.archive.org/web/20...

It's probably just education. Children from the future coming back on schools trips to see the world before "the change".

Give it ten years and it probably will be....

As for how the medium is expressed, that obviously does matter. Playing the movie as is is forbidden and, in Japan, apparently summarizing the movie in the same medium is forbidden. How about creating a cartoon out of the movie and using that in the summary? Characters that look like characters in the movie in the summary? Etc....

Although, I imagine motive has a lot to do with it as well. If it is for profit then it is way more likely to be attacked than not for profit.

How it should have ended must be worried. I mean, they say they are parody but they also give away the plot line. https://www.youtube.com/user/H...

It can't be to long until Julian Assange is in the same type of headline. Almost everybody seems to have forgotten that he is still in prison. His supporters have been targeted and divided into toxic groups with people siphoning of their money for their own ends and he has been muzzled for years.

But that seems to be the way it happens now. The US is viewed as so corrupt that people will go above and beyond to try not to get sent there. And then, if that fails, they kill themselves.

I imagine they are probably dead and that there was a kidnapping or some other form of extortion involved. The hack story seems a little too flaky and asking clients,"not to report the incident to lawyers and authorities" is basically telling them to report it to the authorities.

After all, what better way to anonymise the money and to keep the authorities looking at the wrong people than to take the bitcoin and then kill the brothers to hide your tracks.