But how can we assess the probability of a successful attack? Since most companies choose not to disclose breaches, we don't have meaningful statistics to base our estimates on.

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And you can probably forget about your security clearance if you order any of these books.

It means that they don't provide the encryption keys. And the unencrypted data is provided to government agencies in accordance with the law. Since there are secret laws, we don't know under what conditions the data is provided.

VR for personal use so far has failed because the hardware was crap or unaffordable. I will buy an Oculus Rift and I don't care how it looks. I won't use it for an audience.

Wasn't the frequency hopping rate in cell phone standards lowered to make surveillance more easy? AFAIK this happened far more than a decade ago.

I think it was a Dolce and Gabbanna store that had young men posing half-naked in Baywatch costumes. There was a long queue in front of the store. While I personally don't understand why these people were willing to wait half an hour to buy some shirts, I utterly fail to feel offended by such promo tactics. Seriously - relax.

Maybe Gravel or Kucinic would have been different. But they only ever had a slim chance, if any.

One can only wonder whether all the existing interfaces for "lawful interception" have been compromised or have insiders using them for espionage.

Please re-read that sentence.

Minimizing mutable state helps. A lot.

Have a look at functional and object-functional languages and the communities around them. You can make use of their concepts even if you don't switch languages.

The feedback of the indicator is open to interpretation. If you want to search a car, just use it and claim a positive reading. This gives you probable cause for a search. Same as K9 dogs. They are able to detect stuff, but that seems to be becoming merely an additional benefit.

Nope. Each element would use the relevant display properties defined in the CSS. If the value of a property is not explicitly defined, the default value of the property is used. Some of the inconsistencies between browsers stem from the fact that they assume different default properties (like margins) for specific elements.

Personally, I like the clean minimalism of what I think is being proposed.

One step after the other.

That's why flatr might work. You decide to spend a fixed amount of money per month and that amount is split equally between all the pages that you "flatr'd" in that period.