This is it exactly. The solutions to the problem of not having phone-like features attached to your wrist (where you can't forget them) are either a: purchase a several hundred dollar bit of tech that you clearly dont know suits your needs, or b: tie your phone to your fucking wrist.

I read it more like "this new gizmo permits generating anything! As long as you have some other way of generating it, then this thing won't get in the way at all!"

The word "enables" sounds more like technology that actually does something, and even that's a stretch. The word "permits" sounds like it's just a link in an otherwise useless chain.

The term "end-to-end crypto" says nothing about who else might have the crypto key. Just blindly assuming that no one in the middle has it, it is a real shortcoming. The only way for a system like you are imaging (where only the caller and receiver have the key) to even work is for you to somehow establish a trusted key with every person you call, on the fly. How do you know no one is in the middle, ready to intercept the key before the first call? The only reason SSL/TLS is reliable is that there is a huge infrastructure of trusted root certificates to validate against (and you have to trust that third party who holds those certs). Guess what they are going to do for encrypted phone calls? The exact same thing.

Knowing that you are talking to who you say you are, and that no one outside of the org you *already* trusted to generate the software and the keys, is the only real assurance. Choosing the right provider of that infrastructure is obviously important. Given that Verizon is a huge, federally regulated company, do you really think anything passing through their hands is going to be immune from law enforcement attempts at seizure? No company at that level, moral or immoral, is going to be immune to state pressure. You should know that by now.

So all the SSL keys that have been generated by the root CAs aren't "worth anything", because the issuer has a copy of the private key? Seems like a funny system we spend billions of dollars on every year...

TFA is a plain ol' troll. CALEA indeed requires any switching systems used for voice traffic (land lines and cell phones) to allow for electronic eavesdropping of all calls going through them. The only caveat is that replacing/upgrading every switching system is completely impractical, even in decades-long time frames, so the FCC has been granting extensions for non-compliance. If Verizon went to the FCC saying that they were going to put software in that started to roll back CALEA compliance from any call that happened to be made using a pair of their cellphones running their provided encryption software, they would have thrown the book at them. New systems *do* have to be CALEA compliant.

My kingdom for a modpoint! This whole submission is a troll right down to the last line, "Apparently, in Verizon-land, "end-to-end encryption" means something entirely different than it does in the real world." Thinking that a large, federally regulated business is going to push a system without a central keystore (what they meant to jab at instead of the "end-to-end" nature) is laughable. Trying to make Verizon out as the bad guy over this is just taking away time that could be spent making them out as the bad guy over legitimate moral shortcomings. But, trolls will be trolls.

It's best to simply define secret as "that which you and you alone know".

The FAA has only pursued "drone" (R/C) pilots who stay below 700' AGL when they fly for commercial purposes (aka as a business). Plus, you can fly manned ultralights without a license; the FAA steps in with licensing when the craft is above a certain size or carries more than 1 passenger. So, yes and no. I should have said "The FAA typically only cares about unmanned flight when..."

You must have a hell of an arm, because the FAA is only responsible for airspace above 700 feet AGL unless you happen to be on or very close to an airport, plus FAA typically only cares when it's a powered craft being used for commercial purposes. And, until there is a standard frozen-drone-through-the-inlet test on jet engines to prove that a strike would be survivable for the aircraft, they do have a duty to take action to prevent a mid-air collision that could kill many tens or hundreds of people.

There was, and is, and will continue to be, a huge difference in what you can do with a 3d printer that costs a few hundred (currency units) and one that costs a few thousand or tens of thousands of (currency units). A Maker who is not interested in mass producing things but instead wants to create a few interesting objects at a time will probably see a huge benefit to being able to just order up the object (instead of outlaying a huge amount for a printer) from a service that has both a very high quality printer, and a delivery chain to get it to them very fast. How many Makers like that are there? Who knows.

Since he mentioned that he is more into management than programming/engineering, the other very relevant "cert" is the PMI Project Management Professional endorsement. This would be the direction to go if he doesn't want to get deeper into the technical soup of vendor-specific credentials.

Yeah, you know, they are "by and large" indistinguishable from the real ones. I mean, what's a few PPM of arsenic, or cyanide, or lead? The rest of the drug is still there, and that's what you ordered. You wouldn't send a gourmet steak back just because the cook brushed a little olive oil and salt on it, when it was listed on the menu as just a steak? So why are we rejecting these drugs?

/sarcasm

North Korea would no doubt draw suspicion by having that much data going toward their country anyway, given that they dont have an open internet. No, if this was in any way related to NK it was by money trail only. They perhaps incentivized a hacking group or an insider with a few hundred thousand USD (maybe a few million if its delivered as counterfeit 20's and 50's) and the rest was done on the ground in the US, from one or many different routes over long periods.

By "next night" it was impossible for you to roll that into "in a week" or even "in a month"? Lights out facilities leave things untouched and even un-looked-at for months on end. And who says the 100TB is the compressed size? No doubt whoever did this was very skilled, packing things in compressed, encrypted chunks for easy exfiltration and minimal chance of detection. If it took them 1 night or 10 nights or 100 nights the plan would have worked the same way.

Except no one claimed that it cannot, only that it is not likely in this circumstance. The question on the table is to what extent dimorphism influences intellectual pursuits. Numerous studies have shown that boys/girls/men/women do not have any measurable difference in cognitive function across domains like math, science, etc. so the question remains, does the fact that dimorphism leaves cognitive capability (the ability to learn and practice a given domain) completely untouched mean that the gender biases toward certain career fields exist primarily outside of genetics?