This guy isn't in Russia any more, he defected, so this is either disinformation from someone in the US/UK security apparatus, disinformation from the FSB just to screw with everyone, or possibly he just likes to see his name in the papers and has made it all up.
Either way it smells like propaganda of some form.
And because the US government supports the government of Israel. I'm not saying that they are right or wrong to do so, but it is one of the main reasons the US is hated in the Middle East.
And while it's nice that Verizon have a fix, I know that O2 in the UK didn't bother warning my friend when she changed phones.
Remove support for big-endian i386 and amd64.
Before someone suggests the OpenSSL people are junkies, here is what they mention about this:
* yes, but then we have stratus.com who has modified gcc to
* "emulate" big-endian on x86. Is there evidence that they
* [or somebody else] won't do same for x86_64? Naturally no.
* And this line is waiting ready for that brave soul:-) */
So, yes, they are on drugs. But they are not alone, the stratus.com people are, too.
;)
It's important to note that since 2003 the Home Secretary (an elected politician) can no longer issue a whole life order, it's down to the courts. This is in order to prevent punishments from being politically motivated.
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. - Paul Tillich, German theologian and historian