Whatever they get, they need to have vastly increased battery life over the consumer versions.
Possibly a physical switch to turn off all transmissions as well (so it can be QUICKLY turned off).
Yes, it is better for Google's users because they get to see referer data, probably even when they shouldn't.
Oh...you thought *you* were one of Google's users? Chances are you are product, not a customer or a user.
I know exactly who the 'product' and who the 'consumer' of Google is.
Its irrelevant to this. When traffic is HTTP or HTTPS for Google searches, Google gets that traffic either way. When the traffic is HTTPS though, that means LESS people are getting it (wireless sniffing, routers along the way, etc.) in an unencrypted format. I really could care less what information the sites I go to are missing from the search I entered that brought me to them.
Regardless of what business sense this makes/doesn't make for Google - it is better for the users.
The more traffic is sent via HTTPS, the better. The days of concern over the CPU overhead of HTTPS are long past.
Yes but what crashes? I've been running ESX on Dell's hardware for four years now. The only crashes we ever had were shortly after we started when there were some Broadcom driver bugs which caused ESX to pink screen. We're not a huge shop but over a dozen ESX servers without a crash in three + years isn't going to make this an issue for us.
Kill them with fire.
Not enough. These aren't your run of the mill D&D trolls that can be killed by fire.
Nuke from orbit to be sure.
Even if it is, they may be able to stop GPS from working effectively but each of these jammers is a huge beacon that says "Bomb me". You can't hide the source of a jamming signal for long.
It really is security theater now. I've had to get certs from various vendors for the
How about at the very least the verifications some sites use to show that you control a domain? For example, the CA says that in order to verify 'somesystem.somewhere.com' we're going to need you to put this arbitrary string in a TXT record on your DNS server for that host.
When setting up a domain on Google Apps or MS Live (or other places) they ask you to do this as one of the things to do to prove domain ownership. Yes - obviously if your DNS is owned this isn't a problem, but its a heck of a lot better than the process now.
SLAPP stands for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. Its meant to silence or intimidate critics, who may be completely accurate in what they are saying, just through legal costs. They don't even expect to go to trial, they expect to push a settlement through fear of legal costs.
Someone who wins a case against a company/individual using SLAPP tactics definitely deserves to have their legal fees paid by the 'SLAPPer'.
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