It's a trade-off. No one is going to punch you in the face on the internet for mouthing off.

Go walking down the street of your hometown with a mask/costume or KKK robes on and see how that works for you. "Private citizen" does not mean anonymous in pretty much any part of the real world or real life. You can always be identified by your face.

When you walk the streets of your home town, do you wear a mask and costume to hide your identity? No -- your face is visible. You are a private citizen, you have the right to be left alone or to interact with others as you choose, but you are always identifiable by your face. I feel the internet should be the same way -- you should always be identifiable.

Anonymity is not "privacy" in my books. "Privacy" is being able to prevent anyone else from pretending to be you so you can rest assured that anything you say was said by you and only you.

Anonymous access to the internet is it's greatest downfall. It encourages trolls, keyboard warriors, and harassment. It enables kiddie porn, terrorism groups, and a whole host of other problems.

Given my druthers, everyone on the internet would be uniquely identified and held responsible for everything they say.

More to the point, there is no need to crack the communications to a client if you are in bed with the service provider and have access to their databases and logs.

Client-server encryption is about keeping the bad guys and only the bad guys from sniffing your data. It's up to the service provider to determine how secure your data is actually going to be in light of warrants and subpoenas.

Coding isn't even the new grammar. It's the new spelling. The magic lies in the structure of the data and the dance of the algorithms. Programming is writing a novel; coding is learning how to spell.

If you're not willing to take responsibility for what you say and accept the heat if people disagree with you, you shouldn't be saying what you are in the first place. Only cowards need to hide behind masks, the same as KKK and ISIL members. :(

I don't log in because I have "balls". I log in because I take responsibility for my comments and opinions. But you wouldn't understand anything about that, would you? No, you're just going to anonymously preach to people and demand that they respect and adjust to your viewpoint on security.

I pity you paranoid losers. I'm bi-polar. I know what paranoia is like. You need medication for that.

I mean, seriously you call the GP "cowardly" and you can't even identify yourself. What a fuckin' hypocrite.

No, people like you are the real problem. Judgmental keyboard warriors who don't even have the balls to log in, and who scream and rant at anybody who doesn't think exactly the way they do. People who don't accept that other people's priorities are different. People who don't accept that other people have their own lives to live, and their own decisions to make.

More importantly, Microsoft seems hell bent on discarding the years of research IBM put into the Common User Access guide on which Windows was originally based. A lot of the "new" metaphors *were* tried out during that research, and users hated it as much back then as they do now.

Everywhere I worked in those days, there was Win98 on desktops throughout the corporations. Only the engineers and developers ran NT anywhere I worked.

Of course we're talking a period where "networking" meant file and printer sharing and nothing more.

Stop setting up cash-cow speed traps. :P

Because short of the martial law of troops in the streets with body armor and M16's..... Oh wait... Our COPS have those now.
Well they dont have assult vehicles...... Wait....
Nor do they have grenade launchers...... Welll.....

So basically they have been planning on the shit we have today for decades?

That's actually what it's like at "Mojave Spaceport". Hangers of small aviation practicioners and their junk. Gary Hudson, Burt Rutan, etc. Old aircraft and parts strewn about. Left-over facilities from Rotary Rocket used by flight schools. A medium-sized facility for Orbital. Some big facilities for BAE, etc. An aircraft graveyard next door.