Comment Re:For Starts (Score 1) 201
Yeah, seriously. Just get Brave Browser and you can turn off those annoying auto-playing videos.
Well, I do use the Brave web browser, thanks. What about the billion or so other people who don't?
Yeah, seriously. Just get Brave Browser and you can turn off those annoying auto-playing videos.
Well, I do use the Brave web browser, thanks. What about the billion or so other people who don't?
Will I be required by law to have social media apps installed on my phone, tablet or laptop? Perhaps there is a simpler method.
There are countries that are right now requiring root certificates belonging to their government be installed on computing devices. The U.S. Attorney General is demanding an encryption back-door such as this right now. No pesky court order required. Your communications are always accessible on demand, in real-time, that way.
It may be that we are not yet cowed sufficiently to let that happen. In that case the author has a point. Get commercial entities to do their thing and then step in an grab the data from them. Just like the good old days when the NSA had wire-taps installed right in the phone company's switching facilities.
We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids? -- I. I. Rabi to the Atomic Energy Commission