Doh! Too early, damnit!

Ummm. Don't all plants and "animals" contain DNA? Don't we humans also "contain" DNA? Whisky Tango Foxtrot, over. OMG Ponies. I hear that our local water contains di-hydrogen oxide.

Note that Montgomery County, Maryland, is a bedroom community for the U.S. Capitol. Its residents are overwhelmingly denizens of the ecosystem of national government (government officials, workers, support contractors, lobbyists, and parasitic non-profits). As such Montgomery County, and indeed the Beltway megapolis at large, fully reflects the values and mores of those who consider themselves the ruling class. Yes, this is how these people view the world. This is how they see you as subjects.

Yes. Absolutely.

In the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Maryland (DPRM), your judgment is subordinate to that of any and all benevolent and wise agents of State control.

How insightful. Greetings from the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Maryland (DPRM), and welcome to our highly advanced Nanny State. We are indeed programming future generations to utterly depend on the One Party for their wellbeing, cradle to grave, in joyful and obedient service to our elite maternal benefactors. statism |sttizm| noun a political system in which the state has substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs: the rise of authoritarian statism.

So, how can you be sure that "click here" in TFA doesn't itself download malware disguised as malware detection? If I were a black-hat govy who wanted to root out people worried about government malware, I might use such a ruse. Think about it.

It's time to quarantine malicious actor countries. We need to study innovative means, methods, and architectures to isolate, contain or somehow filter extremely maliciously behaving countries. A "Great Firewall of China" is becoming a more and more obvious need.

Make sure you get specific written permissions, and execute your exercise in a controlled, preferably closed, network to prevent unintended or collateral damage. Lots of laws come into play, and you don't want to risk liability for damage or criminal culpability for breaking any laws.

Concur. Every crime against a victim who happens to be a woman isn't a "Crime against women," any more than every crime whose victim hails from a particular race or religion isn't a crime against that race or religion. People need to stop blowing so much political smoke. It only makes the debate and all of its participants more stupid.

The problem with that approach is that information releasable under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) does not include information that has been classified. Another kicker? The category of unclassified information administratively designated "For Official Use Only" (FOUO) is also exempt release under FOIA. Even though FOUO is clearly defined, its use is increasing applied with considerable discretion, to the effect that Agencies routinely mark nearly everything FOUO these days. I am neither defending nor condemning these practices, just explaining. "Catch-22 is a beauty, all right!" - Yossarian

Thank you.

Could not agree more. Competition is one thing. Facilitating competitors' advantages against one is quite another.

Bingo.

Moonshine?