Comment Re: Isn't "Chinese Security Vendor" an oxymoron? (Score 1) 63
I suppose you're not familiar with the genesis of the phrase "illegal flower ceremony" or the history of internet censorship in China.
I suppose you're not familiar with the genesis of the phrase "illegal flower ceremony" or the history of internet censorship in China.
I dont think you really have any idea in how the MSS is different than the NSA.
Lets start with the fact that the MSS gives no craps, they straight up block sites like Google who dont play the censorship game, and they inject malicious javascript into millions of citizens sessions to enact a government-run DDOS of foreign sites.
The things the NSA does that are violations of our principles are extra-ordinary. The things that the MSS does on that scale are ordinary, expected, and well documented.
How about the fact that if you think the NSA does some crazy malware stuff with Flame and Stuxnet, at least they tend to confine it to foreign political targets. China has probably the largest censorship and MITM infrastructure in the world, and actively uses it to pull average citizens into a government run botnet to DDOS western sites.
Not to mention that any sufficiently large business needs to have the explicit blessing of the powers that be in China.
All of that combined means you would have to be crazy to trust Qihoo; the FSB-affiliated Kaspersky is more trustworthy. Installing Qihoo gives one of the most technically competent, politically repressive organizations in the world root access to your computer. That more than anything is sufficient reason to not use them.
Call me when Symantec has close ties to a government that denies the Tianenmen Square massacre and actively represses search results on it.
not that a corrupted elite gamed the system in their favour
My understanding is that essentially no one pays taxes in Greece-- not because they arent owed, but because no one wants to.
Its not just the elite who are the problem, as fun as it is to try to make them universal scapegoats.
The anger-generated-per-word ratio in this post is off the charts; well done.
Im not sure you understand how printer drivers work. They arent all loaded simultaneously on every windows PC.
Not sure if you've been watching the news, but China has been using Baidu effectively as a botnet because they are able to intercept and modify javascript sent via HTTP.
Stops a lot of threats, even if you're just a hobbyist; it ensures that an attacker cant just intercept your hobby page and drop a bunch of exploit kits on it.
pre-embryos are some neoconservative evangelical dry-hump term used to justify strange ballot measures
Because as we know, the New Yorker is a hotbed of neoconservative evangelical activity.
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Why are you limiting it to just 3 people? It seems like a contrived problem.
If you're worried about the bigger principle and the slippery slope, censorship is a far bigger worry than folks not telling the difference between an ad and a search.
Obviously its such fantasies as "Armenian Genocide" and "Tianenmen Square", duh. I have it on good authority from the countries involved, they would know.
I think a great deal of the folks on slashdot could actually benefit from a class on that, is someone willing to do a seminar?
I swear, the number of times we see censoring (but only of the actually bad stuff!) being advocated here...
but maybe we don't skewer them for [exercise of free speech]
Good call.
But if theyre the ones making the packages, they sort of have the say in how those packages are built. That is to say, if you dont like it, build your own packages. It seems perfectly legitimate to me for a software developer to make choices that may have tradeoffs in order to reduce the complexity of the development; this is a pretty common thing in fact.
And if it turns out that the things RedHat is designing their software to do dont meet your needs, I would wonder why you would use Red Hat.
IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.