IIRC you need a warrant for perlustrating mail and bugging phones. Not sure that's what's happening here...

What do you do when they tell you to put in new code to intercept login credentials prior to encryption and send it to them? =[

I have seen zero proof of this outside of "trust us, we're the government". No, I don't. Especially after all the bald faced lying they've been doing. I mean, something, anything, redact 2/3 words...

Would that imply that a gay couple that lived in say, Texas could hop up to Massechussets, get married, then come back to Texas, and Texas would have to shut up and deal with it?

He may not (on purpose) have tons of cash, but he has 7% of the vote, in one poll, one debate, zero advertisements. 500 whackjobs * 7% = 3500% of the population. Elections should be about voters, not cash. In my perfect world, campaigning would be limited to large number of debates, and a rotating segment on pbs or c-span or some other public tv. No room for BS.

Yes, that would require the attacker to have the salt generation algorithm (probably the code base), and would possibly mess up automated crackers like in TFA (I think?)

Don't get me wrong DDOSing a courthouse is pretty dumb, but 15 years?

*Why would they Need an edit button =\

Why wouldn't they? If someone can run off with billions of dollars with (seemingly) no consequences, why wouldn't they? For how "brilliant" guys like Greenspan were supposed to have been, they seem frightfully naive in retrospect about basic human nature. The "market" can only punish misbehaving companies if there is complete transparency, which is a fantasy... obvious solution is to just hide what you're doing. They fail to realize that regulations (rules) are needed to protect a free market, just like laws and the constitution are needed to protect individual freedom. Without regulation there is not market freedom but market anarchy. Although in regard TFA what these traders did was always very against the law.

Even more ironic is how closely the Palestinian struggle for statehood mirrors Israel's...

Not to mention driving with one hand and talking to the other occupants... I don't see how talking on a cell phone is functionally different from driving with one hand while talking to the passenger.

What pisses me off is that these companies think they have some kind of entitlement to profit off of me and my data. If anyone should be able to monetize and sell my own information, it's me. If they offered to pay me for it, then and only then will I consent to anything.

As a Jewish kid growing up one of the most important lessons I learned about the Holocaust was not to dehumanize the Germans as a people or as individuals for what happened, as that would make me no different than the Nazi's themselves, rather I should understand why and how they did what they did so that I could do my part in preventing it from happening again. When I try to apply that logic now to Islamic extremism, and Israeli extremism for that matter, I'm surprised at the vehemence of the pushback I get, even from people that really ought to know better (I think deep down they do, that's why they deny it so hard). To say that we "can't understand terrorism or extremism so don't even try" is insane to me. They're just people. Hell international business and finance these days is way more complicated and at least as sinister as any terrorist...

Well, they are developing a new Counter-Strike... I wonder if you'll be able to play a terrorist in a "modern shooter" capacity. Hostages, bombs and everything I hope. I remember on 9/11 I came home from school and loaded up cs (as a terrorist naturally) cause well that's what I always did, hesitated for a second, then thought, "Hell if I stop playing my favorite game cause of this then the terrorists really do win."