My first thought was RetroShare. This is obviously different than RetroShare, but RS works already and offers a secure method of communication.

I have had a much worse experience with them recently. I was tasked with moving my businesses services to our new office space. I called Comcast, let them know we would be moving 8 blocks away to a building that was already wired for Comcast. They said sure, we will build your order and then email you an install date. I said okay, and waited. I started this process on a Monday, and by Friday I was still waiting on an install date. We had no choice but to move out of our current office by the end of the month and into our new space. I call them Friday and they say that the order has yet to be built and only our sales rep can do that, and hes out for a few days and wont be back until Monday. I spent all day Friday on the phone with retention, the west coast supervisor, and plenty of other Comcast peeons. They assured me they would expedite it that very day. Another week passed with me on and off the phone with them, no progress. So I tried to get AT&T or any other provider on the phone to get a new service in the building instead. Turns out only Comcast can offer services in the area. Long story kinda short, took an entire month to transfer existing services, and we finally got it done on a Saturday before we had to be in the new space. Comcast is horrible. Its insane how bad their internal services are. I have been able to trick them into free UFC fights before, but on the flip side I have been charged for 3 months of services in a single month. Its crazy.

The dude still brings home like 5 billion a year. He's always relevant.

This is my issue as well. Its hard to even think at that level. I have been developing real code (not just learning to code) for about 6 years now. I spent about 2 years doing exclusively python and C programming together. Even with an intermediate grasp on C I couldn't effectively understand the Linux kernel and how to start developing for it. I remember I wrote a file system using a guided tutorial, but the amount of knowledge that took was minimal. The ideal of tracking a bug through 20 years of development in C that has been in the hands of a lot of developers is daunting. Especially now that I work with PHP and Ruby on Rails at work everyday, and have no need to write anything in C. Also no one really teaches C anymore. In college I took C courses but they only counted as elective credits not CS credits because Intro to OOP is all Java. So the problem is a few fold: no one is learning the language the kernel is written in. Learning at the kernel level is more difficult than it needs to be, and the rewards for doing so are far too little. I personally would love to help maintain the kernel, but its hard to get into. I see some links above that I expect are full of relevant information that I plan on checking out, but the situation still stands; there is far more help for learning things like Drupal than there are for people wanting to get into kernel development.

SSL didn't seem to help LinkedIn. They use ssl and they successfully spoofed that.

I do this. But my company is ok with it so its not an issue. The reason why is that I actually handle business related tasks from my phone like emails. We are a very small company, so when something pops up in an email, as the one in charge of our website and all of the technology, I am sometimes the only person that can respond. The article doesn't really mention the types of businesses, the sizes of these business, or even the culture. So they might have surveyed 204 employees from tech start ups comprised of mostly 20-somethings where this type of behavior is not explicitly frowned upon or even necessary. Also what do they count as "formal meetings"? My company has a few meetings a week ranging from marketing campaigns to a weekly check in. If these young adults ares answering social calls, there is a far larger issue here than them answering it in a meeting. But if they are work related calls and texts, this might be acceptable or even required.

Ok, so let's say that we do have NP-complete cryptosystems. Did you manufacture your own hardware? The point, however abstract it gets, is that trust has to be somewhere or you get no where. You simply cannot know everything about everything well enough to validate all information around you, at some point you have to give up control and trust that the people in charge of that portion of your life are doing the job they are tasked with. This is not to say that you do not verify the sources in which you place trust at all! Remain skeptical, but trust to any varying degree is a must.

This is exactly correct. I use SHA256(passphrase,domain) on every site. It is easy to recover my passwords where ever I am and all I have to remember is the passphrase and then look at the domain. I used to just type in a random password and use password resets every time I wanted to log in, that seemed to work pretty well and is about as fast as generating my SHA256 password.

If you are going to take the time to learn a subject past the basics, and you have time, and its affordable, why not get a credential that proves it? Not every industry accepts that you just know your shit. I have a degree in physics, but I work in IT. Some fields make it easier to spot who knows whats going on than others, which is where degrees come in. If the GP wants to eventually change careers, its is much easier to do that with 3 degrees vs 1. Not everyone has the time or money to make this a reality, but if you can I don't see why wouldn't. Open as many doors as possible.

I maintain my companies site on Drupal 7 and it is in fact a resource hog. We have had to add more RAM to our servers twice because when our users go to checkout, our server times out and our users get a 502 error page. To be fair our Drupal site was poorly developed and only halfway done before I got my hands on it so I guess its possible building a site properly and completely would change this.

I agree with this 100%. I live in a bad area, shootings and crime are common place. Yet at midnight when shots are fired I never hear or see cops. Yet I have gotten parking tickets (not from parking enforcement but actual officers) for blocking my driveway by an inch or so. I have said for a while that motorcycle cops are a horrible use of my money, because all they focus on is traffic violations. Police should be out looking for intentional maliciousness not waiting for the first person who happens to roll through a completely empty stop sign. Police shouldn't be in the game to make money. Yet my friend who works a close by Police department says he is literally given monthly quotas that they aim to achieve even though it is explicitly said that a department cannot do that. Police should be more like a non-profit. I would be happy to pay more taxes knowing they were doing their jobs objectively, and actually making an impact on crime instead of just looking at ways of keeping themselves open.

I too am skeptical, and await more independent tests. But currently the E-Cat is looking to be the most promising project in cold fusion. we definitely need more tests, and more data!! Only time will tell if this is just ego-stroking, or the real deal.

Well if something like the E-Cat can make serious strides within the next few years, that might solve some power issues. If... http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2013/05/20/finally-independent-testing-of-rossis-e-cat-cold-fusion-device-maybe-the-world-will-change-after-all/