You're focusing on the number of employees/company, rather than the number of employees/industry sector.
There's only 1 aerospace corp with 4000 employees locally; but there are dozens of florists, bakeries, bars, and other small businesses that employ a LOT more than 4000 people locally.
SMEs generate a significant amount more economic activity than large businesses, in virtually every geographic area.
Hey.....did you guys hear something? I thought I heard a voice say something, but I couldn't quite hear what it was....
So, don't buy a phone online and have it shipped to you. Buy retail only.
Good catch. I missed that one.
The most Apple can do is say that they're not aware of a backdoor, but I doubt this will satisfy anyone with a tinfoil hat.
The tinfoil hat crowd won't be satisfied with anything, you're right. The healthy sceptics, on the other hand, tend to notice not what was said, but what was not said. In this case, Apple specifically avoided mentioning the lack of knowledge of any backdoor. Why would they do this, if they didn't know of one?
You can't promise what you can't prove, and you can't prove a negative. All they can say is that they have not put any backdoors into their own code. They can't promise that there are no unknown exploits or tools that the NSA has developed or acquired to do it.
That's true, but they could at least say "We don't know of any backdoors into our iPhones." That would be a heck of a lot more reassuring, even to an Apple fanboi, than what they actually said, and still doesn't require proving a negative.
GP didn't say "all Apple customers," they said "the Apple customer who'll believe anything coming from Apple, no question asked." That's clearly not all Apple customers, just as the bitching and complaining ones on the forum/blogs are obviously not all of Apple's customers.
Clearly slashdot's common sense quotient has passed its apex with the number of up-mods on this. Snowden didn't download the full NSA database of everything. Ever. Nobody in the NSA has that level of access. Nothing like that likely even exists at the NSA.
Really, it's quite impressive the knowledge you have of internal, top-secret NSA operations. How exactly do you come up with this information?
On top of that, it's pretty widely known that Snowden didn't use just his own credentials to download documents. He accessed several different high level accounts. Between the lot of them, it's entirely possible that he could have accessed everything, or at least the vast majority of data.
Snowden's gone. He's not part of current operations. Who is to say that after he left, the NSA decided to embark on a new intelligence initiative. I know -- it's shocking, but organizations sometimes continue to function and do new things after someone leaves it. And that person, no longer being part of the organization, will know nothing of them.
That doesn't make his old information irrelevant. It just means that any new program which we don't know about is even more of an overreach than all the stuff they've been doing in the past.
The data he stole doesn't offer that kind of granulated access... it's like he shoplifted a library, but all the pages in all the books are ripped out and thrown in the middle of the room. Without the organization and analysis of the data, it's largely useless anyway.
How do you know what he stole? You've never seen it. Maybe it's files organized by folders with very descriptive names, readme documents explaining exactly what's in each folder, all signed and verifiable with a public NSA key. Maybe it's a dump from a database like SharePoint, that embeds documents into the database, rather than pointers, and all the descriptions/categories/other....ahem...metadata, are right there in the SQL, organizing everything exactly as the NSA had it set up.
I doubt it's the dissent that people don't like. It's your NSA-ass-licking sig that they don't like.
Justice? For capturing Snowden? WTF?
How about justice for capturing all the NSA agents and leaders who are regularly commiting perjury, violating every right that is supposed to be sacred in the USA, and covering it all up with lies multiplied by lies?
How about justice for removing from the bench all the judges who say "What the NSA is doing has to be legal, because the government finds it useful!"
In other parts of the world, leaders have been assassinated for less.
Which operating system do you know of that hasn't been exploitable at some point by visiting a web page?
DOS.
Well, the stink from the fart probably knocked him out for a while, so it might have been only a few minutes of actual, you know...consciousness....
Google's is very well behaved by the way, so please don't spread FUD.
Yeah, well we all thought the NSA was well-behaved. Look how that turned out.
"We all"? Who's this "we all" of which you speak?
Do you mean, prior to Snowden, you thought the NSA was well behaved?
That's a little naive.
While I didn't realize the extent they've gone, I certainly never expected them to be squeaky clean, by any means.
But then again, I'm neither blind-government-trusting, nor American, either.
Anyone, anyone , who implicitly trusts their government is just begging for trouble.
"Why, those dirty pinkos!"
"We mustn't judge them by the colour of their feet, sire."
If you want privacy then do it the old fashion way and lie.
I do. There are several online services that think I was born at the North Pole on New Year's Day, to my proud parents, John and Jane Doe.
you can't trust ANYTHING that any......politician does ever again.
Huh? Since when did we trust anything that politicians do?
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones
