Indicates to me that the docs were put together by outside contractor people that were not familiar with the normal abbreviations.

And based on the quality ot these docs and waste of paper, that fits.

You're hired.

That is some of the clearest well thought out bullshit I've read here is some time, well since reading Cold Fjord above.

Obviously, your programmers deserve a raise too as it is clear the the programmers of Cold Fjord basically have just taken Eliza and put some lipstick on it[0].

[0] - as evidenced by the level of reading comprehension displayed

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Should not take long. As soon as the new @N tweets, the NSA has the data, and they can pass it on to the FBI. Which is why this entire story is suspect to begin with.

Security theatre. It will help with privacy from the perspective of not giving away lots of info to a particular app maker, but it will do nothing to stop what NSA/GCHQ is doing.

Even if you could setup a VM-like environment, you are wasting your time. First, you can't hack the 2nd cpu in the phone, which is the one that does the cell-tower comms, and how the backdoors can be loaded into the phone, and secondly, they don't really need to do the backdoor route because your data traffic is what reveals most of the info they are looking for. The only way to secure a cell phone is to place it in a faraday cage, embedded in concrete, and deep-sixed in the ocean.

Red spore duststorms anyone?

Unless malware is declining these days.

But who are the other three?

Ask yourself this: How many ad farms are really NSA operations?

Spot on. You left out the insurance scam companies.

Sounds like a threat, like he knows there will be an attack. Perhaps he is correct, because he has inside info.

Agree with your main points. However, I would not call how we have arrived here a mistake. It is just the result of doing the wholesale conversion from 32 bit to 64 bit without considering performance impact, especially at the cache level. Premature optimization is the root of all evil, no?

99% of the public is not even aware of a what a criss-cross directory is and how it can be used or abused.

Well, when you use Windows, it probably really doesn't matter what kind of security policies you have since you are using proven insecure systems in the first place!