It's just a stupid as the US response taking out and replacing every part of every computer and network that Snowden accessed.

I mean, really - the CAT-5? Come on. Just a stupid excuse for work and so that they can claim "Oh he did millions of $$ damages, see we had to replace everything including a new coat of paint on the data center".

Absolute tripe.

It is to lose; all the gov't needs to do is recite those magic words "National Security", and they can do pretty much whatever they want. Who can stop them?

Yeah, but at least it won't be starring fucking Ricky Gervais!

Yay! I've been APK'ed!!

Thanks, glad to see you're not dead. ;)

It does make me feel a bit safer. It tells me the web site publisher cares enough to manage the ad content, and to me at least that strikes me as having less of a chance for someone to slip a turd in the punchbowl. The ads were probably reviewed and/or vetted by the site that's carrying them, and even might be, *gasp* relevant! Most of the ads I see carried by the hosting site are not obnoxious and since they are even almost (usually) relevant, I rarely need to block them.

Which is good, because it does make the ads a bit harder to block since they come from the same domain as the main web content. At least I know if I do get some kind of malware, etc. the origin is better known and the blame can be cast in the right direction.

Yeah! I miss him.

From what I read back in the day, he's probably a quivering puddle of jello having his paranoid delusions of being persecuted by trolls take over his psyche completely.

But like the Goatse guy, I do miss him...

Eventually, enough of those "leeches" are going to say "Fuck you and your obnoxious content" when they can get it at a dozen other sites, and you go out of business. Well done, sir!

I wish people who actively choose to comment on a thing would take a moment to acquire the most basic familiarity with that thing.

You MUST be new here...

I absolutely hate that shit, you go to a site and it renders, then goes dark because some fucking scrip takes over and tries to force some card on me or some shit. Fuck them. Big time. I see that shit, I'm outta there. Period.

Or if they want their families let go upon their return...

The more things change, the more they SUCK.

- Butthead

Yeah, except your Cisco-and-NSA-compromised router with the "if pktaddress=nsa.gov then allow" rule hidden and permanently on will just pass it and not log or tell you anything... As a plus, your Microsoft-and-NSA-compromised systools won't show the traffic, either.

This is obviously nonsense to you and me, but now the NSA thinks this is a viable vector! Imagine all the billions of tax $$ they will now waste researching and trying to crack it!

This is what we need - more crackpot theories of infection/subterfuge vectors to keep 'em busy.

Yes, they do. They use hardware acquisition modules (A/D) then use windows apps and touchscreens for the UI so response time is not important. These things cost $20,000.00 or so, give or take $10K.

Oh, I don't know, who calculates an extra four hours to get through the security theater at the airports?

Twelve years ago, THAT would have been a joke.