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Comment Re:Why (Score 1) 314

Here, in the Netherlands, all people drink tap water, except when in restaurants. This of course has to do with the fact you can charge 2 euro for a glass of tap water while people will feel ripped off if you charge that for a glass of tap water. There are movements going on to persuade bars, restaurants to also serve tap water for environmental reasons. Bottled water is a huge waste of resources (in countries where the tap water is as good or better as bottled water).

By the way, my tap water, which is pumped out of the ground about 2 km from here, contains 0.12 mg/l fluoride (according to the water company).

Comment Re:Nation uses malware to spy on ISP Customers... (Score 1) 143

Not sure how security firms conclude nation states must be behind some complex malware. It could also be a corporation. It could also be a criminal gang. It could also be some lone programmer or group of programmers doing this in their own time in order to sell the software or their services to criminals or governments. Most software is not made by governments (actually, can't think of any software) and whenever they try, they usually fail.

Comment Re:LOL (Score 1) 76

I'm not saying there are no hack attempts coming from Chinese IP-addresses, but the proof that this is "state operated hacking" is thin or non-existent. I wonder why all the headlines always talk about China. Is there no problem with cybercriminals from Russia, Ukraine, or even from the USA? Doesn't all economic espionage go both ways? This China bashing looks like a media campaign to create a new big bad cyber enemy to distract from actual problems (like lack of NOAA funding), to get new privacy-destroying legislation to "secure the homeland" passed, to get funding for NSA, to get good deals for government contractors. Maybe I'm just paranoid...

Meanwhile the US government spends billions of tax money to employ the smartest hackers they can find. If they all would be employed to create secure software, secure networks, find and fix leaks in existing software, there would be no hacking problem. But somehow this is not a priority. If only one NSA guy was employed at NOAA to make sure their web servers are patched and hardened, this would not have happened. There will always people trying to hack your systems, no matter how hard you scream it's unfair.

Comment Real damage (Score 1) 76

From the article:

The impact of the hack was real: Scientists at Atmospheric and Environmental Research in Lexington, Massachusetts were unable to send a preliminary report about weather patterns to traders and investors earlier this year.

So some traders did not bring an umbrella and got wet walking from their BMW to their office? Why can't they look out of the window like everybody else?

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