Because people don't know anything about it, GM foods are safe? Is that the message?

That's akin to "Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"

Not to mention that they are bred only for one reason, to be hunted FOR SPORT! End that madness, now!

Well, yes, but what other purpose do politicians serve?

Future?

To give something and demand nothing in return? That's just so Un-American!

Well, there is a way. But my lawyer said it's still illegal. And it's still likely that someone would keep me from doing it forcefully.

I'll just wait 'til at least the latter doesn't apply anymore.

Why the bickering about whether it's man made or natural? I honestly don't want to resolve the question on whether someone set my house on fire or whether lightning hit it while it's still burning, first I want it extinguished, then we can find out what caused it!

Wait, there's a left now in US politics? When did that happen?

So Crimson Tide rather than Scorpion?

Which one isn't? Even though I'd debate the intelligence of some agencies, but the first part?

Hmm... well, when you ignore the definition of democracy and use the good ol' school metric of "grading by average"... They might even get away with a C-

It's an affront to common sense to put security as an afterthought on top of another protocol instead of making it an intrinsic part of the protocol. But that's what you get when you use ancient technology (and yes, TCP is ancient by computer standards) and simply refuse to accept that it is necessary to invest into it.

But security does not sell. Only now people finally start to slowly catch on and realize that there might be a reason for security. They still don't know jack about it. They only know they "kinda wanna be protected". And that's what HTTPS and OpenSSL offers. It looks secure, Joe Randomsurfer doesn't understand jack and the whole security community will certainly not stand up and admit that it's all ... well, we can't really say it's insecure but ... well, I wouldn't bet my job on it either.

The problem with the whole shit is that it is very, very hard to prove without a doubt that something is insecure when it's not blatantly so. And OpenSSL is not blatantly insecure. It doesn't have the gaping "dude, that's fucked up" holes. When you look through the past year, from heartbleet to POODLE, you'll notice that ... ok, heartbleet was a blunder and a half, but POODLE is by no means something you will instantly understand without quite a bit of understanding of the whole security process behind it and even then it may take a while to wrap your head around it.

We're heading into the area of chances and probabilities. And I do predict that we'll see a lot more of this, attacks where it's not clean cut and "easy" to end up with a way to break security, but we will find that systems we thought to need 10^DAMN_LOT tries to brute force only need 10^VERY_LITTLE, because of flaws in the implementation or even the algorithm itself, where it becomes known that most of the "possible" keys were in fact impossible.

That's what I'd expect from the next few years. And I kinda fear that we will find out more than we'd want to know.

A site where I'm supposed to get the core of my security from? If this doesn't need some way to ensure that I really connect with it instead of an intercepting mitm that injects its own version, what does?

This can be beneficial, unless house prices are as inflated as they are now. We're at the point where you'd have to rent for over 30 years now to break even.

Damn straight. Why all the reporting when Obama speaks about the budget? It's just a black guy saying he's broke.