I don't know what your definition of "dirty" is, but there are going to be scenarios where you need your data cleaned.

Like the iPhone, every 2-3 years probably. More often if you want to be bleeding edge.

LOL. More likely they said "Hey we paid all this money to Mondaine for the swiss rail clock rights, let's make more use of it".

I disagree. The people who thought watches were primarily for telling the time gave up (in large part) on wearing them long ago, in favour of their smartphone. Those people never wanted something wrapped around their wrist to tell the time when their phone was good enough, and this won't win them back. The people who still wear watches just like watches, and those folks will think this Apple watch is crass. Why do I need to talk into my wrist for a reminder when I can just as well do it with my phone (which I have to be carrying anyway).

I wear a watch because I like it. I could care less if it has a date window, stopwatch, day, calendar, or whatever. I wear it because I like it, all those things are just gimmicks.

Most swiss watches I dare say, are not of the super expensive kind. What innovation do you want from a mechanical watch? It tells the time, that's it. When I buy a new watch (and I have many), I could care less about innovation.

LOL, true, but that watch is a heavy lump.

I don't think their expense is their allure. Watch people often like watches in all price ranges.

I don't think we should be taking advice about the potential success of the apple watch from someone who abhors iPhones.

A rainbow table might not be practical for you and I, but might be practical for the NSA. But as you say, it assumes you have the passwd hash table already. In the old days it was exposed in /etc/password, but that hasn't been the case in decades.

I don't doubt the NSA has been doing nefarious things since the 50s, but I suspect their more outlandish things like this have taken shape since 9/11.

Either it's sloppy work, or a devilishly clever band of Russian hackers. You choose.

Basically because he has a big ego. He thinks "Hey dudes, see if you can find this plane, losers". Go out in fame, or infame.

Investigate yes. But I dare say the number of planes not found after 2 months is pretty damned small.

An interesting question is whether a malicious pilot would have the ability to destroy the black box.

I'm not sure that they do have the choice of "not using the Linux code they don't own" to avoid following the GPL, because they *already* distributed it. That was an option before they went and distributed it, but now they've done it, I think they've burnt that bridge.