"The web portion is easy, we'll get the intern to do it in a couple of weeks..."

Agreed - I forgot that you can submit that information as part of your last tax return as well. From memory, there is a separate form for it as well, in case you leave your job on-or-before the financial year end date, but don't decide to leave the country until after you've submitted the previous year's tax return, and you don't have any income in this financial year.

But yeah, in the age-1 case you're talking about, you probably wouldn't even have a tax file number anyway...

You need slightly more understanding to go with your reading:

"Authentication" means "verification that you are talking to who you think you are talking to".

In SSH, before you send your authentication information to the server (for it to verify that it is talking to you), the server first sends it's own public key, and specific message signature with the corresponding private key. Your client checks if the public key is already known as belonging to the server (by checking known_hosts), and if not, asks if you are willing to trust the key. If you say yes, the client computes the same specific message, checks if the signature sent matches the message and public key. If this succeeds, then your client has successfully authenticated the server (verified that it is right server), and can trust that it is not a "man-in-the-middle" trying to steal your password.

After this, your client sends your authentication information to the server, and the server looks up your password in the password database, or verifies your public key, or whatever, to check your info. If this succeds, the server has authenticated your client, (verifed that your client is under your control), and can trust your client to run commands under your user id.

Not quite nothing: IIRC, you still have to file one document, once, telling the tax office that you've gone overseas, and whether it's permanent or when you're coming back.

Although, in hindsight - you've already authenticated the server, so you are going to treat it as a trusted party anyway...

Agreed - this makes sense if you want to display a message to the user: "The server is advertising updated host keys via the trusted channel. Do you want to add them to your local host key list?"; but automatically replacing them without prompting seems overeager...

When will people learn?

Biometrics replace usernames, not passwords/PINs...

... but anybody with a need to drive could pay the $20/gallon to drive...

That's quite a big assumption that everyone who supports the emergency surge pricing idea is making - that those who need the service will be able to afford the hugely-inflated price.

At the very least, large companies need to anticipate short-term stability, which is I think what the quote was getting at.

A small company, for which a day's takings in Bitcoin is only a fraction of the day's Bitcoin-to-local exchange volume can easily cash out immediately, and so has no need to have an expectation of long-term or short-term stability.

A large company typically cannot convert a large amount of Bitcoins to local currency instantaneously without destabilising the exchange rate, so they need to have an expectation of short-term (e.g. month-long) stability in order to manage the transaction volume against the local exchange markets.

Making (largish) loans in a currency implies expectation of decade-long stability.

Also, for a tech site, this lack of comprehension is offensive:

may be remotely exploitable without authentication and can possibly be exploited over a network without the need for a username and password

The two halves of this sentence say exactly the same thing, but present it as two statements.

Iâ(TM)ll wait for something from DPReview.

Why wait?

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He never admits that the NSA actually engineered the backdoor into the algorithm, he only states that he regrets supporting the algorithm after other people pointed out it was backdoored.

It's entirely possible that they did not engineer the backdoor - that might have come from the original creator.

It's further possible (although I would hope it's not the case) that they did not find the backdoor before it was publicly disclosed.

Either way, they should have stopped endorsing the algorithm as soon as they knew it was weak, whether that was at public disclosure or earlier.

That they continued to claim it was secure after it was publicly known to be weak is a complete failure on their part, and they are DEFINITELY culpable for that.

We BELIEVE that they probably put it there, in which case, they're even more culpable, but we don't know that for certain...

On the one hand, I agree - I know lots of people our age who don't know how to change their oil or oil filter.

On the other hand, I know many people of all ages (from 16 through 70) who don't know how to do that.

At a guess, I'd average it at about 10% in any age group who could. I'm one of the few my age; my dad is one of the few his age. Only two of my uncles or aunts could; only a couple of my cousins. A few of my friends can, but that's only because I hung out with a bunch of motorheads when I was younger...