This is a general problem with devices that are "paired". How do you securely establish the initial connection, when neither side knows anything about the other?

The secure solutions involve some shared secret between the two devices. This requires a secure transmission path between the devices, such as typing in a generated key (like a WPA2 key) or physically carrying a crypto key carrier to each device (this is how serious cryptosystems work).

Semi-secure systems involve things like creating a short period of temporary vulnerability (as with Bluetooth pairing). There's a scheme for sharing between cellphones where you bump the phones together, and they both sense the deceleration at close to the same time.

Apple's reputation management service is reacting faster now. It used to take them an hour to mod criticism down. Now it only takes 15 minutes. Who are they using?

This may be the backdoor known as DROPOUTJEEP, which was described in some Snowden-leaked documents last year.

Looks like Apple sold out, put in a backdoor, and then lied about it.

I'm fine with http. I'm just stating my opinion. If that is grounds to lock me up, you can as well lock me up for then I'm in a prison already.

Would July 14th be ok?

The breeze around your neck that you feel shouldn't worry you...

That's what strong encryption is for.

The strange thing is that I trust the Russkies more by now than I trust the US...

If someone told me that 30 years ago...

Considering who owns Mega, I wouldn't trust it further than I can throw that blob.

With MJ? Yeah. Sure. MDMA? Umm... maybe. Crack? No effin' way!

People who want to enjoy drugs are not necessarily insane...

It's not the human *touch* that people crave in a complicated interaction with a system. It's human *versatility*.

Thus more personnel does no good, if those personnel are rigidly controlled, lack information to advise or authority to act. The fact that they're also expected to be jolly and upbeat as they follow their rigid and unyielding rules only turns the interaction with them into a travesty of a social interaction.

What would work better is a well-designed check-in system that handles routine situations nearly all the time, along with a few personnel who have the training and authority to solve any passenger problems that come up.

I'm pretty sure birth control exists.

Well, to his credit, he was a pretty good actor. It's not his fault that the writers turned his character into an annoying little self-righteous, one dimensional sphincter.

To run a C64 emulator on a PC emulator on a Mac emulation on an Amiga of course. Duh.

Hand in your geek card on your way out.

I'm your shareholder. And I have a zero tolerance for drunk bozos who drive the company into the ground that I own.

Pack your shit and jump out the window. Without the usual parachute.

That's something that nobody ever managed to answer me: What makes you think that a lot of people will start doing a drug just because it's legal. Why would someone go "Gee, it's Tuesday and colder than outside, I'm gonna try Crack"?

Would you?

Then why do you think others would?