Which is what the really clever criminals did even before Snowden.

a) They shouldn't have overdone the surveillance to an extent that made it neccessary to have a Snowden to restore protection of those who the three letter agencies are supposed to protect and

b) this is based on the fallacy that before Snowden, criminals did not know about the surveillance protocols. Well, obviously, SOME didn't know. But those criminals who managed to bribe or blackmail a someone on a Snowden-like position into sharing their Snowden-like knowledge wre never monitored by the GHCQ.

That's why for Euro-pallets, there is an exchange system in place: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

OK, so according to that so called "newspaper" (I read TFA there yesterday) 50% of dangerous items were not recognized during security screening. But even with this terrible performance, no related incidents have been reported. In other words: This shows that there isn't a real danger that this security theater is protecting us from.

Let's start a war!

Winifred Ames: Why Albania?

Conrad 'Connie' Brean: Why not?

Winifred Ames: What have they done to us?

Conrad 'Connie' Brean: What have they done FOR us? What do you know about them?

Winifred Ames: Nothing.

Conrad 'Connie' Brean: See? They keep to themselves. Shifty. Untrustable.

In that case, CALEA would effectively render end-to-end encryption illegal. So, IMHO, they should be hunted down by lawyers for either not complying with CELEA or for not offering what they advertise.

Indeed. But there's nothing that keeps the NSA from using the same interface, too. either by serving wiretap orders themselfs (decorated with a nice gag order) or by targetting the CELEA equipment.

Long ago for that AC to forget about it.

And in a related note: If we have to discuss if and how to avoid supporting law enforcement, something went really, really wrong.

What the heck would you need to impelemt scoring and risk assesment for a simple money transfer? That is what you have the trusted 3rd party for.

If I (Alice) want to transfer money to Bob, I instruct my bank to remove the sum from my account. (That's the step that needs to be authenticated, but not assessed by any credit score). Then my bank transfers that to the target bank. (I doubt credit score would help to safeguard that step and it should NOT be over public networks - if you can do an IP check at this step, something went wrong from the design phase)

And as a last step, they give the money to Bob (or his account) and I don't think either that for that it is neccessary or even helping, to check Bobs credit score or IP address. He is going to RECEIVE money.

Yes, things get a bit more complicated if you need Bob's small shop to trigger the money transaction from his customer Alice, but then again we don't need any checks of his credit history or his current dynamic IP address, but rather we need to check Alice's authentication.

The grey bearded nerds here may still remember the legend of yore about a company called lavabit and how they tried exactly that....

Well, at least according to the summary, he never spoke of "safe". He said "safest" Big difference.

And I'd even go further and say that he might be right. Unless I'd go completly offline, I can't afford half the brainpower and expertise that Google buys for their datacenter to keep my desktop machine clean and safe. (to be honest. I couldn't afford hiring a single person from their security department)

Well, they came in second...

http://gmailblog.blogspot.de/2...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

He usually will be competing not agains a person, but against the possible employer company whining that they need more H1-B Visas because they can't fill the position with domestic employees.

Uhm yes. Hans Reiser showed that first you do FOSS development, and THEN commit a felony... OK, bad jokes aside, his problem will be to find time between the three burger flipping jobs he has to to, to actually do something meaningful for any FOSS project.

I agree with the problem that Lawrence_bird noticed: a state deciding to NOT take all of your money is not exactly giving a "tax break"

But there is another problem: You don't need countries to actually GIVE a tax break: Unfair tax advantages might be created by simple differences between tax systems that are fair and balanced within themselves.

That held true for maybe the car companies of yore but does not help the economy if a) the relation between jobs created and revenue gets out of hands (just stick with the google example: we here have rather few engineers responsible for the ernings of one of the worlds biggest companies) and b) the jobs created aren't in the same country where the revenue is created.

I'm concerned about the Bing filter not working (or people maliciously manipulating their pages into being displayed as CC when Bing searches it) and then being sued. With the current clipart library, I knew it came with a licencse to be used.