I would like to see it under ARM-64 too!

Since VMS was my first real operating system (MS-DOS doesn't count since it's a program loader rather than an OS) I see this as good news.

VMS is actually a lot easier to use for a complete beginner than *Nix, even though it has some quirks.

My experience is that by using large vendor systems like Oracle and SAP is just a good way to waste money without getting any benefits. Those systems are in general not very well designed, and the money paid is used for marketing, not application development.

That would only work if one of the end points are compromised, so by leaving out a third party CA you decrease the sensitive points from three to two. It of course requires the end point owners to have a correct key handling and key exchange, but that is no different from having a CA.

The only time a CA is useful is if the two communicating parts don't know each other, but in the matter of a bank the person is already a customer and therefore a key exchange can be done at a bank office.

This is only newsworthy because it was a big building with a single point of failure.

What we all can learn is to avoid single.points of failure in large systems.

I saw those as a wrap-up, not necessarily a cash-in.

They are still good to read. Especially the unforseen result of the laws of robotics causing alien worlds to be eradicated because the inhabitants weren't human. What if aliens have the same approach? Humans are then seen as beings of lesser value.

I would say that it is also a study on behavior patterns applicable to humans. When exposed to the unknown panic can occur.

Nightfall is a typical Science Fiction story that reflects sociology in a fictional setting - which means that the reader will have less prejudice of what's right and what's wrong.

No, but the CA can provide a certificate suitable for a man in the middle attack that is masking itself as the real server if the CA is compromised.

That's the weakness with the existing system of public certificate authorities. There are three points that can be compromised instead of two as soon as you have a public CA signing the certificates.

They get enough to be able to provide a man in the middle attack.

Assuming the CA can be trusted.

I'm not trusting the CAs that exist to not reveal key data to NSA or other organization.

For internal servers the companies often set up their own CA server and distribute the root cert to the clients, so only a few companies will be affected.

At least snail mail can serve as fuel for heating during the long winter nights.

So essentially Verizon tells you to share movies and music to hurt Netflix that way.

2% may be the desktop share for Linux, but when it comes to servers and handheld devices like Android it's a different story.

Possibly, but what I find more surprising is that someone was able to discover such a small crater. 80m isn't big relative to how big Siberia is. It must have been in someone's backyard.

Maybe it was just Ivan's still or meth lab that exploded.