Or will those be robots controlled remotely from India or China too?
Ah -- if you're in IT -- perhaps a better idea is to be the US guy in an offshore-IT-company.
More seriously -- be your own boss. Start a company and you choose if/when you offshore your own job.
That's not a security move
It's also not outside the jurisdiction of the NSA.
Recall that the NSA is a DoD sub-agency --- so is quite restriced from spying on US Citizens inside the US. However DoD intel agencies are much more free to spy on international -- in fact, it's their main job.
It seems to me this moves it INSIDE the jurisdiction of the NSA.
Identity fraud, or more simply, bank fraud.
for congress
The whole thing is silly because it's re-directing the focus to a tiny subset of some archaic historical communication system (phone call metadata).
It's like saying that they shouldn't get to make maps of smoke signal fire pit locations.
This is all just to distract people from their bulk collection of internet communications; and giving politicians an opportunity to say "see, I'm tough on privacy" without actually accomplishing anything significant.
Yes. The recruiters who troll LinkedIn must just search for one specific skill and spam everyone who has it. I always get offers for jobs I'm either not qualified for or would never willingly do.
Last year I realized that I'd never changed my LinkedIn job profile info to "not interested" after starting my new job a year earlier. I'd been getting a lot of pings from recruiters, and I thought that might discourage them. Nope. Saying I wasn't interested made the recruiters even more interested in me!
Which would be great if any of them had a job better than my current one, but they never do. Everything is more boring work I'm less qualified for, for less pay.
It was horrible. I did a really crappy job.
Sadly, you were probably better than the guy before you and the guy after you.
I venture to say that just because you realized you were doing a bad job, you were already doing a better job than the vast majority of managers (especially ones who think of themselves as "good").
Skype help?
Perhaps Microsoft is paying them co-marketing dollars for doing positive PR for Skype? Maybe that's his great vision on saving the company.
should be restricted to communicate only with trusted devices
Sounds like a good policy anyway.
McAfee, Norton, Oracle (that damn Ask toolbar), HP Support Assistant, Razer mice, Skype.
Heck, it seems most Windows software has a "malware" buisness model these days.
"We're sorry we've solve you shitty products but will replace it at our expense" is actually doing something.
The ideal response in my mind would be: "We're sorry - so here's how to unlock the boot-loader and here are third-party open source firmware providers that we tested for you."
We don't want American spy agencies listening to our https traffic either. Just because Alice is shooting at me, it doesn't suddenly make it OK for Bob to stab me too.
This is an attack against the SSL trust model. A CA knowingly created a rogue certificate for malicious purposes. This wasn't an accident. A Diginotar type response would not be inappropriate.
I'm sticking to really free stuff now.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
