Difference: The reference implementation is open source.

I see that you are attempting to make the troll 2.0 look stupid, by criticizing the very nature of trolling 2.0.

Trolling 2.0 is an attempt to herd a segment of the readership of the materials to be caught in an uncomfortable zone of cognitive dissonance. In this case, it is between their confirmation bias ( the bias is towards low level technologies) and their desire to not be associated with stupidity. This was poorly executed, but in an ideal case, a significant segment of the target would, for a brief moment, be highly inclined to accept and internalize the stupidity, then a painful moment of doubt is to occur, etc, etc, etc

So that's Google's master plan for Android dominance.

for each phone: id = secure_get_uuid() phone.flash(id) db.add(id)

But this was a beating for copyright infringement-- a clear case of interstate commerce.

10 year old equipment? No. But NT4 was released 15 years ago, and was expected to work on hardware considerably older than that. In the mid 90s, security was a joke. Every operating system had a plethora of unpatched, often public, remote root vulnerabilities.

The real question is, "Is there any good reason this was never changed?".

OpenBSD WAS more secure in-so-far as its default installation was and is very minimal, and somewhat security oriented. When this was compared to relatively bloated default installations of other distributions/operating systems, it was quite reasonable to consider OpenBSD more secure.
However, as the number of programmer hours on other systems continues to increase relative to OpenBSD, it is unlikely that OpenBSD is significantly more secure than some other modern operating systems (even in this biased criteria).

.... he was implying that perhaps 'cyberattacks' were the method by which sufficient wheel-schematics were acquired, not that it is immoral or odd that they would attempt to acquire such.

I have it right here:

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> But then I'm not sure that anything can truely be done "perfectly". Python.

Trolls will be trolls. The only correct response is to give them the minimal level of rights required by the relevant statutes, and to PLEASE AVOID FEEDING THE TROLLS.

False. The scale is discrete, therefore it will not necessarily always be possible to define a top 5% within reasonable margins of error.

>anyone who tells you otherwise is in to voodoo and black magic or trying to make some profit. Not true. Give me a budget of 30 million USD, and I can recover at least 10 sequential bits with 80% certainty.

Terrorist watchlist == reasonable suspicion (in theory, obviously this doesn't hold in practice) Therefore (with the flawed assumption assumed true) if the name is on terrorist watchlist, you have reasonable suspicion, and can apply that in your dealings with them.

It's a server used in the stampede cluster.