Is this really true? (We could use a week without felonies instead, if you were exaggerating.) I'm sure people do sometimes commit crimes without any criminal intent, but at least one felony per day (or week) per person? And it has to be something that most people wouldn't think illegal, otherwise they'd at least try to avoid it doing it.

Glad that it works for your brother's family, but I'm not sure how a few webcams is an "automated home".

Why does the payload need admin privileges to encrypt your files? Unless your account only has read access to your data, but that would be very cumbersome.

Sort of funny considering there's a certain operating system from the United States that many around here would describe as "nasty unprotected malware" :-)

Isn't explorer.exe or any other file manager an app? Or a browser/wget/curl/netcat/whatever that lets you download that HTML file?

I'm surprised that this hasn't always been the case, as you seem to imply. Is this because average lifespans have gone up, and there just weren't enough old (over 70 I presume) people alive 100 years ago or so?

In my opinion it was just a little joke. Besides, isn't Easter the most important Christian holiday?

Yes, but what's disgusting about it? Maybe I'm doing it wrong...

Interesting that you mentally link porn accounts with disgusting. Makes one wonder just what kind of porn you're into.

That should be DPRK, of course. Serves me right trying to use fancy initialisms.

Would you really want to send your son or daughter to die in North Korea because crackers broke into a company's servers? Also I'm not really convinced yet that NPRK's military was behind the crime.

Even if they would be viewed as cowards, who is going to remember that when the next iPhone or whatever comes out? And I bet even fewer people will skip buying it because of this.

I suppose I misunderstood your first post I replied to. I thought you meant you wouldn't want to install updates because you don't trust Apple and I was curious why, in that case, would you trust OS X in the first place.

I don't use a Mac myself, so let's swap Microsoft in there instead. I think it's not entirely unlikely that they would be able to install updates without prompting me in any way, if it was in their interest. Usefulness of the system outweighs the likelihood of them screwing me over, hence I continue to run Windows for the time being.

Why is it nonsense? I don't think updates require significantly more trust in a vendor than using their operating system in the first place does. If they wanted to push in any way malicious updates, they could have built in a way to bypass the normal update mechanism altogether or hide it in a Trojan horse.

On the other hand, who do you think will stop buying their products? I doubt anyone can arrange a boycott on that scale, even if everything made in China is outlawed.