Yes, and >100 NON hardened satellites in orbit today work only thanks to magic, right?

https://www.planet.com/

You know what else is stupid? You :)
Old hat NASA engineers have been repeating that same old story about hardening for years. They all said it cant work, will be unreliable, is a waste of time and money. All until Phonesat was tested and worked.
http://www.space.com/21036-spa...

Today there is over 100 NONhardened satellites in orbit
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/p...

They cost thousands instead of millions of dollars, and work just fine. You can listen to an interview with one of the founders/engineers here:
http://www.theamphour.com/220-...

Yep, I remember watching some Linux conference about upcoming hot new SMR tech (2 years ago?), and I think they said those drives are read-modify-write on every write, that is the price you have to pay for huge capacities.

They are targeting long term storage, and will be useless for desktop/server use.

umm, Sony was worse to begin with, whole reason they got hackled is because Sony is FUCKING EVIL!

They want you to power up devices so its easier to dump data without leaving a trace.

Recent iPhone encryption bypass (if the phone was powered up and manually locked) using USB connection comes to mind.

It was either that, or getting thrown out of China like Qualcomm. Intel was screwed no matter what, this way at least they get to slap a lot of intel inside stickers on cheap phones and getting piece of the market.

you mean they are just following orders?

except a lot of people use encryption every day right now and FCC doesnt do anything about it. AMBE is basically encryption, and only way to decrypt it is to pay DVSI or ICOM

> I'm the proud owner of 300+ games

you havent read Steam TOS have you?

you are the proud owner of a TEMPORARY license to use those games, steam borrowed you those games, steam owns them and can delete them from your hdd at any time

wasnt the GAO guy actively spying for the NSA during the investigation?
    hmmmm no, he worked for Germany's Defense Ministry, all right then ....

battery life was too long, intel will fix that

>We cannot use conventional techniques such as a gun barrel or gunpowder [on this scale]

this means they essentially made bulletproof vest for a LEGO figurine, or a green army men

> 2000mph by the gases produced by laser pulses rapidly evaporating a gold film

yep, it will work great next time someone wants to shoot a speck of DUST at you

so dangerous, and yet no accidents. Sounds like a PR campaign before another FAA power grab.

it was barely visible with naked eye, probably recorded by the same bastard that shot it down
gee, i wonder why people that shot pasanger plane didnt upload their home movie

no, that online DRM, like simcity