A redditor suggested that Uber was using a third-party library and the functions found may never be called at all. But looking into if they were ever actually used or not would get in the way of a good old fashioned witch hunt!

System UI is the application which controls the navigation bar (back, home, recent) and the status bar/notification shade.

The dialog for non-responsive applications is controlled by something else.

Legitimate AV software that will scan for free will also fix for free. You never see it scan but refuse to fix until you pay up unless it is a scam, AFAIK.

Any sane classified network should have an air gap. You would have to physically move data off the network to get it.

"The latest batch of high-performance Solid State Drives will last longer and perform better down the line in a Windows PC than a Mac PC!"

As I understand it, Tor hidden services are not accessed via exit nodes. Exit nodes are not needed as the destination can speak Tor.

If an "exploit" requires the user to manually give it complete access to the PC to work... it's not an exploit.

Fast food places near me use a "single line" system. When a spot opens the cashier announces "Can I help the next guest?" or otherwise greet you to let you know they're ready to take your order. No reason why that wouldn't work in a grocery store. I think that chain you were talking about was just doing it wrong.

Gmail catches so much spam that spam actually amuses me when it makes it through because it's so novel to actually see spam for once.

AFAIK DoD contractors are required to keep classified data on a separate network from unclassified data. Classified network should have no internet access. "Closed areas" are used to keep the networked machines physically separate. Set procedures are in place for moving data between the two networks. This sounds like Top Secret data would be travelling across the internet (likely there will be strict standards on VPNs to use and encryption and whatever).

You know Opera is based off of Chrome now, right?

It wasn't a pre-release Xbox One, it was off-the-shelf components that met Xbox One pre-release specs. However given the systems they hacked, what they have been charged with, and why they might have wanted to assemble one, it wouldn't surprise me if they loaded it with Xbox One development kit software.

It seems most of these issues with people being in dangerous or emergency situations because their car won't start could be easily solved thanks to 911. For the specific case of being in a bad neighborhood, if there isn't an immediate threat, call a taxi instead.

For that matter, assume the school always has full remote access to the hardware they issue to the students. Same reasoning. Don't log into personal accounts from those devices or do anything personal on them. Remember the case of the school that issued laptops to students only to spy on them with the webcams... hopefully nothing like that will happen to you, but at the same time it's prudent to keep anything the school has access to cleanly separated from your child's personal life.

If the school is going to have access to this notebook, assume from day 1 they are going to use it to log onto your child's account and monitor it, thus you should encourage your child to only use it for school activity and not for any personal activity. Schools have done worse.