its a multiply-sourced denial of service.

ie, MS-DOS.

north korea failed the Genuine Advantage test and their WAN is in hobble-mode until they buy a non-hacked license key.

credibility of a US TLA?

hang on...

A HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAH

(wait, you were serious??)

at this point, I would not trust any US TLA as far as I could throw them. they are all rotton to the core (or is that, corp?).

they have their own sets of laws, their own agendas, cannot be monitored by the citizens, have private budgets that we can't see (entirely) and, again, they are all above the law. they convince themselves that they are fighting the good fight, but power corrupts and they have too much power to be trusted.

the fbi says this or says that- yeah, right. they say things for their own reasons. this is not to be confused with The Truth.

I wish this was not the case. it would be so nice if we could trust our own enforcers. but as we have seen over the last few decades, they are as trustworthy as the thieves and bandits they are supposedly trying to stop.

its at the point where I can't tell the bad guys from the really bad guys ;(

but I'll never take the fbi (or cia, or nsa) word at face value. its like a salesman: how do you tell they are lying? their lips are moving.

Security IS a profit center, because it's part and parcel of actually doing everything that generates profit.

go look up (learn!) what profit center really means. clearly, you don't know, and you should not be acting like you know, either.

profit center is when you DIRECTLY generate revenue. security only does that for security vendors (firewall boxes, etc). your security team is a COST.

it was all over the evening news

oh! so it must be true, then.

the evening news would not lie to us. they don't have an agenda. they don't keep 'in good' with the politicians and cops and judges and jailers and (and and and...). no, they report honestly and without fear. they expose bad actions of our government.

(wakes up).

wow, what a dream I just had.

all of your post assumes that cops play fair and by the rules.

so, lets stop right here and call a spade a spade. cops break laws AT WILL. there's a famous meme, "I'm going to kick your ass... and get away with it!" and its more true than false, these days.

even if you are innocent, they can 'drop' whatever they want on you and make it stick. they can claim 'you went for a gun and I feared for my life' and kill you. a dead man makes no lawsuits.

they can steal your money and say 'we THINK it may have been used for drug deals' and now its up to you to prove a negative. GLWT.

AFTER unions got torn apart, in the US, perhaps.

but in my grandfather's day (turn of the 1900's), they fought for better working conditions and this is where the 5-day work week came from, time and a half (or more!) for overtime and I remember my GF telling me that 'every 4 hours, they are required to let us eat'. even today, at my 'cushy IT job' I don't get a food break every 4 hours. not that I need it, but its a thing that we once had and lost due to 'those evil unions' (sigh).

so, conditions were horrible in the US, we fought to make them more human-like and we won.

then, we lost them ALL. pretty much all of it.

cops and other groups have unions and no one says a word about it. but if IT guys or factory guys want to have a union, its 'hey, why do you hate america' and shit like that.

if my GF was still alive, he'd be furious for the things he and his peers fought for and yet we let drift away over the years.

it would KILL the uber capitalism company known as sony to give ANYTHING away for free.

they'd go out of business first.

(well, lets all hope...)

but waiting for sony to do anything good for anyone BUT sony is like waiting for the 2nd coming of jesus. neither is gonna happen.

How is this insightful? What does "backdoor" have to do with it then? If anything with keys can be picked, then all encrypted communication is vulnerable and adding a backdoor would just be meaningless.

All communication has to be decryptable or it isn't communication. (How would one-way communication work? exactly like a write-only memory chip). So someone always has to have a key, but that doesn't always have to be the NSA or government or even Verizon.

ipv6 is not going to take over any time soon. adoption has taken 20 yrs now and its still 'not there' for many places.

IoT will use ipv6. but websites that are more than your personal site will always have access to ipv4.

uhm, regular old dotted quads (ip addrs) work fine and cannot be 'taken down' since they are not lookup based but topology based.

and even with ip alias and redirects, a dotted quad can be just about as good as a dns name. better, in some ways, since it cant' be faked like a name can, and does not require another fetch for the name->ipaddr lookup.

This has never been about whether the current U.S. government is trustworthy, but whether the future U.S. government is, and no one can ensure that. Would you trust promises from the Chinese government to always get warrants, or trust the quality of the warrants if they did? Governments are made from people and the people change. You may trust the U.S. government now, but you should not trust the U.S. government of the future further than necessary.

agreed on needing micropayments. I hate ads and I block them. but I'd happily pay in uPmts for sites I like.

it has just not happened. and not due to tech issues; its not a tech thing that stops this from being implemented.

if you point a camera or mic at any of us, sooner or later we'll all be guilty of some crime on the books.

its by-design, too. have so many laws that, if 'the man' wants to come after you, there is always a reason he can find.

THIS is why it should not be allowed. plus, well, its NOT the kind of world we would want to live in. we get the world we want, and do we (as a people, human beings) want to live in a world where this is allowed to happen?

we better stop this invasive spying shit. its already gone on more than it should. will we, as a people, have the wisdom and forsight to stop this before we truly become an orwellian society, in every literal sense of the word?

no data in any of those.

nice try, though. but they are all invalid.