Data security classically was: you keep your data in a mainframe, and give people only terminals.

Then it was: You give people PCs, but put gum in the USB slots.

These days that's hard to do because motherboards want keyboards and mice to be USB.

Not to mention laptops. And in some companies (like Nokia US), it's all laptops all the time. And mobile (i.e., no) offices.

In such a scenario, how do you protect against an employee who wants to cp the entire database (design, products, customers, whatever)? Or other documents?

Maybe this should be an Ask Slashdot.

You mean like Google makes money off of
"infringing copyright law"?

Very important point.

Seems these days the news just tars someone as "consorting with illegal copiers", and everybody goes, Oh noes!

Exactly how clean does a dollar have to be before you accept it? How far do you have to go with a purity test? And how would that impact the ability of a lot people to even get basic services (even food)?

Yeah, he does.

He's the one that appointed some MAFIAA lawyer to be head of the "copyright police".

He did that because Hollywood wants that, and Hollywood gives him $$.

So he doesn't care for him (in the sense that Slashdotters don't care for SCO). But he does care that maximum punishment be inflicted upon unauthorized duplicators.

Took the words out of my mouth (hey, wait, are you Siri?!)

Do you have any more information or links regarding this backdoor?

I had always thought it was bad to prevent water from returning to the sea, as in:

-damming it up
-sucking it out of rivers before the river reaches the sea

It seemed to me that that would be upsetting ecological balances.

But now this seems to contradict that.

Actually, now that I think about it, it makes sense. The water from underground aquifers shouldn't to the ocean. It should go back into the ground.

This is one of those weird anti-environmental = environmental things (like some people who believe in AGW also now believe in nuclear as a solution).

>Second, Firefox's community-developed OSS deserves more trust than Chrome's corporate-developed closed/semi-open source.

I'm with you on that at a gut level. I was there during the whole Get Firefox, "we're gonna change the world" thing. I stuck it out for a long time. I just couldn't abide by the thousand papercuts of slowness anymore, and that's when I had to bolt.

Wait, gstreamer is obsolete?

I thought just yesterday it was the new hotness.

It was supposed to be the new a/v system that Ubuntu was building itself around.

Actually, the reason Oracle is suing Google is because cheated Sun out of a few million in licensing fees.

Sun's model was a highly generous 'free on the desktop, pay on mobile' model.

Google was too niggardly to pay even a few million to nice Sun. So now they're facing mean Oracle.

I'm not talking about what Google was "required" legally to do. I'm talking about "the right thing", as in you or me chipping in a few dollars to an open source project that I might have benefited from professionally. A few million was nothing for Google.

And, yeah, now Oracle's lawyers have come up with dumb arguments, but don't forget how Google's cheapness led to the demise of Sun.