It's opportunist encryption, which is worse than worthless, as it gives a false sense of security. All you need to defeat this encryption is to interfere in any way with the encrypted connection, SMTP is required to deliver the mail in plain text.

GPG is not a real solution as even no one among technically minded people I know uses it for encryption. Signatures, yes, especially in Debian where around 50% of posts on mailining lists are signed, but, I recall exactly one case when a piece of sensitive data I received was GPG encrypted.

But. an easy solution does exist: DANE. It's the only way to make that opportunist encryption mandatory (servers are required to abort delivery in face of failure), and DNSSEC prevents DANE settings from being stripped away by an attacker. Obviously, you need stapled certificates rather than mere CA selection, but that's common sense. With that, server->server and possibly client->server communication is secure, and when IMAP is protected by DANE, server->client as well. Local storage remains in plain text which is an obvious problem, but at least that is outside the topic of this discussion.

The problem is, I'm not aware of any mail software that actually uses DANE yet :(

If I read this correctly, the bug is still entirely on Apple's side as it chews CPU whenever any program using that API is running.

Just "one nutcase"? Somehow that "one nutcase" has quite some clout in Timbuktu and Bamiyan.

Compared to pieces of paper that a politician can devaluate with a single signature if there's another budget issue (and there always is)? Bitcoin's advantage is a strictly limited ability to print money.

Yeah... I feel pity for vegetarians, for they don't know the deep carnivore pride you feel when your kitten brings home his first bird...

We stopped destruction at that point, because of an idea to turn the two halves into beer mats. Which, as expected, never happened.

I'd better beat the foul thing into tiny pieces to make sure it is dead.

Here's my dissertation on winmodems. Should apply well to windisks too, I guess.

In that case they'd be reversed in around half the cases.

It has. And fortunately you can disable that. Seriously, single-window sucks so bad only a Windows user (ie, without proper window management) could want it.

Actually, we're at Firefox 17, the next release after 10. You also see glorified trunk snapshots from time to time.

This is still better than Chrome which doesn't do releases at all.

Some of us actually use CapsLock to invert the case of part of the password. I'd scream loudly if you sabotaged it. I've had the displeasure of typing some code on a Chromebook, and the key being diverted for an useless function is a pain.

They do have a maintenance budget, but any penny spent doing actual maintenance is a penny your cronies can't pocket.

Ie, a bunch of bloodthirsty Arabs? Sorry but the Israelis have so far defended themselves against any wars, including one waged by all their neighbours the very next day after Israel was formed. That their holy book says all infidels must convert or die doesn't give them any moral high ground.

There's quite a lot of human rights abuses inside Israel's borders, yes. Hamas considers everyone else, including muslims who don't agree with it, to be sub-humans.

An organization that wants any other group wiped from the face of Earth deserves just that.

A page in the page cache is directly usable by any program; it might be at most not currently mapped by any running process.