They shouldn't need to expose full filesystem I/O for a remote wipe. They should only need to expose a locked up command that triggers the wipe within the local OS.

Either this is a back door, or they are the worst software engineers ever.

She's a Senator. Her district is the entire State of California, which hasn't been gerrymandered since 9 September 1850.

Technically, he wasn't under oath.

Most of the time they aren't actually sworn in, unless the committee is on the warpath. If they swear you in, then you're in for a bruising.

No, she didn't.

Blowing hot air on the Senate floor during the absence of a quorum isn't "going nuclear" - it's blowing hot air in order to generate headlines.

She's the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Going nuclear would be issuing Congressional subpoenas to Agency officials to be sworn in and testify in front of her committee in open hearings, which she has complete power to do. But, you don't do that unless you have a little thing called "evidence" - doing so would just make her look like even more of a complete jackass, if that's even possible.

Anyone who was idiot enough to vote for this woman yet again gets exactly what they deserve. Unfortunately, they also afflicted those of us outside of California with this bullshit.

Thanks again, California!

So all of a sudden it is sane to physically harm, maim, or kill people with political views that differ from your own?

I guess I'm glad the world isn't subject to your view of sanity, because you and your post (and the ideas behind it) only add to the problem.

If she had any evidence, she'd be hauling them in front of her committee by power of subpoena. She just happens to be the chairwoman of the Permanent Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. She could have them subpoena'd and sworn in to testify under pains of perjury within the week.

She has no evidence, so she's making noise in a floor speech. Not surprising for one of the biggest blowhards inside the beltway.

That was a fantastic book, and one of his assertions that should really be discussed is how the current administration found the "enhanced interrogation" program so repugnant, yet has no problem blowing up people with drones whether non-targets are hit with the missile or not.

Yeah, "walling" someone is far worse than collapsing a building on them.

The problem is, she only wants that freedom for her, her committee members, her aides, and her cronies.

And by "life" you mean "not at all" because of the DRM-free music sales they've been doing since 2009?

Wait, a crap broken-by-design DRM scheme that completely relied on security by obscurity has been cracked before fully implemented; and cracked in an irreparable fashion?

Just like every DRM scheme that has preceded it. And likely every scheme that succeeds it.

I think I've got an old DVD5 copy of a ~3 hour movie that did have an intermission / disc flip due to the capacity constraints at the time, since the Hollywood distributor was too fucking cheap to use a multi-layer DVD back in the day. This was in like 1999 in the golden age of DVD.

It's like when we used to do a disaster recovery test - the business didn't like the idea of buying a tape library for the DR site that would sit there gathering dust, so when we did a quarterly test, we always had a "tape monkey" on the team who would sit there jamming tapes into the LTO drives for hours on end.

Well, it can be, somewhat. You can find SAS-attached LTO-4 drives for around $200, the tapes are around $20 and can carry 800GB before compression. Granted, you have to have a SAS controller, but you can throw one of those to the bill of materials for $50.

So, $250 for the solution, and call it $20 per TB with low compression for tapes. It's not ideal, but it's way better than optical for having a complete backup set.

One of the biggest concerns with archival storage or incremental backup, is the throughput in writing to the media. Not too long ago one of our datacenter tape libraries was writing to tapes 22 out of 24 hours in a day until we added another drive into the robot. All the servers would back up to a hard disk pool at their appointed time, and then the backup server would bleed that scratch space out to tape via fiber channel over the course of the day.

This, of course, included tapes written in duplicate for off-site storage.