Agreed. I used their Deco units for a few years for a whole-home mesh network. Plug them in, select a few config options in the app, job done.

Weren't these breaches achieved by stealing auth tokens from the AWS environment of a non-Salesforce third party? Seems unfair to call this a "Salesforce vulnerability".

How the Salesforce breaches unfolded: root causes identified

The article isn't clear on the proportion, but some of these products were pulled for not having FCC authorization confirming they operate within allowed radio frequency limits. The RF spectrum is a limited, shared resource and someone operating a noisy device is everyone's problem. It goes beyond just "buyer beware".

I'm agnostic on whether it's reasonable to bar products from certain companies on much vaguer national security grounds.

That's exactly what "gross negligence" means. It describes cases where someone exhibits a conscious and voluntary disregard for the need to take reasonable care, in a way that's likely to cause foreseeable harm.

That doesn't comport with other language in the document. Article 10.6:

So, when "measures taken to execute the detection order" (i.e., chat scanning technology) detect CSAM, the service provider needs to get in touch with Europol with their official report (including content, as referenced in section 12).

They also go into more details on the ways in which a provider may "become aware" of CSAM on their platform:

Where a "detection order" is the way in which the EU will mandate that a service provider deploy the chat scanning detection technologies. It seems clear that the legislation's intent is that the detection technologies alert the service provider of the spread of CSAM so that they can inform the authorities - not just to block it from being sent.

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I'm not a lawyer, and would be happy to be corrected by one, but that sure reads like they have to send the blocked content to the authorities.

What is there to "see through"? I'd be shocked if any organization large enough to have a PR/marketing department didn't have an automated search set up on Facebook, Twitter, and Google looking for mentions of their own name.

If you held meat to the same standard, requiring packaging to describe the living conditions of the animals involved and the industrial processes involved in turning them into the product, I think the veggie products would come out on top.

As a cold-storage backup presumably you need to do retrievals rarely if ever (until your data center burns down). At the ~$0.07/GB I see on the AWS website for transferring data out over the internet, it would have "only" cost them ~$70k to restore. That has to be cheap compared to the cost of whatever was lost.

Why watch "all" the polls? Suppress the vote in a few key states in a few key precincts where your opponent's supporters are clustered. Job done.

"I saw someone post something on Twitter"

I think this disregards the social aspect of consuming media. Game of Thrones, for example, wasn't a cultural phenomenon just because it was quality entertainment. It was also the fact that (seemingly) everyone was watching. You'd hear jokes about it on late night, talk to coworkers about it over the water cooler, etc. That's lost in the decentralized world you describe.

I think you're missing the point (the value proposition here (for those who value it) is that it's the data you've put onto Snapchat's social network, not 5 GB of cloud storage), but to humor the argument:

What happens if you lose the $10 drive or it fails? Do you have a resilient backup and business continuity strategies? If so, how much time and money are you spending on maintaining them?

Whenever someone says "the cloud is too expensive: I can roll my own solution for much less" it's rare that the homegrown solution is actually an apples-to-apples comparison with what you get with a cloud provider.

Will it?

According to the AI overlords the average American highway maintenance worker earns $50k/yr. Factor in the costs of providing healthcare/pensions and the fact that the robo truck isn't restricted to an 8hr workday, and I can easily imagine a $1M truck paying for itself in the lifespan of a piece of industrial equipment. Hell, with the unfortunate state of American healthcare costs, it might pay for itself if it prevents a single highway worker from needing to be hospitalized.

If a pregnant woman decides not to take Tylenol to bring down a high fever, that could certainly cause some harm.

One might come back and say that's a scenario where it is in fact "ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY" to take Tylenol, but if so, maybe the president should have included a bit more nuance in his communication with the public.