Most in upper management are incapable of learning due to limited intellectual capacity. It would be much simpler (and more fun) to mount a hostile takeover.

They should treat it as a free cloud backup service, and offer everybody back their old communications when requested.

Everything you mentioned is publicly available information, as it should be. Census data, highway routes, and weather forecasts can also be used in attack planning. It doesn't mean we should limit access to that information to government security forces.

Louisiana is one place I will not consider moving to.

And, for you grammar Nazis, Louisiana is one place to which I will not consider moving.

And, for you Cajuns, I ain't gonna go to loosiana no more.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers doesn't keep classified information on civilian projects online, do they? Electrical distribution control systems are not accessible over the internet, are they? It looks to me like someone, whether Chinese, Lebanese, or Portuguese, got some not-so-sensitive information from the Corps of Engineers site, and the U.S. government is using it in its publicity campaign to pass laws giving the government (gasp!) more control over the internet.

I agree. And I don't want to take my gloves off if it's cold. It would be devastating if the pesky rabbit escaped.
When I read the headline, I thought "smart" meant automatic targeting, not automatically disabling.

Latch onto Kim Dotcom's fiber.

If "scientists thought that pathogens could not reach drinking water wells sunk into deep, protected groundwater aquifers", why are all domestic wells required by law to be tested to ensure there are no pathogens in the well water?

Prude.

It was a media hype overload, somewhat like OS thrashing. It's much more efficient to wait a day or two and read the facts on Wikipedia.

I couldn't care less if they see my nekkid body. I JUST WANT TO KEEP MY SHOES ON!!!!

It seems that the ACLU is broadening its mission in order to garner headlines and cheap publicity. Cell phone security does not exactly come under the heading of "civil liberties."

The users choose, of course. (In the case of Microsoft, they beat the users into submission with a virtually unusable version of Windows occasionally.)

I think that is really funny! They declare the data free and then make an inept attempt to force people to pay for it. It's almost as bad as copyrighting public laws.

Hey, that's what I was going to say!

Why not mitigate a real threat, like public ignorance?