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Comment Re:Netgear vs. Snowden (Score 1) 26

I don't think any security services are daft enough to have actual backdoors now. They just look for vulnerabilities and then keep quiet about them.

So I'd be more worried about the mass bricking US made routers, world-wide. Do it as a false flag, pretending to be some teenage hacker. Give their own tech a nice boost too.

Comment Re:n/a (Score 1) 34

It's occasional mass outages for a short time, vs more frequent small outages and security issues.

Don't forget that Cloudflare handles a lot of the security for sites that use it. Not just DDOS protection, but things like user authentication and HTTPS.

Comment Re:n/a (Score 3, Interesting) 34

In this case centralization isn't a bad idea. Okay, occasionally there is a problem, but when there is a massive amount of resources are thrown at it, and it gets fixed quickly. Meanwhile their software is updated and constantly tested, so it's more secure and stable than most in-house efforts. It's their full time job, where as it's usually just the IT guy's background task when the company manages it themselves.

What matters is that there is still competition, to keep the market working properly, and that such services are properly regulated.

Comment Re:Government loans (Score 1) 65

Most of those loans were at least for construction projects that were either a) had a target of profitability, and b) provided jobs construction, etc.

We're talking about restarting something that was shutdown because it was economically not viable. The other loans you mention can be largely considered subsidies. That's okay when it is done for some sensible goal. This isn't sensible. This is attempting to restart a loss making venture and is insanely stupid.

Comment Re:Your tax dollars hard at work (Score 1) 65

It has a guarantee to protect taxpayers money. How could it possibly end up costing us billions?

If the guarantee was worth anything at all then the risk wouldn't need to be socialised by the government, it would be picked up by private investors. The government gave a loan to back the startup of something that had previously failed due to market economics. What guarantee can a failure provide?

Hey I have no money, I spent it all gambling. Lend me some, I pinke promise you won't loose it.

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