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.

I'm not bothering anyone. I don't even know them. That doesn't mean I will agree with them or that the actions aren't hypocritical.

If my response is what you're talking about then you did a poor job of explaining what you're talking about. Or a poor job of reading my response. Your and my point was fundamentally different.

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.

I mean it matters, not that there is good competition. Cloudflare is rather dominant.

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.

The only laptops I'd consider to have even half decent security are Lenovo ones, and of course Lenovo is a Chinese company.

You're implying the end result will be something of quality from Apple. Given the state of Siri I feel like Apple "shipping garbage" would have been a signifikant improvement over their status quo.

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.

A simple environmental regulation could help with that. Why should the government provide a loan in a profit making venture?

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.

aren't.

Siri has been one of the weakest assistants for many years now, and given that they usually just ship half finished software (Apple Maps comes to mind), I'm surprised they were able to resist. Maybe there is another reason, like it kills the battery.

It's interesting that there seems to be more paranoia over fears that the Chinese government may possibly have backdoors in network gear, than there is over US companies that we know for a fact have NSA backdoors in their network gear.

Your job probably has a lot of weak passwords. Humans can remember a small handful of semi-decent ones. Password managers are the way to go.