Why on earth does it mean that someone is lying? Everyone researching this is working on limited data that is changing every day.

Don't blame scientists, you're just bad at interpreting scientific news.

So you want to return to normal, but are going to spread the virus as much as you can by resuming normal life?

The way to return to normalcy is to end the pandemic by following all the guidelines, not just the ones you like.

I know it sucks, but reality doesn't care about how much coronavirus is inconveniencing you.

The problem is we don't know what the long term consequences of covid are, vaccinated or not. Ever heard of shingles?

Then there's this: https://news.sky.com/story/cov...

Nope.

It is still completely possible for Google to use hashed passwords to authenticate users and only "save" the plain password in a "write only" file (text or separate database) with the unhashed passwords...

That's a distinction without a difference. It is absurd to keep a hash if you are required to keep the plain text. In reality this would mean encrypting the password, but it still comes down to eliminating hashing.

Is the software that does this fancy HTTPS interception and fake SSL cert generation typically off-the-shelf, or is it simple enough that companies write it themselves? If off-the-shelf, what this type of software be called?

How does it decrypt the traffic? It can't; only the parties in the SSL handshaking can do that, and that is the user's browser and the end server with its certificate.

Other posts on this thread detail how this is possible: You work for company X and go to https://bank.com./ Company X creates a Certificate Authority SSL certificate and installs it on all browsers. When you go to https://bank.com/ the proxy intercepts and pretends to be bank.com by generating a new server certificate for bank.com and talking to your browser as if it were bank.com. Since your browser trusts Company X's CA cert, it also trusts the fake cert created by the CA cert.

This is only possible if you are forced to use a browser with that CA cert installed, and the company has a proxy or other software/hardware that can essentially do a Man In The Middle attack.

Interesting. So this turns their proxy into a Man-In-The-Middle-Attack by faking the SSL certificate of the server you are trying to connect?

"The warnings were stark and issued repeatedly as far back as 1972: If the cooling systems ever failed at a Mark 1 nuclear reactor, the primary containment vessel surrounding the reactor would probably burst as the fuel rods inside overheated. Dangerous radiation would spew into the environment."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16contain.html?hp

An unprecedented force of nature happened, and now over a hundred thousand lives are at risk.

How exactly would he have been charged of a physical, violent crime by posting images?

North Korea has nukes. Iran is clearly trying to get them. How are they not a threat that would merit deterrent?

If you say it's ok for mobile carriers to restrict apps on cell phones, then you implicitly say it's ok for Comcast to dictate what you can have on your PC.

This is another reason why iOS and Apple's ridiculous idea that they can tell you what you can do with your property is a horrible precedent: it's my device, not yours.

I'm not sure how SSL protects you from a key logger.

This is so easy to defeat with a simple regular expression in your spam filter. I doubt spammers will continue with this tactic for long.

Simple logic was thrown out of the window by quantum physics. What makes you think the universe really does operate on a consistent set of physical laws? That's how Newtonian physics was thought to work too.