It's not April 1 any more, is it?

Masters of the Universe: We object to backdoors and weak encryption!

Government: Aw, that's cute. Here's some money, now shut up and behave.

Right, it is a huge difference. One achieved fame for being elected head of the Tories, and the other gained her fame honestly.

What's the UK going to do do enforce a "summons"?

Scotland Yard is too busy punishing bloggers and cartoonists for "hate speech", and both of their soldiers are already busy in Afghanistan.

They could always threaten to withhold all Tesco coupons, but Zuck's butler shops at Whole Foods.

Or maybe have an MI6 bot campaign spam-post swimsuit pictures of Teresa May to his personal timeline until he complies.

Engineers are the only talent the USA has to trade for decent NHL players.

The incentive is better beer for the engineers and sex without snow shoes for the hockey stars.

So is MM fishing for attention from Nokia or Linus Torvalds?

I'm betting on Linus. What is sexier than a raging, beer-fueled Finnish programmer?

Planet X is out there. Art Bell told me so.

Before he died. Or from beyond the grave. Hard top tell which.

Tess will find it. Elon Musk will explore it, and find Elvis at last.

I wonder if there are crop circles on Nibiru. Tess will tell.

Drat, time to feed the unicorns and mermaids again.

Anyone who allows IoT in their business deserves the consequences.

Really.

The only secure IoT devices are the ones you never install.

I misread the title at first glance. Some Freudian node in my addled old brain saw it as Google testing self-destructing Gmail.

If Gmail were to suddenly vanish, I would have to re-think my atheism.

Stop making sense. It upsets the narrative.

Bingo.

Pretty much anything related to non-user data transparency from any corporation, particularly social media platforms, will generate an "input out of range" error on any basic Bullshit Detector.

Bugger actual defense needs. The military-industrial gravy machine senses big $$$ in peddling an "AI Gap" to Congress.

I can just see Lockheed and Raytheon "partnering" with IBM, MIT, Alphabet, etc. to "deliver 21st-century AI technologies to our gallant warfighters".

While the idea of obfuscation-as-security has been around a long time, given the pervasive lack of data privacy, relax a little and have some fun with it. Large-scale data mining for profit and massive security breaches pretty much leave everyone who uses the internet wide-open to exploitation, so we might as well make a game of it.

I have four "identities" I use for various purposes, all fictitious to one extent of another. I feed them so much bullshit and chaff that pretty much any "profile" on me comes off as straight out of Lewis Carroll. The Mad Geezer meets the Cheshire Hacker.

Be creative. It's fun. Whole books could be written about ways to load up any given profile with conflicting and contradictory information.

You know it's working when you see ads for running shoes and wheelchairs at the same time.

It's what they do.

At least they're glaringly up front about it, unlike the US TLA's relying on phony FISA courts, hardware OEM back doors, and so on to accomplish the same thing.

Give the Devil his due.