It would be nice to think that Apple was somehow concerned with users privacy but the evidence is to the contrary as Snowden showed they are in it for the money. The information and access the feds are looking for is something they want to be reimbursed for. Usage data and access is seen as the next big thing by everyone in tech which is why they are all getting into the act.

One wonders if this same professor is making sure his dalliances with the throttle are censored out. It would be rich if this idiot forces the town to place a speedcam and he became one of its earliest victims.

The Neo Con shuffle 1. Use quid-pro quo with connections to get into the board or at least an executive gig at a tech company. 2. Outsource as much as possible to (incompetent) head shops. 3. Layoff everybody you can. 4. Reap the rewards!, pay yourself and other executives/board members huge bonuses! 5. As the company begins to sink see step 1.

I suppose OZ will next ban nylon chopping blocks on there way to banning fire.

Most of the time philanthropy is a good thing, money goes to where it is needed. Since the 90's some of it is about tax payer funding through tax deductions and break granted to wealthy doners who use their philanthropy to influence and many case outright control an industry or market.

They will not be software engineers they will be asking folks if the want fires with that. One of the many fails with outsourcing and H1B is that after destroying an industry the visa people can go home and outsource slave shops can just lay off. Regardless, the cost of living will make sure they kill off any interest inworking in an industry they target in the US.

Look out, M$ is firing in the US and EU and hiring in Vietnam and India or anywhere else where employees can be had fora bag o' beans.

Google wants to sell us your sploits now?

Must be Loki's doing?

BillWG in his greed is trying to create a self fulfilling prophecy. Look at the state of CS at US universities. CS has gone from being a major pillar of many universities back to nothing but a math curiosity. Who would want to spend 60k on getting a degree so you could struggle against some foreign worker with made up credentials to be paid less then most executive assistants. If the politicians don't do anything about the visa abuse and rein in outsourcing you can kiss IT goodbye in the US.

The wages are substandard in conext with the cost of living in the US but not so much in India, Vietnam, China, etc.

Silly China Telecom, Cisco net boxen are made in the good ole PRC. Maybe China Telecom doesn't trust Cisco PRC boxen with back doors built in for free so why should anyone else.

If selling their PC business off could save it, that would be because it would finally release it from the string of aggressively stupid CEOs HP seems to get saddled with. Paying record bonuses or top of massive layoffs is no way to run a company.

To protect people form their privacy