Apple has a long history of building walled gardens. Why would you buy an Apple device and expect anything different?

Not always. There are products that exist that bind client data to your user profile and map your habits to identify risky behavior, and cookies are not required.

I agree. I was only addressing the statement about accidentally shutting down the computer.

That button used to (and maybe still does) exist - but not on the keyboard. Many models of computers had reset/restart buttons next to the power button (and Turbo buttons). It was handy. I agree though that it shouldn't be on the keyboard.

The article is only stating about using Ctrl+Alt+Del to log into Windows, not restart the computer. Changing the Windows login command to a single key (even the Windows key) would not have the effect you describe.

Maybe he should have written an article on how to host an article to survive rapid bursts in page views.

Does the fake charger still charge the phone?

URLs in transit over HTTPS are encrypted, but once they hit the server logs, they are stored in plain text along with any other data configured to be logged (unless on an encrypted volume, but that's outside the control of the web server software).

Key exchange is not performed over HTTP - it is performed by SSL or TLS (or whatever encryption protocol is being used). Even then, the public key exchange and encryption that is set up by the handshake is to set up a secure connection for exchanging symmetrical keys. Then the entire payload (whether it be HTTP, FTPS, or other application protocol) is encrypted. Asymmetric (key pairs) encryption/decryption is expensive, which is why symmetric keys are generated and used.

The public key of the certificate is signed by the private key of the CA. In a self-signed scenario, I own the private key of the CA and I own the private key of the certificate. I'd have to give one of those up to make your scenario work.

Ownership and copyright may be about getting credit, but getting credit is not always about ownership and copyright - some times it's just about getting credit. Unfortunately, people are sometimes driven to using ownership and copyright to maintain proper attribution.

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

on the definition of "program". To preface, I'm not a programmer, but I can write basic code. I did Apple BASIC in elementary and middle school. Dabbled in Pascal, C, and VBA in college. I would plant my "learned how to program" flag in my last year of college, when my roommates and I downloaded Slackware floppy images over a modem, downloaded Merc 2.2 source code, learned to compile it, then rewrote 80% of the code.

No, Google does not have the right to have advertising. They do have the right to insert advertising content into their data streams as it is content they host. The consumer has the right whether they view the advertising (or run software to remove the advertising).

Whether or not MS is in the right on this is a gray area for me, but I'm in their corner for making something their consumers will likely want (even if their motivation wasn't to meet their consumer demand).

From the article:

So in addition to the 0-day exploit found in IE, what was exploited to put malicious links on the web site?