Go ask each of your neighbors if they've ever heard of it. Ask you coworkers. Ask your family members. "Publicly readable" does not translate to "well-known."

It isn't just the old days, either. Look no further than Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, who's doubling down on marijuana offenses to fill his buddies' privately-owned prisons. Meanwhile, he and the president are removing enforcement funding and focus from the opioid epidemic, which is (broadly speaking) a "whiter" drug habit. Let's be honest, they aren't going to lock up Aiden and Emma for popping roxys, they're going to lock up DeMarcus and Alonzo for having some weed.

Burning books isn't censorship unless the government is doing it. You're welcome to have a bonfire anytime. As JK Rowling would say, by the time you're burning books, the author already got your money.

Nah, that's what Dmitry Sklyarov was for.

I believe the current position of the USG is that transmitters are reserved for microwave pizza...

With regards to delivery, pizza parlor customer lists were one of the first sources of corporate data to be bought, raided, mined, and abused by everyone from ambulance chasers to the CIA. Want to find someone inside the United States, even if they chucked their cellphone into the Potomac and haven't touched their credit cards in 6 months? There's a good chance they've had a pizza delivered recently. If Jeff Sessions knew how many former fugitives are sitting in prison because they ordered a pizza to their hideout using their real name, he'd appoint Papa John as head of the Marshals Service.

One, she was a linguist, not a spook. Highly specialized individuals are often obtuse in matters outside their areas of expertise. If I needed brain surgery, I'd eagerly seek out the brilliant neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson. Likewise, I'd probably trust Ms. Winner to accurately translate a five-party Farsi dialogue in real time. I wouldn't want either of them advising me on matters of, say, agricultural food storage or information security.

Two, she was a contractor. The curriculum and rigor of the on-boarding process at Pluribus are unknown quantities to us. Contracting is a big fucking problem, and it's not going to get any better as long as there are politicians determined to privatize and profiteer from essential government functions.

Finally, her age is of some relevance. She's young enough to have grown up in a world where "everything is tracked" has been normal for most of her life. The ubiquitous and commonplace are far easier to gloss over and forget: when was the last time you really noticed a cell tower? Training is required to overcome complacency. This, too, is a problem that will only get worse. People give me funny looks when I tell them I've never had a pizza delivered, yet think nothing of giving away their most personal of data in exchange for a few more gems on the latest iPhone game.

Or that the London Bridge attackers came from Morocco, Pakistan, and Italy, none of which Trump proposes to ban.

I think you might be misunderstanding what happened here.

1. Harvard created an official, public Facebook group for the incoming freshmen. The students involved were all a part of that group.

2. Several of these students got together and created their own, private Facebook group for circulating offensive jokes and memes.

3. In order to be invited into the private, student-run group, you had to "prove you were worthy" by posting something offensive into the official, public, Harvard-run group.

At no time did Harvard demand or induce anyone to post anything offensive.

Some airlines have moved to iPad-based electronic checklists, navigation charts, logbooks, and crew timekeeping (I don't know if Egypt Air is among them). This saves hundreds of pounds worth of physical paper books from being hauled around on every flight, which adds up to millions of dollars per year in fuel. As well, there are some very widely-used aviation apps like ForeFlight that are only available on iOS.

For better or for worse, iPhones and iPads have taken over the cockpit. It doesn't mean the pilot was fucking off.

The Comcastroturfers.

Your insurance company, who'll discover that your wife searched for "breast lump" and then jack up your monthly premiums accordingly, even though it turned out to be nothing.

Your employer, who wants to clean house of any employees who practice a certain religion, but can't exactly go around asking everyone about it.

Your employer, who might be interested to know that you subscribe to both Netflix and Hulu; you obviously have too much disposable income, and can be passed over for a raise.

Your father-in-law, who's never liked you and can't wait to use your porn surfing habits to embarrass you at Thanksgiving dinner this year.

Your company's competition, who would love to brag about how you visit their website dozens of times a day.

We haven't even started with the government yet. Get creative. Your enemies are.

It was bleeped, and it was within the Safe Harbor period (10 PM to 6 AM). The FCC knows better.

I presume you're addressing Donald Trump here, considering he's again been pushing the idea of suing the press.

At which point they'll kick the door in, if they can, but you aren't compelled to graciously welcome them inside. Let them break into the phone if they have a warrant and are capable. One shouldn't be compelled to unlock the door.

Apple refuses to do it for a valid reason, and I see Apple as the ethical winners here. If Uber is experiencing a high rate of fraud, that's a business process problem that needs to be addressed within Uber's own internal systems. Considering Uber can afford a "competitive intelligence" team that buys and crunches data about Lyft, and they can afford to develop "Greyball" deception tools to evade law enforcement, they should also be able to afford a couple of employees to build some better fraud detection into their signup process. A little less offense and a little more defense might be a rewarding strategy.

Thousands of other companies conduct business via iOS apps without resorting to breaking the rules. Uber is showing once again that they don't give a fuck about the rules, and that puts them squarely outside of the "ethical right."