So - your use of terminology would lead me to think that you haven't been at this too long (I apologize in advance for the snark if that is not the case). If you deal with certain information, you would certainly NOT use the term CLASSIFIED in discussing the status of that information. CLASSIFIED has a VERY specific meaning in certain domains - including the domain that you seem to indicate that you work in. If you are, indeed, handling such information, I would suggest running, not walking to your FSO for a conversation. It will probably be fairly brutish and short. If, however, you are dealing with ITAR regulated information, then you have a different set of issues. You may not export the data without a permit, but you don't need to control it specifically within the US. Also, the regulations around foreign persons (or those of dual nationalities) relate to export activities. So, you can't transfer to a foreign person if you know (or suspect) that they are going to export the data. However, foreign persons in the US that aren't an export channel are not an issue (else a whole lot of commerce in the US would halt since I have no idea if another company has any foreign nationals employed, and I don't have to get an ITAR export license to ship something to another domestic company). In the later case (where we are talking regulation, not classification), you don't have an issue if you don't export the data (don't pick a company with foreign presence for cloud storage). Actually, one could probably be ok if they encrypted it (strongly) and then stored (but you may (or may not) want to talk to your DDTC rep about that. You should have no problems finding an offsite storage company to provide the service, and/or use someone who allows you to restrict the S3 zones (if AWS is the backend store) to us-* regions. Similar for rackfiles, dream objects, etc. Another comment here is worth highlighting, however - use consumer services, get consumer service. Go upmarket a bit if you are actually looking for something that your company's bottom line is hung on.

Let's see - collect un-curated, anonymous accusations that someone is a "danger to society" and stick that on a map (of their house, for example). That could NEVER go wrong. It worked very well for decades - I believe the Stasi accepted anonymous tips about people presenting a "societal risk" in the GDR. It made that society SOO much safer. Even better, instead of informing the local constabulary who may be unfortunately constrained in their actions (pesky constitutional protections and all that), we're going to publicize it to the general public who happen to be the neighbors, friends, associates, and COMPLETE strangers. Much better for corrective action to be taken. I'm sure NO ONE with radical ideas would be incited to act based on these unsubstantiated, unverified labels. No one would tell their child to not sell cookies to the man down the street because someone randomly clicked a button on the phone, NO ONE would break into a house to acquire "unsafely stored" weapons (that may not even exist) because someone thought that a person with a ducks unlimited bumper sticker must harbor unsafe guns... Na, that could never happen. Guns-done, what's next, "Strange" parties, suspected "deviant" sexual practices, I know - suspected witches - excellent, we haven't burned, hung and drowned anonymously accused individuals in this country for centuries, oh wait, we have, lynch mobs. Many states have laws regarding how weapons should be stored, including this crackpot's state (California). If you have a REAL, substantiated concern, go to your local police, or, shudder the thought, the individual you are concerned about. However, you may actually have to make a case for your complaint and justify your statement. If that's too high a bar for you to bother with to enhance your "safety", then either you really aren't that concerned, or you don't really value your safety. If you feel strongly about something, stand up and take ownership, don't go off an anonymously start a whispering campaign. What's the REAL purpose of this app? It looks, to me like a public shaming, a public shaming for something that is unproven, and possibly/probably completely unjustified.

Slight correction here, The current Internet Draft that is sighted is not a standard yet (i.e. not an RFC). IF this draft is accepted by the IETF, and published as an RFC, then HTTP 2.0 would be a binary protocol. Since the Internet Draft is a working group draft, it will most likely advance and become an RFC standard, but that is not an automatic process.

Actually, that's the nice thing about XMPP - there are LOTS of XMPP servers (sometimes also called Jabber servers). A list of public (free) servers can be found at https://list.jabber.at/ The great thing about Jabber/XMPP (and the thing that Google just shut off), is that jabber servers can find each other on the net. Therefore, if you have an account as alice@jabber.org, and your friend has the account bob@example.com, you can message each other just as you do now. the XMPP server at jabber.org will find the XMPP server at example.com and give it your message for bob to deliver. It's just like e-mail - only in real (or close to) time.

The rules and requirements for grid-tie are there for a reason. Part of the cost for said system is the testing and validation that the safety circuits work (i.e. will interrupt w/o arc-welding shut in a surge, etc.) At best, a homebrew system violates the code in your area and you could be liable for connecting such to the grid. It also gives the power company more reason to distrust grid-tie ("see, we told you people would do this...") At worst, you light up a lineman who is trying to repair the system after a storm. The disconnect HAS to be certified. If you don't want to buy a commercial inverter, then buy a generator disconnect (but then you aren't grid-tied, that's an either-or). As for synchronization, if you are putting power on the grid out-of-phase with the grid, you will be really popular with your neighbors, really fast. Within the reach of your generation, you won't be at 120 vAC RMS anymore. If you grid-tie you are on the grid, period. Electricity flows where it wants, your power becomes others power. Your grand experiment is involving others, if they want it or not. Please tell me where you live, so I can isolate my house before you do this.... Now, if you want to experiment OFF the grid, that's really cool, and go knock your self out. Just don't include others in your experiment.