False feeling of safety!

Thanks to ad networks, there are no safe sites on the interwebs.

This has been used in the UK since around 1996/7. You get a random 'audit' every N visits.

>You can prevent spoofing. Even theoretical systems turn out to have flaws, much less implementations.

Linux has similar problems - i.e, Ubuntu can "lag" a firefox release for hours or days behind a general security release.

Did i claim it was perfect? The centralised app store model has the same risks, but they are quantifiably lower than downloading and executing a file on a random website.

Of course, i didn't say otherwise. If you don't trust, don't install.

I realise you're trolling but there are two common malware paths these days: (1) Drive by Downloads - where exploits in things like PDFs, or Flash cause Remote Code Execution on the affected users box, by exploiting flaws in installed software. Hopefully privileged elevation requiriring sudo or UAC will prevent these programs running as admin/root, but often it's just enough that these apps run as a user class. (2) Stupid Users- people who have been trained to download anything from anywhere and just run it. OSX, like Windows, is vulnerable to both, because the software distribution model is totally broken. The app store may help, but i'll still put my trust, for now, in the linux repo model.

My current ubuntu device doesn't even have an optical drive....

Congrads. Does your GF have a key to your house? Because your "perfect system" has a single point of failure- a insider who could cause damage to both causing loss of data. Best not get on her bad side for now, anyway....

Sky does this. They pre-seed your DVR with a range of movies you can watch on demand - i.e, they're already been downloaded, before you pay.

Israel has never publically confirmed a nuclear test - but the Vela Incident has always assumed to be a combined South Africa/Israel test.

The NPT calls for disarmenent, not a reduction in stockpiles - which is sort of the point- the treaty is worthless, other than as a beating stick for large powers over smaller nation states.

Agreed, reduction has occurred. But you're not naive enough to sit their and pretend that Disarmament was ever the intention of the Nuclear powers under this treaty. The NPT was a political tool to coerce nation states into a public declaration that they wouldn't seek Nuclear Weapons - a damned if they do, and a damned if they don't approach. It completely fails to address the fact that Middle Eastern nation states live next door to a nuclear power who they have been at war at multiple times over the later half of the 20th Century who they distrust.

Which the US also signed. Care to explain how they're moving towards disarmenent, as the treaty obligates them to?

No, it's like you sell bananas, but the USA says you can't anymore unless you can tell the government how to remove the skin without the end user knowing. You damage the brand and the business model (security) by caving in.

Just encrypt the data on the way out.