You have an irrational trust in an agency that has published intentionally compromised algorithms before. Well, there are tons of fools around. You fit right in.
The only one that is known for sure is the ECC-based PRNG. Nothing has been disclosed about their choice of elliptic curve parameters themselves for the NIST-approved elliptic curves, but so far no indications have been found that they may have selected them deviously - and the fact remains that ECC was first discovered in academia: the NSA were caught by surprise on this. As for DES, they tinkered with its initial design on NSA's advice all right, and it was only decades later that it was revealed why they did so: to make it resistant to either differential or linear cryptanalysis (I forget which) a technique that was known by the NSA at the time but not in academic circles.
Your knee-jerk distrust of NIST is, if anything, more irrational.
I pay a premium for Apple products because they claim to put the user as a centre of everything they do.
You are now going to carry on paying premium for those products and you are going to be subjected to ads. And you are going to like it, because Apple knows what you need and want.
Why would a browser focus on gamers? Are there serious games running in browsers?
You preempted me: do gamers use their browser significantly differently than the rest of mortals?
Now you're just being greedy
Well, hope springs eternal.
Yeah, I couldn't imagine wanting one of these at all, let alone paying almost three grand for it. I've had the same $200 phone for five years.
I would like a phone like that - but never at that price. In fact, I wouldn't pay more than a few hundred US dollars for it. It is a nice gadget, but nowhere near as nice as warranting that preposterous price.
Refreshed by a brief blackout, I got to my feet and went next door. -- Martin Amis, _Money_