Everyone still remembers the information about NSA installing spyware on Cisco routers, right? Maybe sales and thus information from such have strangely decreased? So let's call an ad-campaign!

Was this one included in the USB fans given to reporters during the NK - US summit? ;) :D

Your local government(s) exactly want you to think that way, so that you don't use those tools that would detect their malware. They can silence local tool vendors using National Security Letters. But not these kind of foreign ones.

If you read the story, mostly Italians are infected, with a malware made by Italian company and likely used by Italian intelligence agencies...

Sure, MP3 or other lossy compression can actually remove some of the bad distortion harmonics from the over-compressed and over-limited material what the big record companies are throwing out these days.

Any of these tests done on material which has any signal clipping in it, is immediately invalid.

Most of the CDs from big record companies produced on this century sound horrible. Luckily there are still small record companies producing good material on a multichannel SACD...

How about getting multicast finally into proper use? Then these kind of things wouldn't be an issue at all, or even get noticed...

Having each and every client streaming the same content separately is completely broken concept.