FBI flatfoots have essentially ensured that all future up-market mobile phones will be essentially closed to all shades of law enforcement.

But then, if quantum computing lives up to it's promises..........

One wood chipper pass and then fed to chickens.

Untraceable.

Big it is. If you ever find yourself there standing next to a huge pile of shovels it is time to run for your life. The real work begins when the cement arrives!

It would take much of the drama out of executions too, and provide an economical way of putting back into the food chain.

Older than that perhaps.

Some ~20 years ago we visited the Tidbinbilla tracking station near Canberra, Australia. At that time they had a small snack-bar outside and not too far from the main entrance. Black Cat comes to mind as the name of the snack-bar but it was a long time ago! The snack bar had the usual foods and a customer-use microwave oven for warming them.

Before using the oven I glanced inside, looking particularly at the roof of the oven. I was not at all surprised to see the oven roof was rusted out and had a gaping hole the size of my palm where there should have been a perforated grating as an RF shield. I knew that oven well - We had one exactly like it and it too had also rusted out in the roof and been repaired under warranty.

The absurdity of a largely unshielded 650 watt microwave source operating in close proximity to super sensitive space tracking equipment was not lost on me and as soon as we returned home to Melbourne I telephoned the site and finally spoke to someone technical that realised the gravity of the situation. They never called me back, which was disappointing, but I can guess the Sharp oven hit the garbage pile the same day.

For the benefit of those that seek more detail, the oven was a Sharp model R8320 microwave/convection oven and was a popular model of the period. The cooking cavity was stainless steel except for the roof. Why that was made of mild steel is anyone's guess but it must have cost Sharp a pretty penny to replace those cavities

Perytons are just bursts, this oven could have caused minutes long tracking equipment wipe-outs.
 

But there are many roads to explore and many ways to seek out room temperature superconductivity.

As with many other discoveries, the stubborn and dedicated researcher will sooner or later find the answer.

We should never be cutting back on research. It is definitely a situation where more is always better than less.

But the clumsy method of shipping it to Virginia and then on to final destination seems to indicate this was only an occasional occurrence. If there were lots of them they would have been altered/enhanced on Cisco premises before final packaging.

Yeah but, it will be the mini Hell-fire missile for that dangerous speeding driver that will feature big time in major unintended co-lateral damage! Crispies on the free-way anyone?

If you lie down with dogs - you get fleas!

An easy solution would be to simply accept it as inevitable. As this impending Pharma disaster is going to equally affect people at every level of society we might as well look on it as the world-wide population control that we had to have. Karma on steroids if you like. It really is about time we had a clean sweep...

Me? I am buying into companies that specialize in mouth hygiene products of all types. It is a near certainty that all future diplomacy and major corporate policy will be discussed in close head to-head meetings in the centre of huge rooms in order to prevent espionage. Bad breath will be a career-ending certainty... Note that head-to-head is exactly the way that head-lice are transmitted to others so expect to be able identify major decision-makers either by their constant head scratching or by their permanently shaved heads.

That given the size of many apartment blocks these days there is the nagging thought that it might be kinder to everyone concerned to just not look for these massively destructive objects until we have an absolutely foolproof way of deflecting them sufficiently to provide a significant engineering challenge for future generations. I sweep dirt under the mat too!

Fight fire with fire. Set an industry cut-off date to blackball all specialists, technicians and contractors working in these agencies from future employment in the wider commercial IT world. This will quickly remove many thousands of specialists from the surveillance field and eventually bleed it dry. The same technique will work equally well in all countries that have abusive governments...

"I see this getting far worse, not better. Much much worse." There has not been much discussion about DNA databases lately. To think that these would not get into the hands of various government authorities is to believe in the tooth fairy. From government to Insurance companies is a short trip on the old boys network and then the fun starts for Joe Citizen...

Nobody said it better than Winston Churchill... "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."