The fact that you or anyone else thinks it's not legal is mind-boggling to me.

Not that I think this needs a stupid analogy, but here's one anyway: This is like sitting in a busy intersection on a public street and writing down everything audible that is said.

To bring this analogy to a home, it's like standing out on (again) the public street, writing down everything you hear people say who are shouting out their own open windows. Why would anyone think this is illegal, and how could the persons speaking in either of these scenarios have any realistic expectation of privacy?

Then I guess the way to solve this is by not pedantically applying simple advice unilaterally to the point of parody?

That's crazy talk.

It's only insightful if you think admittance to Heaven is your reward for being altruistic.

Slashdot users, or...?

Truly, this is a nightmare made real.

Citation needed.

Fortunately, some of us are smart enough not to click every stupid shiny thing we see in the web, or even use operating systems extremely vulnerable to this type of attack.

Not all operating systems are created equal, nor have the same attack surface. Not arguing against the usefulness of a firewall here, but what good is antivirus if most (of the really bad) exploits are zero-day? If you don't apply the remaining security patches, well, that's really a different issue.

Your post assumes a great degree of naiveté, but all users are not created equal either.

Besides, the post you're attacking wasn't even the poster who claims AV on a phone is stupid.

Yes, I can see how a tab far outside the physical storage media would physically prevent the write heads from touching the floppy (which, I think, was the point GP was trying to make).

Tor may hide the endpoints to a midpoint party, but you can bet it would only be a matter of time before the closest exit node to Pakistan would be honeypotted.

http://cryptome.org/0003/tor-spy.htm

You mean, the defaults? Thanks for sharing.

I was going to hack my firmware and distribute my PSN-capable homebrew software, but now that Sony has shown they care nothing for its users, I'll take my business elsewhere.

Indeed. And then, when one of these services randomly decides they don't want these files (which happens often), you're stuck with no parts 14-17 of 31 of your download.

The advantage of splitting to small files USED to be to post them to Usenet.

Assuming Usenet ever existed, that is.

Welcome to the Internet.

Where did you get this information from? I have a PSN account, and have never entered my credit card into my PS3 (nor used it for PSN purchases).

The PSN login is there, and you have to pretend to log in, and it will tell you that "PSN is currently undergoing maintenance" with the option to close the message. Then, Netflix works.

Though, it does sometimes begin doing that inexplicable PSN-login-cycling thing it sometimes does, like when you leave Netflix idling too long.