There is an OS X and a Linux version in addition to the Windows version of this spyware. Check it out :)

Now THAT is precious... Since when is spying illegal in the US? They even tamper with other people's hardware, suck up the data of whole countries, deploy MITM attacks on the backbone and more. Really, they should just shut up and at least not become a bunch of spineless hypocrites.

Bullshit. I use Firefox since years, and it has been 64 bit for ages. Also, it rarely crashes (I think the last time it crashed for me was some time last year, but really, don't remember details). The main source fore restarts are the high-frequency updates.

Any type of redundancy is enough to fix errors, as long as you have at least one correct copy. raidz has one copy redundancy, raidz2 has two copies redundancy, and mirrored drives have as much redundancy as you want.

That sounds stupid. He should have used proper encryption like Apple's File Vault or TrueCrypt. Those work independently of that domain stuff. And they allow you to back up a recovery key too.

It's not like I'd die without it, but I wouldn't' get into any of my accounts. I also use a lot: Firefox, TextWrangler, Xcode, clang, quicksilver, Mac OS X, ...

Incorrect. The PIN should never leave the device. It should be encrypted by the key pad for the chip on the card, and only that chip should be able to read it, decode it, and then sign the transaction as valid and authenticated. Again, the PIN should NEVER leave the device.

He should really have made backups if his work is so valuable to him. Cloud storage might be in these days, but putting all eggs into the same basket is risky either way.

Linux 3.14 should be Codenamed "Pi"

If you display the password, then malware could easily read it from screen by making a screenshot (or asking the OS to do it).

No, honestly, writing evil code in C is easy. You can open files without restrictions, modify them without restrictions, and so on, all with the power of the running user. Executing untrusted C code is NOT SECURE.

Executing random C code from somewhere on the net in a Browser is even dumber than doing the same with Java. Java at least has a security model, even if it's broken anew every week, and has more holes than a sieve. C on the other hand has nothing. It really is more or less like a portable Assembly Language as it was developed for.

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