Yeah I agree. Everything which has been reported about this hack seems to keep pointing to a concerted effort in misinformation. I really dont understand why the comment above about this being the work of North Korea as if it is fact? What. Changing the compiling workstations language is pretty easy way to create easy media headlines. Why do terrorist organisations and governments get the finger pointed at them first? Corporations have the most to gain.

I actually really like my phone- Samsung S4, I wouldn't really change anything. Only problem is that it's a work phone. I'm too poor to own one myself.

I constantly see salespeople I work with create a potential disaster during a client brief.

The response to salesman X's stupid promise, idea or agreement to a stupid idea, goes something like this in my head at the time:
"Sorry, no Bob is an idiot and we aren't going to do that - instead what we can actually provide is..."

Mix a sales based approach with an unobjective/misguided perspective of public servant management and you will create a bizaar fantasy which has nothing rooted in reality.

Why was this modded up?

I would be surprised if a comment about Canada not being the USA would get such approval.

Haven't you heard of Huawei? Personally I find it comforting that in my country, our infrastructure is built on Chinese spying devices rather than american.

China is on the rise and has principal/soul. The US is quickly declining and soon will lash out like the petulant child it has always shown us to be.

Amazon?

This really isn't in the picture for a lot people outside the US. And that's important in a discussion like this. Sure it may dominate a lot of the world, in so many places it is a brand we are aware of, we understand it's dominance, but we don't buy from it/use it's services.

An ecosystem can not live off the US and a small group of markets alone.

'Australia Tax'? I think it's more like 'Rest of the World Tax'. Here in New Zealand our prices are generally bang on the aussie price, tax and exchange rate adjusted.

The cost of our design workstations more than doubles once the software is installed, in no small part thanks to Adobe.

'including reviewing vendors’ ability to “lock” digital content into a particular ecosystem.' - I can see this being interesting for Apple.

The full report is here: http://www.checkmarx.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/The-Security-State-of-WordPress-Top-50-Plugins.pdf Posted above by xenoc_1

Geez they got that right. The sites down now. Awesome marketing if their looking for a future buyer or users from a bit of free press. lol.

While you've made some great points their pretty invalid given that all of these issues are about minors. We can easily view this as an issue of responisbility of those in supervision roles or even the children themselves ultimately this and many incidents like this is really a larger society issue of culture and media, the internet being at the core. We've created all of these tools of communication and media which are doing a pretty good job of skewing the concepts of community, friendship and society. Teenagers have enough going on without giving them a cultural and moral vacuum to get completely lost and confused in.

In some ways this could be likened to the US car industry. With practically free oil the automakers created monstrosities of excess all the way to their own downfall.

There are murmurs about the environmental impact of PC's, there has to be a time where the market will turn against the idea of constantly requiring more hardware that consumes more energy to do the same thing we always have. Developers are very much in a 'cheap oil' mentality not just on assumptions of consumers willingness to upgrade but their willingness to waste vast amounts of bandwidth on their product.

Why are drivers now in a 100mb package? Why are game updates are often 500+? There is never any extra content. How inefficient can developers get?

Personally this is the end of gaming for me. Too many disappointments over the years from buying cheap titles that just don't run and aren't supported at all by the studio (on 9-12 month old titles) to having to trawl forums to get past communication errors with steam (thats user friendly).

Is it wrong to want $100 software to run out of the box and to do so without being forced to provide my personal information? The software industry as a whole needs a big wake up call.

I've just finished a marathon effort to remove some nasty adware. It was never identified/found by several antivirus apps and a fresh install was the only remedy. It was written specifically to target firefox (IE worked fine), hijacking links randomly and not so randomly (ie anything with 'virus' and 'removal' on the page would be redirected to one of a few ad pages. Love calculators etc). I first noticed the infection because it was randomly sending me to bing.com. Not just links off google or other search forms but internal website links (for different sections etc). Seemed pretty strange at the time given I hadn't realised the infection had occured but I think it troubles me more now. I'm assuming adware authors wouldn't bother to do this unless there was a financial benefit, unless they really have alot of love for bing? heh.