You are aware that Google and Apple handsets are made in China, right?

What do you expect from a Quartz article on tech? I mean, the phrase "Because China" precedes the headline.

The new Ontario Premier and his mega-conservative provincial government is basically dismantling all of the previous administration's programs. The motivation may ostensibly to satisfy some budgetary reason, but in reality it has nothing to do with any fiscal issue. This is not the first, nor the last social program Doug Ford will chop.

Thank you. It bothers the hell out of me that NatGeo can't keep their contractors within the very loose confines of ok English of any kind.

All, right, old man. I'll get off your lawn. Read a paper, Nixon isn't in power anymore! Oh wait...

You summed up everything I wanted to say. thank you.

This won't ever pass the "trust but verify" test, which is what transparency is supposed to be about.

Your obstacle isn't data bandwidth nor power, it's licensing. The powers that be don't _want_ you to vary from the current standards because they want to control licensing.

Must be nice.

Again, Evolution does everything Thunderbird did 10 years ago (better) and can handle Office 365 and Exchange accounts, including calendar sync. Thunderbird is dead dead dead. Trust me, I've tried very hard to make it work using linux in my mac/windows work, but it cannot pull its weight anymore.

WTF? What is this, 2006? Evolution does all this and actually works with Exchange and O365 accounts.

And "What happened next" did not stun electricity industry insiders. It was engineered to do the very thing it did.

Spin. The word you are looking for is spin. And the current administration isn't particularly good at it, which is why it comes off as incompetence (because it is).

"Misplaced". An organization which is, in essence the child of an 80-yr old covert international group whose budgets are largely opaque to reporting bodies of its own governement "misplaced" a number of tool into the hands of the most outspoken and publicly known leak group. Does that scan?

The _real_ point of an embargo is to allow those businesses participating in the embargo to save face. The embargo does not serve the user. Theo could have specifed that his patch was simply good practice, which is true. He did not advertise the reason for the patch either.
Besides, patching one system does not magically make the others vulnerable. They were already vulnerable.
On all counts, your argument has no leg to stand on, and yet we continue to allow this horseshit that vendors release vuln information like it's a fucking media event with previews and trailers.

Stop encouraging the koolaid-drinking.