The only debate has been between those with a vested interest in it happening, and no one else having a look at it

Yes, because guns are the solution to all the problems everywhere

How is there news about Office 2010, which was presumably released 6 years ago. Who even uses Office these days, Google docs all the way... or a Markdown editor.

Disappearing step by step

It's a shame one of the biggest cloud hosting providers, aws, doesn't provide ipv6 support.

Actually with the data ISPs will collect and given that all of those providers use https for the webmail, your ISP will only know you accessed gmail, but have no idea of the contents of your mail

I was hoping to see an article discussing the changes in architecture and how the improvements have been made, not just regurgiting lists of bench marks

I think that is the craziest part, that again the people involved know about, that they can never hope to control all the software in the world. And as much as they can might be able to stop ordinary americans using real encryption they have no chance of stopping the 'terroists' that they claim to be really trying to spy on.

When politicians say this things - you can maybe believe that they don't understand the impossibility of undermining encryption such that only the 'good guys' can do it. But the director of the FBI, would must know what he is talking about, and must know that its just completely wrong.

Its hard to say what i would think, when it comes to a personal family member, but honestly, freedom is worth the price.

Unfortunately this is a recurring theme that GCHQ has tried to push on each of last few governments seemingly in an attempt to legalise what they are already doing.

You could easily right, its something that we will have to fight for when the time comes.

I don't disagree that hosts file might not be better, adblock is just a very simple solution, for non Slashdot users, my point is simply that I am not interested in working around the problem, I would be more interested in solving the problem at the source.Clearly ISPs are lacking proper regulation, net neutrality is being allowed to be destroyed, by a lack of response to such things.

Everyone agrees that its easily worked around, a simple adblock extension will do it, but the point is rather more serious, that comcast think its ok to supply you not with the internet, but the internet according to comcast.

take em to court for claiming to provide free internet and actually providing something quite different