Maybe bespoke browsers should impersonate other "acceptable" browsers, through `User-Agent` and possibly other fingerprinting measures, so that they pass such checks. It inevitably becomes an arms race, which no one should really want, but I prefer that over the browser landscape becoming a monoculture. Perhaps while we're at it, this can also be used to thwart fingerprinting technology being used to track our browsing habits without cookies.

In 2006, NIST published a standard for random number generation, which included the Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm. In 2013, it was revealed that the NSA had inserted a backdoor into the Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm, which would allow them to predict the output of the random number generator. Perhaps we should remember that when evaluating any other NIST security recommendations.

Mandating an app would in effect mandate that citizens contract with Google, Apple or Microsoft, unless said app is open source. I don't think it would be legal for the government of a free and democratic society to mandate that its citizens contract with corporation(s).

I read a story in 2017 about an amateur venue host inadvertently using UVC gemicidal lamps instead of blacklights, with the exact same symtoms: https://www.hongkongfp.com/201... bigclivedotcom on YouTube examines a number of UVC lamps, and discusses why they're unsafe to expose to human eyes and skin. Here's one: https://youtu.be/CpRMud6EFtE

+ American Samoa
+ Guam
+ Hawaii
+ Northern Mariana Islands
+ Puerto Rico
+ U.S Virgin Islands

An email containing a nothing but a poop emoji.

For your own safety and the safety of others, it is now curfew. Please return to your homes. Violators will be detained. Please cooperate and report any suspicious activity. All non-essential travel is suspended until further notice. Please remain in your homes and await further instructions.We are here to ensure your safety. Cooperation is vital. Obey all instructions for your own protection.

This is grounds for CircleCI to be sued into oblivion. Competent organizations have layered security, designed to prevent even employees themselves from having casual access to customer data (especially credentials). Given this, who should (continue to) do business with CircleCI?

So, the FAA system is a central point of failure that can be taken down with one corrupt file, costing untold millions of dollars in expenses for airlines. Gentlemen, start your lobbies.

This could be a mission of exploration outside of our planet, or it could just be a covert COVID-19 quarantine program.

After some have tried to make the case that in this day and age we don't need VPNs (because: end-to-end encryption) it seems that we have a good reason: to avoid ongoing surveillance by local state actors acting on behalf of corporations.

I keep hoping for hydrogen to get a foothold, because I don't see battery EVs working for trucking, rail or recreation vehicles. I'm dubious cartridges will address these markets. And, as noted, hydrogen isn't green... yet. (In many markets, electricity isn't either.) Does anyone see hydrogen getting serious attention as an alternative?

This idea has been very thoroughly debunked by Thunderf00t and Adam Something.

How to make it legal:
Step 1. Add text to the encyclopedic EULA that people hurriedly click-through so they can play with their shiny new toy.