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Comment Re:And the first to cry foul. (Score 1) 93

Are you sure you're talking about China there? That sounds like the MAGA party to-do list, especially if you add on corporate extortion and mandatory bribes to the leader of said one party state.

Comparing the crap China does right now, and has done for decades, with your speculations on what 'bad orange man party' purportedly wants is some really advanced whataboutism.

Comment Re:And the first to cry foul. (Score 2, Insightful) 93

So GM is their EV production but they are also crying foul about cheap Chinese EVs? Sounds like just another day the the land of greed and bullshit.

Yes, because there is absolutely no other reason why Chinese EVs are cheaper. Just ignore the virtual (and actual) slave labor, skipping R&D costs by stealing IP hand over fist, strip mining for materials with no regard to environmental concerns, disregard of consumer safety, and massive subsidies from the authoritarian single-party government.

Comment "lawful interception" (Score 5, Insightful) 151

> The NSA compromised lawful Russian interception infrastructure, SORM. The NSA archive contains slides showing two Russian officers wearing jackets with a slogan written in Cyrillic: "You talk, we listen." The NSA and/or GCHQ has also compromised Key European LI [lawful interception] systems.

Are these the same sort of 'lawful interception' systems that western governments are constantly trying to ram through "for the children"? The ones that they constantly assure the public are 'secure' and will only be used for 'lawful purposes'?

Comment "AI" vs Strong AI (Score 4, Insightful) 227

The AI we have today is not capable of the kind of malice that people seem to be afraid of with all of these FUD stories, and will not be any time soon if ever. Even if we add some AI to things like drones which can kill people it is only the malice/incompetence of the developer that causes the destruction that results. If an engineer built a bridge woefully inadequately, either on purpose or because he is incompetent, and it falls down and kills a bunch of people would you blame the bridge or the engineer? We are not even remotely close to the Terminator level strong AI, and it's still a big open question whether such a thing is even possible at all.

Comment Nothing new (Score 5, Insightful) 275

Half the web developers out there can't even prevent simple cross site scripting let alone the dozens of other common threats that exist in web development. As with adding any other new development feature, it's just giving people who don't know any better more ammunition to shoot themselves in the foot with. There needs to be more focus on educating developers on security instead of trying to cram every new buzzword tech they can into their application.

Comment Re:It's a good start, but... (Score 3, Insightful) 176

Shockwave hasn't been used much for a quite a while, unless you are referring to flash (but hopefully html video will kill that eventuall). Javascript on the other hand is going to be around for quite a while, what we are more likely to see will be things like signed javascript or some other security mechanism like that added to it.

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