"almost complete lack of activity from teens in the US"
As the father to teen children, I can give a firsthand report: they consider Facebook to be incredibly lame. It's where old farts and companies hang out.
It sounds like little more than the UK version of the overreaction to online bullying in the US. In other words, it's bullshit. Not just bullshit, but bullshit that will harm the kids.
"I really don't see the point of 'biometric' or any other form of physical identity as they can be easily duplicated."
Not all forms are easily duplicated, but the vast majority are. The bigger problem, though, is this: If your physical identity is stolen, there's no way for you to change your "credentials". You're simply screwed.
This seems solid. It's simply using PKE in one the ways it was intended. But it's unlikely I would use it, as it requires a privileged computing device in order to function. It eliminates the ability to log into stuff if you don't have your smartphone/tablet/laptop/whatever with you.
There are so many instances of PayPal screwing people over (and out of money) that I avoid them to the greatest extent possible. How much you trust them depends on your own comfort level, but "not at all" is a reasonable stance.
Ahhh, no. I misinterpreted the statement. Snowden warned about the severe problems in the security infrastructure in general. He didn't call out the OPM specifically, as far as I know. But it still counts are warning in my book.
"You can argue that Google is the primo search engine that everyone uses, and I'm aware that currently it totally dominates, but how long before that's no longer true?"
I share this thought. Google has been voluntarily degrading the quality of their search results for years now anyway, to the point where I needed to start using other search engines to make up for it. Giving in to demands to make the results even worse only accelerates this trend.
Nowadays, I mostly use DuckDuckGo. In part for privacy reasons, but mostly because it draws its results from multiple search engines, saving me a few steps.
None of that really applies to a terrorist king's spank bank.
We don't really know that. It isn't beyond the realm of possibility that Osama's porn was somehow an instrumental part of the effort to assassinate him. The CIA has done freakier things than that before.
This is the huge, glaring insanity of the whole thing.
The reason they targeted the search engines instead of where the "offensive" information exists is because they were trying to sidestep accusations of censorship.
Which is a level of cognitive dissonance that is utterly amazing. If the information is so offensive that it deserves to be censored in search engines, then it should be censored at the source.
It's censorship either way, but doing it to search engines is less effective and places the burden on entities that aren't responsible for, or even holding, the data.
"I'm surprised they haven't pulled out of countries where such laws are passed."
I'm not. Google's primary interest is maximizing profit. I'm certain that they have crunched numbers and shown that they'll make more money by staying in.
They could also spin off the European branches into a subsidiary owned by Google. The subsidiary adheres to whatever nutty laws go into effect there, and Google can offer searches that haven't been degraded by those laws to the rest of the world.
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As the father to teen children, I can give a firsthand report: they consider Facebook to be incredibly lame. It's where old farts and companies hang out.
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Not all forms are easily duplicated, but the vast majority are. The bigger problem, though, is this: If your physical identity is stolen, there's no way for you to change your "credentials". You're simply screwed.
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It's awfully hard to get less than the "effectively none" that we have now around these parts.
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I share this thought. Google has been voluntarily degrading the quality of their search results for years now anyway, to the point where I needed to start using other search engines to make up for it. Giving in to demands to make the results even worse only accelerates this trend.
Nowadays, I mostly use DuckDuckGo. In part for privacy reasons, but mostly because it draws its results from multiple search engines, saving me a few steps.
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Well, maybe...
We don't really know that. It isn't beyond the realm of possibility that Osama's porn was somehow an instrumental part of the effort to assassinate him. The CIA has done freakier things than that before.
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The reason they targeted the search engines instead of where the "offensive" information exists is because they were trying to sidestep accusations of censorship.
Which is a level of cognitive dissonance that is utterly amazing. If the information is so offensive that it deserves to be censored in search engines, then it should be censored at the source.
It's censorship either way, but doing it to search engines is less effective and places the burden on entities that aren't responsible for, or even holding, the data.
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He did.
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I'm not. Google's primary interest is maximizing profit. I'm certain that they have crunched numbers and shown that they'll make more money by staying in.
So far, anyway.
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Not true. China isn't even the #1 holder of US debt. You know who is? US citizens and companies.
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And even if that weren't a concern, I am astounded that anyone thinks that people shouldn't have the right to know where their food comes from.
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