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There's a big difference between "a little impedance" and "risks human life". War waged with robots will still cost money. If politicians make bad decisions, perhaps you should try…

A lot of people make stupid cases. Should giving birth be dangerous so that people are reluctant to have unwanted children? Should sending email be dangerous so that people receive…

Of course there is. Every modern iPhone has a unique ID and its own private key.

When that happens, sure, let's be happy. Until then, forgive us for not having an aligned interest in giant corporations being above the law.

The only frightening part of your story is the insecurity of the human experts.

Sure, in theory, 1password MIGHT have better private auditing and review. But there's no reason to believe they do. To the contrary, when asked about open sourcing 1password, one o…

Wants mean little. I want to marry Taylor Swift.

Firstly, I said "perhaps deliberately, perhaps not" because I am not claiming that they intentionally wanted to provide security theater. I don't think that motive is relevant. I'm…

Why value tangible benefits over intangible ones? Calling it an illusion implies that air travel is not safe, when in fact it is very safe. However, people did not feel safe, so th…

I find it unlikely that consumers are as safety conscious as you imagine them to be. Think about how many people currently text or do other things to distract themselves while driv…

Even if they had similar access, a leak is still dangerous because it allows them to behave as if they have the information without divulging as much about their own capabilities.

In my experience, the people who work with technology do the same, just with different sound bites.

That feeling is warranted. Relative to the US, Bolivia is impotent.

What does that have to do with what I said? Why do you think I mentioned life insurance?

Why not? They are in some countries, like Finland. It seems to work OK.

No matter how much social security is, some people will manage to spend so extravagantly that it is not enough. An anecdote of one such person is not very convincing.

For most of us with dependents, that's what private life insurance is for. The social safety net is for people too poor or irresponsible to have life insurance.

Search google for something like "microsoft tech support phone number"?

Remittite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.

Hopefully it sounds like exactly what I said it was in the first sentence. The only part I could reasonably see as being called "speculative" is the second sentence of the first it…

Which part of that comment was an unsupported assertion? The "assertion" that documents leaked in 2013 are now several years old? The "assertion" that not every single capability t…

What Snowden leaked is a lower bound on the NSA's capabilities, not an upper one. And even in the "best" case, where he and the journalists involved exercised no discretion about w…

In the house analogy, it's less of a backdoor and more like just walking through the wall.

Any proof would obviously be classified. But there is a lot of circumstantial evidence. 1. He made the statement in the OP. That implies that normal people using modern encryption …

For most searches the average person does - aka I want to go to the wikipedia page or official site for X - the results are indistinguishable.