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Yep, for better or worse it's a digital life now. Good luck opting out of the cloud for your bank transactions, your health insurance claims, Amazon orders, etc. Our emails, chats …

What raidi and other said. But also, do not assume that we didn't encrypt any of the backend backbone transfers, or that some specific kind of information was exposed before -- for…

SMTP-TLS should fix that, but then the problem is that many email providers don't support that.

"the NSA/CIA could just have agents infiltrated at Google, to get access to a lot of that data" -- this would be really difficult, because no single person at Google can just sudo …

Muslim? Baptist? If there's one thing that SF always got right, is getting rid of religion, projecting a future of increasing secularism/agnosticism. Star Trek is a good example, G…

I guess its COBOL runtime is written in 6502. COBOL cannot self-host :)

Or Clarke's Childhood's End...

The "unshakeable forgettery of the author", and also the surprising nature of the ending for many readers, may be caused by the well-known fact that Asimov was a staunch Atheist, s…

When I came to Google for my onsite interview, in the group of people scheduled for that day there was this guy with an alpha-nerd attitude including a Rubik cube that he kept play…