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This is good work.

Your comment begs the question: Do you fall for the marketing hype? And if not, then do you think you should keep quiet about stuff that works? At the time, IMHO, PG was indeed sma…

The -D option is a superfluous feature, IMHO. I always remember who proposed it and that alone discourages me from ever using it. Why does the author have to use a "web gui"? Or ma…

"99.9% of activities which brain controls..." s/activities/known &/

The post from 1997 assumes /var/log is not vulnerable tampering; assumes that the syslogd or access to the socket or port it's writing to is not vulnerable to compromise; and assum…

Yes! You got it!

"... because you can trivially MITM someone..." This assumes the user is relying on certificates for authentication. Certificates that are likely tied to domain names. What if the …

It sounds like domain registrars are being used to supplant the role of CA's? This reminds me of the situation with email where if a user has not purchased a domain name, then it i…

Is the lure of letsencrypt that 1 it's accepted without warning in browsers or 2 it lets users ignore learning how to use the openssl binary (or writing their own tools with libssl…

It's not a secret when you know how to code but you are an end user. Knowing how to code and knowing how to learn to code makes this widespread incompetence masquerading as compete…

A letter apologizing for his wrongs, announcing that Facebook will no longer collect personal information and that it will exist for users not advertisers, as well as promising to …

Otherwise known as PR. Some clients need it more than others.

Did Ballmer ever do any programming? If not, why? Did he just have no curiosity or interest? Sounds like he had far more capacity for maths than Jobs.

Someday his children will read this, along with his "letter". announcing the LLC. They "trust me" How can anyone claim that it would be common and understandable for anyone of his …

Wow. How many emails, pictures, addresses, SNS does he have now? And this is what made him so wealthy? Collecting personal information? Incredible.