fn-mote

Hate to say it, but if you don’t trust Signal to read your texts… you’ve already lost - stick with Facebook Messenger.

The number of people using F-droid is tiny.

Non-normies can continue to use PGP like they always have.

/s second paragraph.

This is very reassuring. It means they almost certainly have the $6b available. It’s the same order of magnitude as fines they have already paid.

They didn't because they were benefitting from the situation. (Users got to use their preferred tooling.) Until they weren't. That makes it more their problem, in my mind.

If there are no seals at all then it’s hard to argue this is the correct analogy.

And there was no interception. At the very strongest, the bad guys convinced Cisco to ship the stuff, and Cisco is saying it’s not their responsibility.

They definitely shipped something they didn’t build or check.

If you don’t have anything to steal, you don’t need to follow a security researcher anyway.

/s

Emphasis on guessing. If/when there is an actual postmortem, you’ll know when the back door was introduced.

^^ Had to verify that this was a real quote from the chain and not a joke. It is accurate.

When you are making a lot of money and have a security analysis of your stack.

> Detecting objects (and future objects!) on a train track is still a hard problem.

In this case the “object” was another train. That’s not the “hard” part of the problem. This sounds like an apologist comment.

What’s your point?

Covid spending took inflation to the moon. Just as economic theory predicts.