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Every browser seems to implement its own password management scheme. None of them are as good as the same functionality that already exists in the operating system. Browsers should request access to passwords from the OS when needed, perhaps once per session.

Technically the NSA is a part of the DOD. They assist the ODNI which is civilian, although its leadership role is limited.

I think the US government is not on the list because they don't need this program. The NSA finds its exploits directly from the source code, which Microsoft shares with them and many other governments, not second-hand from Microsoft.

I hope Snowden realizes that none of this matters if an FBI agent is sitting beside the reporter as they communicate.

An open message to Snowden: this reporter would hand over his private key in a second.

He probably pissed off some member of the royal family, whom are more important to the US than intellectuals.

Although this wasn't news to most people here, keep in mind that the US has always denied doing economic espionage, against China or anyone else. The Snowden leak also revealed that the largest target of US espionage in Europe is Germany -- I can't think of any reason for that other than economic espionage. This certainly raises questions.

I'm glad I came across this article. I'm learning Python and was given that advice to use multiprocessing rather than threading, but hadn't researched why. Very informative, thanks for sharing.

This looks great. It could be the PGFPlots of Javascript.

Without going into the technical details described by other commenters here, this is my understanding of the problem (please correct me if I'm wrong): You receive the code that is run, from the same entity you should be protecting yourself from -- that being the Cryptocat server. This is a big contradiction.

One really should assume that if a service can be compelled to act against the interests of its users, that will eventually happen.