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A computer can easily know right from wrong to the degree most humans are capable of (and too often they aren't very sophisticated at that) even today. But it's safe to assume that that ARM processor has no conscious awareness. Conscious awareness is simply the feeling of observing things, a feeling we assume the machines we've built do not have, for example.

In India corruption runs through all levels of government. This is a fact. So, yes, misuse is much more likely. I understand that you may have wanted to express that it's less likely that the data is abused for political reasons _by the government_ to further certain political goals. This may be true, I don't know.

When the forged certificate was created MD5 has been _throughly_ broken for a long time, much more so than SHA-1 even now.

There is very little international law that governs interactions between nations. Those governments trusted their host. They were betrayed.

I wonder why so many people believe this. Many simple and weak ciphers have been around for decades and - although they are considered to be very insecure by cryptographers - certainly can't be decrypted in real-time (!) on this scale (!).

It is certainly not one of the big newspapers, but still the largest regional one.

Thumbs up for this coming from the conservative party as well. As others have said, this really is a bi-partisan issue and we should build as broad a coalition of the unwilling as possible.

Who are those users to have an opinion of their own? If that's the way you think about your users, you probably don't deserve having them.

Maybe some people don't like the design, but can't move because they have already invested too much into the platform? A brand is a promise to not mess things up.

If users love everything Apple does we criticize them (The sheep!). If they form an opinion while still using Apple devices we criticize them as well (Those "experts"!).

Btw, I actually like the design. I was sort of shocked when I first saw it, but it grows on you pretty quickly.

Yes. Just ensure that the glasses always show an LED when recording, one that can't be controlled by software drivers.

My understanding is that MITM (but in a perfect way, using the leaked private key) is still required, if ephemeral Diffie-Hellman is involved. You can't just passively record the stream and decrypt it, since you don't know the exchanged DH secret.

The suggestion that the companies actually gave them the keys and this explains the "direct access" phrase makes a lot of sense!

If moles are involved, they might have simply leaked the private SSL keys. If used together with MITM this would be almost impossible to catch.

Yes, but how would they do this exactly? To collect anything valuable from Google they would need to MITM SSL on a large scale. And Chrome actually ships with a list of pinned certificates, including those for Google, making it difficult to MITM even for the government.

My thoughts exactly. And not just the content, but the vocabulary and the whole way the language is structured.

We were are talking about a random guy in front of the house, not the government.