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 and cat videos are but a small part of…
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 one thing, when we make inter-DC…
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 in some system and feast over sensitive…
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, Gene Roddenberry was an atheist and he…
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, so you wouldn't normally expect even an…
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 playing effortlessly -- he could completely…
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 and cat videos are but a small part of…
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 one thing, when we make inter-DC…
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 in some system and feast over sensitive…
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, Gene Roddenberry was an atheist and he…
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, so you wouldn't normally expect even an…
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 playing effortlessly -- he could completely…