silpol

No, it's not 'hostile'.

Behavior "give me now 50K and then monthly 200K" is called Racketeering.

wikipedia > In the United States of America, racketeering is a type of organized crime in which the perpetrators set up a coercive, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or operation (a "racket") to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit.

Did they offer new service and asked for more? No.

Did they came with new calculation based on costs? No.

They just insist on "more money or your operations are toast".

Once executives and vice- clout get into the court on racketeering, just like al Capone was, things will go much better.

While his leaks expose surveillance, he was useful idiot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot in hands of Assange club. And it might be event of his saving was trigger for Putin to start war. So no, I'd better see whole camaraderie before court and sentenced. Regardless of 'heroism'.

And yes, most of modern supporters of Wikileaks / Assange / Snowden / etc, chanting 'release Assange' and 'pardon Snowden' are useful idiots in hands of tyrannies like BRICS club.

you mean, like registering anti-ccp domain before ccp comes to power, eh?

there is reason why John Woods wrote in 1991

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. Code for readability.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/878436/499698

actually Bruce Byfield explains it in Linux Magazine:

Pass is available in the repositories of most major distributions. As usual, you can also compile from scratch, but, if you do, take note of the dependencies, especially GnuPG (GPG) [6], which creates encryption keys, and Password Generator (pwgen) [7], which generates random passwords that contain random combinations of upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters. Without GnuPG and pwgen, you will be unable to set up Pass, much less actually use it.

https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2014/158/Command-Line-...

for item 4, one has to have limited responsibilities towards society.

for some folks systemd is also 5th wheel in the cart

there is one small nuisance here - if we start to treat all governments equally skeptic, we should also "fry live" all large corporations too.

(quote) "People in dictatorial regimes didn't get there by being quiet. They never were. Even today in places like Venezuela and Russia people take to the streets. They got there by losing a channel of communication to their fellow citizens." -- you are clearly out of sync with reality about Russia. Since 2011 protests, Russian regime jails people even at "single person protest" which are always legal by their law, leave alone cases like Bolotnaya. NGOs are pushed into fed-by-govt-or-illegal mode. Political opponents either went into govt-is-right mode or expelled. Mind you, it is not dictatorial, it is only authoritarian. But it is toxic enough. And we haven't even started yet about DT going to hug with Putin asap once he is in chair. Did I mention that almost whole Republican party is in love Putin's image and strong arm behavior? Thank you but your ideas are out of sync with reality.

CA regulation did not stop VolksWagen to do what they did. And they did it for many years.

that's exactly how it is going on now. and it doesn't work anymore - different scale.

the sad thing is that you're probably on lawyer's mentality and hence deliver mantra "if that does not work on country level, lets push it up". Only that international law is not law-as-we-know-it. It is countries in interaction thing. Everything there is different - scale, speed, error rate, response rate, everything. And aside from "international law" part, it has started to change in earlier 00s, about 2005-2008. Next 10 or 20 or even 30 will be mess on international level, if not worse. So expectations of security global collaboration is... well, naive. And hence Mr. Schneier is right when he skips global level before going national. He is also right in a way that it is way easier to cast leadership with existing and working legislation than jump to table on global level and try to pull it towards imaginary rules. So... Mr. Schneier was right to skip. As per his lobbyism, without seeing his material it would be premature to jump to conclusions.

uptime was much better, and reaction was much quicker and to the point. with recent switchover to Google infra they are almost non-stop -- only Google is not that stupid to pay for your messaging ;)