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Build it and they will come.
If the assumption is that they are marching to death prior to vaccine administration can it get much worse than that?
After the Boston bonanza Reddit is going to squash anything that looks even remotely like it.
MSCHAP is not good enough anymore either.
It is only the linux kernel afterall.
They, Google, Level 3, etc. all own so much of the network backbones...it's impossible not to route through an adversarial trunk.
The answer is now encryption. End-to-end, and everywhere. Email should be considered as dead as the landline. Secure-IM and chat...along with self-hosted data services[like Owncloud] are the future. Or at least they should be.
Information is power and your adversaries will not give it up, ever. The only way to take that power is to scramble the bits.
Just like the money PRISM brought to enable the monitoring, now they want per-use or even better regular rents from the government to keep the taps open.
The nice little side benefit is the puppet theater for their customers who still labor under the delusion that they have some shred of privacy with either of these for-profit corporations.
I'd like to think this is complete nonsense, but my life experiences say it's certainly possible.
Seems like these guys should have more than enough women chasing their money to not have to squabble over any one in particular.
Either no patents or very short patents[<=12 months for anything] is a basic requirement for a progressive society.