Posts by Amos1

Blah Blah blah ... I don't care! To hell with your tech marketing bull

Good for you in taking the week off to be with Prometheus. You have your priorities correct. Always choose Life over Stuff. The work will always be there. Please accept our family's condolences.

Cryptome founder revokes PGP keys after weird 'compromise'

I'm missing something here. Public keys are, well, public. That's how RSA works. I hope he meant his private keys were what was compromised or he just revoked a bunch of certs for no reason.

California takes a shot at mobile 'killswitch' mandate

Re: meet the Law of Unintended Consequences...

It's more likely that governments around the world learned the lessons of SMS and Twitter use that were taught to the incumbent Egyptian government during Arab Spring. Up next: remote kill switches in all vehicles. Oh wait, that proposal is already pending in the UK. I'll bet the remote kill switches still allow the car and phone location to be covertly tracked and the microphones remotely enabled "to aid in recovery." Good thing the US government isn't buying billions of rounds of ammunition for DHS, eh?