Update (Insider Sept 17): The BBC in 2019 reported that human traffickers were using Facebook’s services to sell domestic workers. Apple threatened to remove Facebook from its App Store after a report about an online slave market. The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook knew about the practice even before Apple made its threat. There … Continue reading Facebook Lied About Encryption and Mines Outrage for Profit
Here are the four drivers cited in the 2020 Foreign Affairs article “How a Great Power Falls Apart: Decline Is Invisible From the Inside”. Amalrik identified four drivers of this process. One was the “moral weariness” engendered by an expansionist, interventionist foreign policy and the never-ending warfare that ensued. Another was the economic hardship that … Continue reading Amalrik’s Recipe for Great Power Decline
Security experts like myself have been explaining carefully why Apple is doing the right thing. We kind of have to when Snowden takes it upon himself to generate baseless controversy that offers little logical value. Beware privacy extremists who incoherently draw a line at children’s rights; somehow they rationalize adults must have absolute “freedom” to … Continue reading Snowden’s Beef With Apple is a Tasteless Word Salad
John Oliver points out how Afghanistan’s political instability was “literally a plot point in Rambo III” from 1988, and then suggests what could have been done to improve the dialog (spoiler alert): Afghan: This is Afghanistan. Alexander the Great tried to conquer this country. Then Genghis Kahn. Then the British. Now Russia. […] Ancient enemy … Continue reading Rambo Attempts to Understand Afghanistan