Imagine always having a reliable internet connection at a fraction of the cost.

Civilized countries have already figured this out.

If only there existed people to investigate… and… report… on it…

I suppose good journalism can be slow, though.

And where did all this money go…?

It’s a shame the outage didn’t take MSN down with it.

What do you mean where? It’s literally in the name.

Fraud, waste, abuse.

Because a shit ton of fraudulent science hasn’t come out of the US or Europe. Nope. No sir.

Sure, it’s not a bad thing and it should be standard practice, but to act like encrypted traffic guarantees privacy is silly.

If you are implying that a government wants your data, they can just buy it or request it from the company directly. They don’t have to snoop to get it. Also SSL isn’t going to stop them.

The fact that anyone thinks they have any semblance of privacy when typing into an online AI chatbot is saddening.

Of course anything you type into a externally hosted AI is going to be harvested and sold.

But sure, in this case you are also potentially exposing your queries to your ISP or someone listening on your local network too.

Enterprise adopted 100GbE networking around 2019. You can now buy used network cards for around $100 each.

This is dumb.

Even if you encrypt network traffic, the receiving server still knows what you’re doing. All it does is prevent third parties from snooping.

Usually.

Apparently, the CIA is now the premier public health agency of the USA.

This announcement comes as the old establishment (CDC, FDA, DHHS) is currently under a gag order until Feb 1.

Nothing to see here, folks.

Believe it or not, some people are capable of acknowledging more than one news story per week.