ROFL. Please provide proof they remove accounts based on partisan politics! Except for that case that they removed an account based on partisan politics!
And you think an isolated incident somehow proves a trend or is otherwise concrete evidence of repeat violations? There's zero evidence of a systemic problem.
And that's the last time anyone buys cyber insurance from Zurich. What's the point of cyber insurance that doesn't cover ransom wear? Just a useless waste of money.
They aren't not covering ransomware. I suspect future buyers are going to re-evaluate if they really don't need coverage against being casualties of nation-state attacks though.
Property insurance industry works with the security community to develop and enforce standards for security operations, safes, locks, alarm systems, etc. that reduce theft, and employs investigators to recover stolen high-value goods.
Auto insurance industry works with the automakers and regulators to develop and enforce standards for crash safety, airbags, crumple zones, collision avoidance systems, etc. and employs litigators to recover damages from the at-fault party.
Insurance companies aren't just professional gamblers. They are risk managers. You pay them to deal with the nitty gritty of risk mitigation in whatever domain because it's not your speciality.
How are you going to manage the risk of enemy damage in war? You're going to wield more violence than the threat, and seize its assets to make yourself whole. Instead of settlement or recovery, we call it reparations.
There are insurance companies that insure war risks, e.g. for facilities in unstable countries, and those companies are not in a position to seize reparations.
Next time you are in Singapore, go check out the Park View building. Make sure to explore the statues outside and go into the ground floor and be amazed.
I had exactly the same thoughts when I stumbled upon it wandering around the downtown late at night. It was dark, I was alone in the patio and the building front looked amazingly scary.
Everyone is all for things like this when it's their side beating down people they don't like. But then when it is used to attack something they agree with they all suddenly get outraged. Very few these days seem to like ideas like freedom of speech or a "market place of ideas". Seems every one needs a nanny as long as the nanny is one of our guys.
yeah, it's a big concern. Fundamentally I'd describe it as partisanship prevailing over principles. However, I don't know if principles have prevailed historically, or if it's always been this way. It does seem to be getting worse though.
A secondary MX record doesn't solve the problem of "accept email and silently route to /dev/null".
Aside telling the sender or receiver, there's no good way to know. I guess you could send a test email every hour.... But this is an evil failure mode. This isn't an accident.
Statistically speaking (tally up the dead for example) the biggest threat people face in their lives is not from any terrorist or criminal, but from their own government.
Kinda terroristic and criminal governments, often enough. And when you consider the lives saved by having hospitals or food safety regulations or whatever, criminals and terrorists are doing nothing positive at all, so these "statistics" seem kinda off.
The threat is in not dealing with politics before it deals with you, and a good way to do that is seeing "the government" of a democratic nation as something totally separate from a citizen in that nation... instead of getting engaged because it's so messed up, to disengage further because it's so messed up.
Like it or not, it's a phrase that dates back to Mark Twain that has far more baggage than some strict analogy made up on the spot. For instance Chris Dixon here[1] suggests that Heroku and Akamai sell pickaxes, not dynamite as a service or scalable ore transport systems.
All I'm doing is defending the GP's use of the phrase, which was absolutely valid. Perhaps you'd have used a different analogy, but it doesn't invalidate his. No quantity of curt denials you care to throw my direction will change this.
My lord, it’s an expression, it’s not literal. Pickaxes in this metaphor are any and all tools in between an individual and their target. You would be totally right to say banks are selling pickaxes in the current financial system.
> there's no value-driven economic model to justify cryptos collectively being worth $50B-$100B.
Of course there is. You are just starting from your ideology (that there must be no value to them) and work backwards to your dismissal and so you have closed your mind to the possibilities.
Here's 1.8 trillion of possible value, just to help put things in perspective
That’s all fine and good, but that doesn’t mean that most of those cryptocurrencies are suited to addressing that market. Pretty much only Zcash and Monero are. Those represent only a tiny fraction of the market. The big problem for crypto though is that if it is only used for narcotics, and there’s no plausible use case otherwise, it’ll all get outlawed. For it to support that business it needs to have an equally large legitimate use case and it definitely does not. Otherwise the early adopters will have just about as easy a time cashing out of this is as they would the underlying narcotics.
