I am not ignoring the legitimate use cases - and I never said that there weren't any. I simply pointed out that if you work in DPI/filter/blocking and your company sells to those regimes, that you support the oppression of the affected users.
I can help with some real world examples. One is Blue Coat.
This case is a brilliant reminder to anyone working in deep packet inspection/blocking/filtering tech that your work negatively affects the safety of millions of people in such countries at once.
So it looks like this needs (from EU perspective) another round of lawsuits to get this overthrown again - since the oversight by the US DoC is laughable.
That is not only unethical that is also illegal in some countries.
Also, this is the reason why you should have FB platform a) turned off and b) disallow that your friends "bring your data with them when they use apps".
Yes. And there are tons of other startups and probably also YC companies involved in heavy scraping, aggregating and selling that information to other folks.
Thanks for all the insights about the Tomahawks. What OP is refering to is cheaper, smaller and therefore in much more numbers deployable fighting drones. Each and every anti-missile site, be it fixed or portable has it's limits on what they can defend against.
I also assume that OP was refering to drones that could go through current missile defence systems because they can't be easily identified, neither visually nor with radar.
Yes, we (or at least you guys in the US) had them in the form of expensive, capable systems, but not at a smaller, cheaper or whatnot scale.
Also, can't Tomahawk launches not be detected by a some signatures they emit? I assume that modern mil space radar systems are able to do that.
For a few hundred dollars, someone will make the drones self aware with pre planned routings along optically recognizable waypoints. No more need for a comms channel.
If your system is one of those 10% and if your trading algo is executing fucked up trades because of timing issues and you lose real money - I wouldn't call that exaggerated.
Also, not sure if any of the systems mentioned in the article run JS for critical server side code.
Yea I know, morale is a difficult topic these days.