Google has been systematically moving stuff out of the open-source part of Android and into proprietary areas for some time now. They’re making it harder and harder for anyone to make a working Android OS that isn’t full of closed-source Google spyware. For now these projects survive, but Google is clearly hostile to them.

Small government = “Don’t tax me to do things that benefit society as a whole including minorities.”

Free speech = “No one should be allowed to say anything mean to men when I spew hateful speech towards minorities.”

2nd amendment = “I should be allowed to shoot minorities without repercussions.”

Etc.

It’s clearly a risk, but if you have dozens of accounts and passwords it’s hard to come up with a feasible alternative.

It doesn’t say what they’re planning to do about laws requiring age verification. It says they’re forming a group to figure that out. The problem with bad legislation is you can’t just ignore it, so they need to at least work out an approach. In itself this news is neutral, but we’ll have to see what they decide.

If you don’t have to use your passwords from multiple locations, your hints are intelligible only to you, and you don’t leave the paper anywhere too obvious, this isn’t a bad solution.

Google has forgotten how to do competition.

It probably refers to advances in AI-driven surveillance on behalf of the US Government.

Amazon, Microsoft and Google run so much cloud infrastructure that it’s not in the power of ordinary peasants like us to even make a dent in their business. When we use pretty much anything online we’re helping support them. And US corporations have little incentive to leave those services because the end users don’t even know what they use for their backends. Foreign governments and companies are the main organizations that have the power to make an impact on big US tech by taking their cloud business elsewhere.

I think a “threat” is just anyone who isn’t paying Trump enough protection money.

I think they mean whoever the next fascist is to become President once Trump is gone.

Yes, although it sounds like they haven’t finished fixing some of them:

All issues have been addressed by Bitwarden. Seven of which have been resolved or are in active remediation by the Bitwarden team. The remaining three issues have been accepted as intentional design decisions necessary for product functionality.

Edit: There’s more information about the specific threats and remediation steps in the PDF report linked at the end of the Bitwarden blog post:

https://bitwarden.com/assets/Kki4W785JIPOdFj6EeWB5/1e74e924febb4c6a5ad03eed23b92d23/pwmgr_paper__1_-combinedÂ__1_.pdf

Well the specific point here is that these companies claim that a server hack won’t reveal your passwords since they’re encrypted and decrypted on your local device so the server only sees the encrypted version. Apparently this isn’t completely true.

Well they have interests in common.

Why would they? It’s by far their biggest market. This is capitalism working as designed: sell to the companies running datacenters, then you and they can make money by renting computing resources at a premium to the peasants, and by spying on those peasants as they use it.

Don’t forget RAM.

I’m thinking it’s the former.

The latter?

“Russia has a tremendous interest and focus in the Arctic,” Paul Lynd, assistant director at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), told the foreign affairs committee on Thursday. “However, they are of less concern than, say, the activities of China and other hostile state actors at this time.”

Hmm, I wonder who those others could be.

What did Satan ever do to deserve that kind of punishment?

They’re ignoring the law though. They’ll go after whoever they feel like attacking.

Well that’s disappointing.