Day: February 10, 2018, 9:20 PM

Strat

Chill Regular-ass Post

If I am ever hiring anyone for a business strategist, I will ask them, “Why do you think that Google forced HTTPS to be used?”

If they get that wrong, if they blather on about being “helpful,” they obviously are not a good business strategist and I will not hire them. No business does anything to be helpful. Never. This is not a thing. That people can believe this is astounding.

If my prospective strategist answers even with a simple, “They must have done it to help their business and to harm their competitors,” then I will likely hire them.

About this, as I guess as there are about many things, there are some very powerfully stupid people with some equally stupid ideas about how the world and how business works.

Mart

Chill Regular-ass Post

Though I believe smartphones are a net negative for the world, I remember in 2007 when the iPhone was released the most common conclusion that I saw online was that the Steve Jobs demo of the iPhone was fake, as no such device was possible.

This was the received wisdom, though now, as with most things that happened but to most people “never happened,” hardly anyone recalls it.

For all of Apple’s flaws, saying that they don’t create innovative products — well, they are one of the few companies you can’t actually say that about.

Though to be fair, like nearly every tech company, they relied 80% on government-funded research and development to achieve anything at all.

PS HTTPS

Chill Uncategorized

Another reason for the HTTPS push is to lock users out of setting up their own infrastructure at home that is not cloud-connected. If it’s not capable of being spied on/monitored, it is useless to the Googles, Firefoxes, and other ad delivery platforms of the world.

Since it’s impossible to obtain a valid TLS cert for a local connection, this means that any non-cloud-connected device will be marked insecure by Firefox, Chrome, etc. By marking anything that has a self-signed cert insecure (which goes along with this HTTPS push), and making it impossible for TLS to work, this deliberately and maliciously breaks anything that doesn’t have a constant external connection. Thus, it’ll then require any configuration (even if the device sits in your home) to be done via some cloud service.

You think this breaking of devices is accidental?

Nope, it is a strategy. A deliberate and obvious one. Obvious if you aren’t morons like John Scalzi and his affirmational choir.

It’s really odd but predictable too that on Scalzi’s cloyingly mediocre site and other similar pseudo-intellectual habitats that I’ve been called a paranoiac for voicing opinions that the frenzied push to HTTPS is being done for anything other than altruistic, benevolent reasons by Google, etc. Why these self-avowed liberals trust that large monopolistic or near-monopolistic companies have their best interests in mind, I have no goddamn idea. It makes no sense at all. I assume it’s just easier than thinking, which pseudo-intellectuals in particular are averse to.

Next up from a delusional liberal near you: how the NSA and CIA are really just fuzzy little puppies who only want to lick your face and cutely attempt to navigate the stairs.