"15 years ago" is funny, because Siri couldn't even do either of those functions on desktop 7 years ago [1]. It's crazy how they've managed to do nothing with a winning hand.
It's also not just her wealth but her personality. For better or for worse, someone as headstrong as her attracts a certain type of person, and the article showed that even her own husband was afraid of getting involved...
> Bi’s husband focused on stabilizing the family, a move he credits with saving their marriage. He blamed the hospital, not Smith, but told me that the litigation is “her grieving process.” He tried to stay out of the legal stuff so that Bi couldn’t blame him too.
I honestly feel bad for the family, because I've heard many stories about this type of familial dynamic from children who grew up inside them...
Whoops, I linked the wrong comment. I meant to link this one [1]. Anyway, seems like there's potentially a whole trail of compromised and fake accounts [2]. Someone in a government agency somewhere is pretty disappointed right now.
What type of confirmation do you want? The documents aren't going to be declassified in the next couple of decades, if ever.
I've never heard anyone claim that Dual_EC_DRBG is most likely not intentionally backdoored, but there's literally no way to confirm because of how its written. If we can't analyze intention from the code, we can look at the broader context for clues. The NSA spent an unusual amount of effort trying to push forward an algorithm that kept getting shot down because it was slower than similar algorithms with no additional benefits (the $10 million deal specified it as a requirement [1]). If you give the NSA the benefit of the doubt, they spent a lot of time and money to... intentionally slow down random number generation?!
As an American, I'd prefer a competent NSA than an incompetent NSA that spends my tax dollars to make technology worse for literally no benefit...
Given the details from another comment [1], it sounds like both maintainers are suspicious. Lasse's behavior has changed recently, and he's been pushing to get Jia Tan's changes into the Linux kernel. It's possible both accounts aren't even run by the original Lasse Collin and Jia Tan anymore.
Edit: Also, Github has suspended both accounts. Perhaps they know something we don't.
FWIW, it's from an AI chatbot company.
https://twitter.com/theo/status/2048628814755012945