Wow, so naive. The Third Reich was established in 1933, WW2 started in 1939. It didn't have time to invent much or to build industry anew. 90% of the technology came from US - directly from US government or through companies like Standard Oil and Ford. Thousands of factories got sold on the cheap in the US after the Great Recession started and all the equipment moved to Germany. A process quite similar to the outsourcing of the last 25 years or so.
It will target as wide a group as possible. It`s just a small backdoor, that lets the agency that should not be named to install a full rootkit at will.
That doesn't surprise me. Google and the hacker/startup community have vastly different and often opposing interests.
In the end Google is the biggest advertising agency in the world. Advertising makes money by pushing people to make irrational choices - buy products and services that they don't need; buy from the vendor with bigger marketing budget, rather than superior engineering; overspend on stuff they need - e.g. cars, etc.
Well people are sending suspicious files to the AV vendors all the time, so Symantec may have found the backdoor a lot later and then found it existing in their DBs.
Interesting - what are the high barriers to starting a business in Europe?
AFAIK most countries in EU have higher unemployment benefits and other social protections than US (many ppl live on benefits while starting a business). People who say leave a mega corp to do a starup still have health insurance. Registering a company take a few hours. Most countries have all kinds of tax subsidies for the founders, investors and employees of new businesses.
Yield, foreach, LINQ all have many similar problems, compared to a for loop, but nonetheless greatly increase productivity. Given a little time, the devs will learn to use async properly.
C# await is a low level level construct that you can use to efficiently implement coroutines. The opposite is not true. Anders&Co designed a tool that has some rough edges (compared to say F# async computation expressions), but compiles to a small amount of low overhead Task operations.
Interesting. I studied low at Harvard for two years in the middle 80s. Around 75% of my colleagues were from "yacht club" families. Maybe the things have changed since.
Nobody is innocent. The government has enemies both internal and external.