that is excellent news

Looks like a few of my friends at Fortinet (a Check Point competitor) were reorganized out of a job…

The reality is, the economics don't allow for more to be paid. Advertising revenues aren't nearly what they used to be. Yes, I've been peripherally involved with this since 1999. Even worked for a blog farm in 2007 briefly and realized: there was no money in this.

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It's pretty simple: you're a gaijin and they think they know better.

tell them: ok, single core VMs with 1gb of RAM.

I'm shocked they're not trying to give you Windows Server 2008 machines. :P

good point.

something like that. Personally I trust Apple more than a random hacker, but that's just me. :P

I've seen plenty of organizations with decent security tools but shit people and/or shit process. You can guess the result. :P

this phone does have some hardware issues (like a screen repair I tried to do that went badly, and possibly a wonky battery) so I wouldn't necessarily use my experience as a reason not to upgrade.

One reason to definitely upgrade: a specially crafted picture message (either MMS or iMessage) can pwn your device if you're not running iOS 9.3.3.