* Posts by Matthew Smith 3

2 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2009

Ten reasons why you shouldn't buy an iPhone 5

Matthew Smith 3

Walled-garden business model

Buying a Swiss Army Knife encourages a walled-garden business model.

Big deal.

As for the other points made in this article, they are mostly irrelevant to most people in the world.

Also the subject matter is quite yawnsome.

Pirate Bay launches encrypted private network

Matthew Smith 3

Being made illegal...

@The Original Ash

Who says it can't be made illegal? Who says that governments cannot impose the requirement for corporations to own a trust certificate authenticated to a governmental CA for SSL communications, say 5 years from down the line?

The political will on the part of governments - invariably influenced by large corporations - is certainly there, if not the technical will...