Anything russia is capable of, that scares america, is promoted by the american administration since, well, that is there job security, ie, saving you from the enemy.
Maybe its fake news, but the money to be made from validating it, ie converting public money into a private monet, is to good an opportunity to refuse.
At the near-height of the Cold War, the US had a spy called Adolf Tolkachev. He has - somewhat romantically - been called the "Billion dollar spy", because he handed over strategically important information about Russian military capabilities (RADAR ceilings and the like). This allowed the US to change course, and spend the money on the right things. He was later betrayed by Aldrich Ames and/or Robert Hanssen.
Your governments have been reading your facebook messages, sms, logging telephone calls forever.
This attack on encryption is attempt by the governments to suggest that somehow facebook is actually your friend and has some weight in protecting you. Facebook is losing dominance on the access of your communications, and your government wants you back on facebook where its contractors monetise it most with the least amount of effort. The security contracts need to maintain high ROI, otherwise they will lobby for more of your tax money in the name of security.
Software patents ensure that every major software supplier in the world is an American controlled company. Not awarding the patent claim would be a threat against American national security.
I only hire people who can reliably estimate. How can you call yourself a pythonista if you cant reliably estimate. Incompetent estimators have no place in my organisation.
These estimators don't exist. Such a reliable estimator has more incentive to use his ability to estimate tech stock prices and become rich rather then work for you.
In fact hearing this line, no one will work for you. Frame it and make it your motto, see what happens.
They sort of do though. As hyperpallium alluded to above, the trick is to vastly overestimate the time required, then let Parkinson's law take up the slack.
Thats why the politicians and there henchmen need more secret powers to middle man facebook, doh i mean, police facebook, you know, just in case the Russians and the Chinese are influencing your vote for trump
