ServerAliveInterval 120
  ServerAliveCountMax 30
  TCPKeepAlive yes

If you have a system where, as I understand it, the main point is to check who is standing in front of your door, and that system now is one automatic update away from dipping into your bank account... How long until the police departments figure out that donations to a specific company could be very profitable?

Also, why do you think that it is better to not change the root password? It sounds like a very suspicious recommendation.

Now there are much worse cases out there, sure. But most Swiss citizens are not even aware of those laws.

Nor are they aware of how much the Swiss government has been trying to hide its incompetence regarding anything IT-related. Like data leaks happening several times per year.

So yes, a big percentage of those almost 50% of "no we don't want this" responses were about lack of trust in the different branches of the government.

As an aside, and in a different, "Python Removal Agent" is certainly a worthy title for any of us.

Conversation instead of anonymous bashing would be appreciated.

Unless you have no good arguments, so I dare you, random aggressive strangers, I triple dare you!

Snap is how abrupt those changes between accelerations are. If you accelerate a bit, and then suddenly the light turns orange and you floor it, and the turbo kicks in, and your passengers go "woaaaaaah going to need a barf baaaaag" for example, it was probably not very smooth.

Sometimes instead of linear accelerations, those concepts can be easier to understand as changes in angular motions. You're on a curve of a certain radius, and suddenly the radius changes. The change is the jerk. How sudden the change happens is the snap.

There are - currently - three-hUndred-and--fifty-seven -- people - inthequeue. Please wait

I wonder how far back this has been going on. Did ICQ, IRC server hosters, BBSes do similar things?

Having had to deal with some clients with slightly sensitive data, I wish. Photocopies and printed screenshots lying around in the open, CC data copy-pasted manually to other fields or to generic excel sheets because otherwise "it disappears and we can't book late fees" etc. Not even only the "random third-party" companies vetted and specialised in ID verification, but then they get a new support contract down the road, and a fourth- or fifth-party agent who had the cheapest offer now has remote admin access to those desktops.

Probability is low, true. But all it takes is one compromised access.

We all choose our battles probably.

One might argue that a stone mason or a miner has less left of his body after 40 years of work.

Office work is slightly kinder to the body, although even here one reads worrying studies.

But when you're 12, nothing of that matters really.