IANAL either, but there's a difference between not falling into a trap and deceiving the authorities. To continue the analogy, it would be more akin to telling the officer that you're willing to offer services if he meets you at a different street corner with the intention of fleeing later.
1) makes sense if Levandowski did it over the company internet connection. There could be a record of his unusual requests (software download, software update).
> they can infer that he wiped it
For 4), Levandowski reformatted the hard drive before returning it, so there's no inference there.
I feel like "biological Turing test" is a bit clickbaity. Bacteria aren't going to make cognitive decisions. In my mind, being able to communicate back and forth with bacteria is more akin to unlocking the bacterial API. It's still noteworthy nonetheless.
There are 250 million neurons in the corpus callosum, each with a diameter on the order of microns. Individually, each one transmits a very primitive signal (think biological bit) that doesn't mean much without the other millions of neurons. It's extremely complex and thus extremely frail. If the cut halves on both sides don't line up exactly, you have the equivalent of static. You wouldn't mash two cut ends of normal data cables together, and there are only on the order of 100 "neurons" there.
What you say is theoretically possible if the neurons weren't living cells and humans had the technology to reconstruct the brain's wirings. Your body isn't going to figure out which "wire" connects to which on its own.
"When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia"
What version of Silicon Valley is this?
"Ascend, an Asian-American professional organization based in New York, found that although 27 percent of professionals working at those companies are Asian or Asian-American, fewer than 19 percent of managers, and just under 14 percent of executives, are." [1]
I'm not using the service either, but I noticed this comment [1]. It's not the first time that a DNS server has been DDoS-ed, so it has been discussed before (e.g. [2]). At minimum, I would expect a company that exists for scenarios like this to have more than one DNS server. Staying up when half of existing DNS servers are down is a new problem that no one has faced yet, but this is an old, solved one.
From what I know of the situation (don't trust me, I'm not going to offer citations or sources), this attack wasn't particularly large in terms of gigabits/second. It was, however, very large in terms of economic impact.
I would assume that when a large number of big enterprise-y things go down, HSI takes notice. When other providers get attacks that are 20x larger (gbit/sec), but have much less widespread impact and impact on less enterprise-y things, they don't care so much.
