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[โ€“] 01189998819991197253 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hahaha!! That's an awesome response hahahaha

[โ€“] 01189998819991197253 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I reread that quote (in context) many times, and I've concluded that it was a poor choice of words. He meant "latest". He was talking about Windows 10, the latest Windows OS, in a time where XP, 8, 8.1, Vista, and 7 were still maintained to some degree. I wish so much that Win10 would have been the last Windows OS...

[โ€“] 01189998819991197253 11 points 2 years ago

This is a very very good answer, and perfectly portrays my feelings, as well.

[โ€“] 01189998819991197253 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Social engineering is, after all, a form of hacking. Although... is social engineering an AI considered social engineering, since the AI isn't actually socializing? That's a question for later, I guess.

[โ€“] 01189998819991197253 23 points 2 years ago (6 children)

The fact that it provides an incomplete list of 5 streaming services and calls them "affordable", despite the need for the user to have more than 3 of them if they want to actually have access to a reasonable amount of watchably good media, is one of the main reasons that piracy has increased to pre-Netflix days, and the corpos don't want to understand this fact.

[โ€“] 01189998819991197253 1 points 2 years ago

Definitely with a cigar in your mouth. Maybe with a signature look of superiority, as well hahahaha

[โ€“] 01189998819991197253 2 points 2 years ago

They removed google but added their own state spyware. If you block the phone from phoning home (with Tracker Control, for example), the phone will still collect and save (into a user-inaccessible part of the phone) all those metrics, and eventually die, since it can't store any more. I got 6 months out of my Chinese phone, before it filled up its metrics memory and automatically shut down permanently.

[โ€“] 01189998819991197253 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

damn, that mash looks tasty!

[โ€“] 01189998819991197253 3 points 2 years ago

It's a very weird place to go on fire!

[โ€“] 01189998819991197253 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I would categorize it as working "quite well". At least not in my experience. It's better than nothing.

[โ€“] 01189998819991197253 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

nincompoop

Now there's a term I haven't heard in a hot minute haha

[โ€“] 01189998819991197253 2 points 2 years ago

Really good points from here:

The "many eyes" theory is dead since the NSA backdoor in OpenSSL clearly showed how delusional that belief is. SELinux has never been audited by any trustworthy truly US-independent entity, making it nearly as untrustworthy as closed source. On top of that, there is always The Underhanded C Contest, proving that looking at the source is not enough. You need to be an expert who can detect underhanded backdoors too. โ€“ Evi1M4chine Feb 3, 2018 at 13:05

I don't think the NSA's official mission is a good reason to believe it wouldn't add backdoors. The agency considers American citizens to be adversaries, not beneficiaries of its operations. โ€“ augurar Oct 21, 2014 at 4:23

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