with all the layers (rf, netmgt, etc) in a 'phone' these days, its 100% impossible for any of us normal folks to fully secure these things.
I have not even tried; given up before trying. I know better. there are carrier layers and layers that even the first few support folks can't get to. layers the vendors put in, and there might be some blobs that even THEY don't get access to.
whole thing is a shit stink mess.
I never install apps unless absolutely necessary. never do anything 'important' on phones and treat them as if each one is perma-keylogging me. that's the only way to work with them - to assume they are thru-and-thru compromised.
which, really, they are. no matter what you fanboys think.
all phones are under government (and other orgs) control. horse has left the barn.
such a shame. pocket computers were a cool concept, but we lost the right to own our own computers and even desktops are becoming owned by others who will never tell you that they have access to your stuff.
depressing to see this down-side of what humanity lowers itself to.
aliens should just nuke us from orbit. its the only way to be sure.
I don't follow; if the server is returned, it will be wiped and reloaded.
any isp would do that.
so what's the issue? the police can't just put it back on the air again. if they do, its fraud (not that any cop cares about breaking laws, these days...)
what I don't understand is: what gives the police the right to grab a whole server, when its only 1 customer they are after?
that's huge over-reach.
some day, we need to take control of our world and stop the authoritarians who seem to think all property belongs to THEM instead of the actual owners.
I worked at DEC back when cdrom was just coming out (DEC had a server called 'infoserver' that would be a bank of cdrom drives you could mount and get data from; back in late 80's, early 90's).
we had requests from customers to OMIT the vol control and front TRS jack so that music could not easily be played using those drives. the customers were 'afraid' their worker bees might be enjoying their work-time too much by endulging in some music while they work. DEC saw dollar signs and said 'sure! we'll let you treat your workers like shit. no problem!'. sigh.
wonder who those customers were? we (engineering) were not told, just that it had to be removed from the product for 'some customers'.
you and many others may think so. maybe you are right.
but maybe, just maybe, its all a scam and totally owned by the government as a way to get around *direct* spying on citizens.
google, MS and even apple included. to be a big player in the US, you have to follow some rules, especially the ones you will never read about or be able to point to in print.
we're in a post-snowden understanding of things; and yet there is still so much more that we don't know about the reality of our world. power brokers run up and down at all levels and to believe that this is a 'happy, shiney world' is just so last-century.
hardware vendors (intel, amd, etc) also have to play along. intel's ME crap is yet another spying tech that regular people are not allowed to know much about.
we do live in a mixed world. lots of good people who have good intentions. but equally, lots of people much like the ones who 'like to see the world burn' and that includes bad guys on 'both sides' of some imaginary line.
I don't believe for a second that the huge players have not bent over and done whatever the US government wanted, in order to have an 'easier way' to continue to make their billions and live essentially tax-free and with full protection and support of the government. such a cozy relationship. but you and I don't get to play; its only for the big corps and those in the elite groups.
I'm no BD expert but I was under the impression that a 'kill list' can be present in media and there is no need to have a network connection to have things be invalidated (media and even equip!). simply by PLAYING a disc, you run the risk of having things that worked yesterday, not work today.
I never bought a bd player by choice (one came with a laptop I had no choice in) and I won't support that standard. its evil to to the corp (SIC intended).
perhaps you have also just described the cyclical nature of the entire universe, including what the big bang (our local one) was. on a cosmic scale, of course.
these bga's really scare me. so fragile and so unworkable from a tech POV. I can rework square flat packs but I can't do bga's. I hate them since they are just not really repair-friendly, not to mention its not inspection-friendly.
flat packs with leads flex and bend. bga's are a fucking abortion, especially if they are at all big, in chip size.
that's not correct. sgi renamed to sgi while it was still in mtn view. they changed their logo (lost that very cool cube icon) and their logo and name were shortened to sgi. after that they were never again silicon graphics.
I worked for SGI in mtn view a few years before their demise.
one of the funnest places I was ever at. such a shame to see them go. even worse to think that google (puke!) took their campus over and its now run by ad-men, so to speak.
not to mention that traffic around shoreline area is a nightmare, all the way up rt 101 for several miles. thanks again, google;(
sgi had class and created some stellar products. sadly, they went down a dark side with the WBT project (internally called 'wintel box thing' their x86 systems running modified NT and no BIOS).
but wow, working at sgi was so much fun. silicon valley used to be cool. now, its a fucking sweat shop for h1b's and 'social media' companies (double puke).
I use win7 for windows based things. I almost never have it access a public network, if I can help it.
I have turned off updates a year ago or more; when the ftdi-gate first happened, I gave up trusting any MS updates. with win10 madness, I was reassured my decision was still valid.
win7 is fine and if you avoid the bad patches and ignore updates, PLUS you stay the full off the internet and use linux or some other safer os to do online stuff, 'support' from MS is now meaningless.
I won't ever take another MS update. that ship has sailed. but again, I am careful not to put my machine online; which really was always the smart way to deal with windows.
oh, mr. gov - if you think the right of citizens to have privacy in comms is wrong, you go first, you asswipe SOB! lets see all your pillow talk and all your chatter, first. lets do that for, oh, say 5 years. lets see if anything bad happens in this testcase.
but you go first, since you are SO SURE its good for the world and society.
wait - what's that? you don't think 'little people' rules apply to you?
info leaking is info leakage. even simple things may betray you.
the proper way to deal with modern life: you have to convince me WHY I should have to give you about about me. its not the other way around; anyone asking 'why NOT give me that info?' is an evil sonofabitch and does not deserve the time of day, in fact.
the rich are terribly addicted to power and control of fellow man.
I'd like to see a war on rich sociopaths. humanity would move up several degrees if we redistributed the weath these assholes are hoarding.
the middle and lower classes don't have life as good and so they endulge in things that numb the pain of life.
don't blame them. blame the ones who perpetually insist on having a lower class, and pushing us all down there, more and more over time.
there are many wars in classist societies. the war on 'drugs' is a false one and is a distraction to keep us from thinking of how much the 'haves' have. equalize things and stop insisting that people who like things you don't like should be put in prison.
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with all the layers (rf, netmgt, etc) in a 'phone' these days, its 100% impossible for any of us normal folks to fully secure these things.
I have not even tried; given up before trying. I know better. there are carrier layers and layers that even the first few support folks can't get to. layers the vendors put in, and there might be some blobs that even THEY don't get access to.
whole thing is a shit stink mess.
I never install apps unless absolutely necessary. never do anything 'important' on phones and treat them as if each one is perma-keylogging me. that's the only way to work with them - to assume they are thru-and-thru compromised.
which, really, they are. no matter what you fanboys think.
all phones are under government (and other orgs) control. horse has left the barn.
such a shame. pocket computers were a cool concept, but we lost the right to own our own computers and even desktops are becoming owned by others who will never tell you that they have access to your stuff.
depressing to see this down-side of what humanity lowers itself to.
aliens should just nuke us from orbit. its the only way to be sure.
I don't follow; if the server is returned, it will be wiped and reloaded.
any isp would do that.
so what's the issue? the police can't just put it back on the air again. if they do, its fraud (not that any cop cares about breaking laws, these days...)
what I don't understand is: what gives the police the right to grab a whole server, when its only 1 customer they are after?
that's huge over-reach.
some day, we need to take control of our world and stop the authoritarians who seem to think all property belongs to THEM instead of the actual owners.
have to do the needful to know how many softwares it will take to change a lightbulb.
I worked at DEC back when cdrom was just coming out (DEC had a server called 'infoserver' that would be a bank of cdrom drives you could mount and get data from; back in late 80's, early 90's).
we had requests from customers to OMIT the vol control and front TRS jack so that music could not easily be played using those drives. the customers were 'afraid' their worker bees might be enjoying their work-time too much by endulging in some music while they work. DEC saw dollar signs and said 'sure! we'll let you treat your workers like shit. no problem!'. sigh.
wonder who those customers were? we (engineering) were not told, just that it had to be removed from the product for 'some customers'.
And why not? Facebook exists to make money.
you and many others may think so. maybe you are right.
but maybe, just maybe, its all a scam and totally owned by the government as a way to get around *direct* spying on citizens.
google, MS and even apple included. to be a big player in the US, you have to follow some rules, especially the ones you will never read about or be able to point to in print.
we're in a post-snowden understanding of things; and yet there is still so much more that we don't know about the reality of our world. power brokers run up and down at all levels and to believe that this is a 'happy, shiney world' is just so last-century.
hardware vendors (intel, amd, etc) also have to play along. intel's ME crap is yet another spying tech that regular people are not allowed to know much about.
we do live in a mixed world. lots of good people who have good intentions. but equally, lots of people much like the ones who 'like to see the world burn' and that includes bad guys on 'both sides' of some imaginary line.
I don't believe for a second that the huge players have not bent over and done whatever the US government wanted, in order to have an 'easier way' to continue to make their billions and live essentially tax-free and with full protection and support of the government. such a cozy relationship. but you and I don't get to play; its only for the big corps and those in the elite groups.
a PAIR of cd players?
did each one have exactly one channel broken? what are the chances of that happening?
I'm no BD expert but I was under the impression that a 'kill list' can be present in media and there is no need to have a network connection to have things be invalidated (media and even equip!). simply by PLAYING a disc, you run the risk of having things that worked yesterday, not work today.
I never bought a bd player by choice (one came with a laptop I had no choice in) and I won't support that standard. its evil to to the corp (SIC intended).
its high speed fiber. ie, fiber run at high speed.
ever see those lawn things that cut those green stalks that appear outside on some areas of the earth? those use high speed fiber.
looks very dangerous to me. I go nowhere near them.
it was always just a shell of shell anyway
sounds somewhat russian, to me. I don't trust it.
perhaps you have also just described the cyclical nature of the entire universe, including what the big bang (our local one) was. on a cosmic scale, of course.
control-alt-f12 defrosts. its pretty sweet, really.
"you're soldering it wrong"
isn't that what nvidia said?
these bga's really scare me. so fragile and so unworkable from a tech POV. I can rework square flat packs but I can't do bga's. I hate them since they are just not really repair-friendly, not to mention its not inspection-friendly.
flat packs with leads flex and bend. bga's are a fucking abortion, especially if they are at all big, in chip size.
because...reasons.
now pick up that can, citizen.
that's not correct. sgi renamed to sgi while it was still in mtn view. they changed their logo (lost that very cool cube icon) and their logo and name were shortened to sgi. after that they were never again silicon graphics.
I worked for SGI in mtn view a few years before their demise.
one of the funnest places I was ever at. such a shame to see them go. even worse to think that google (puke!) took their campus over and its now run by ad-men, so to speak.
not to mention that traffic around shoreline area is a nightmare, all the way up rt 101 for several miles. thanks again, google ;(
sgi had class and created some stellar products. sadly, they went down a dark side with the WBT project (internally called 'wintel box thing' their x86 systems running modified NT and no BIOS).
but wow, working at sgi was so much fun. silicon valley used to be cool. now, its a fucking sweat shop for h1b's and 'social media' companies (double puke).
find their cable plant and stick pins in their gigabit ethernet cables.
then ask again if they will give you a refund.
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I use win7 for windows based things. I almost never have it access a public network, if I can help it.
I have turned off updates a year ago or more; when the ftdi-gate first happened, I gave up trusting any MS updates. with win10 madness, I was reassured my decision was still valid.
win7 is fine and if you avoid the bad patches and ignore updates, PLUS you stay the full off the internet and use linux or some other safer os to do online stuff, 'support' from MS is now meaningless.
I won't ever take another MS update. that ship has sailed. but again, I am careful not to put my machine online; which really was always the smart way to deal with windows.
I see some french brands, in there.
no wonder that some cars, uhhhh, surrender so easily.
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let them punch my windows. in my whole life, I've never seen a FIST break a window. I think you are full of shit, my friend.
power windows and power door locks are a GOOD SAFETY FEATURE.
ever drive thru a bad area?
then you'll understand.
we can only hope, this proposal, like french culture overall, "SURRENDERS"
(yes, that's a meme. but somewhat deserved, in fact. france has done many things correctly, but this one is straight-out wrong)
hahaha!
right you are.
that should be a common battle cry.
oh, mr. gov - if you think the right of citizens to have privacy in comms is wrong, you go first, you asswipe SOB! lets see all your pillow talk and all your chatter, first. lets do that for, oh, say 5 years. lets see if anything bad happens in this testcase.
but you go first, since you are SO SURE its good for the world and society.
wait - what's that? you don't think 'little people' rules apply to you?
ah, you have just shown your hand.
go fuck yourself.
BINGO!
give that man a virtual cigar or beer.
info leaking is info leakage. even simple things may betray you.
the proper way to deal with modern life: you have to convince me WHY I should have to give you about about me. its not the other way around; anyone asking 'why NOT give me that info?' is an evil sonofabitch and does not deserve the time of day, in fact.
kansas surely is at the point of know return. sort of a dust in the wind kind of state, if you will.
the rich are terribly addicted to power and control of fellow man.
I'd like to see a war on rich sociopaths. humanity would move up several degrees if we redistributed the weath these assholes are hoarding.
the middle and lower classes don't have life as good and so they endulge in things that numb the pain of life.
don't blame them. blame the ones who perpetually insist on having a lower class, and pushing us all down there, more and more over time.
there are many wars in classist societies. the war on 'drugs' is a false one and is a distraction to keep us from thinking of how much the 'haves' have. equalize things and stop insisting that people who like things you don't like should be put in prison.