"Most secure since" does not mean it is secure. Just that it is more secure thann what came before.
Say on a scale of 1-100 that Win95 was 1 secure and Win98 was 2 secure and Win8 was 15 secure and this one is 16 secure, it is indeed the most secure one. Not secure, most secure.
And that is all without knowing how the security is measured. Is the securety level stable over the lifespan, or does it decrease with time as more faults are found, or does it stay the same?
So even though the claim is valid, it is also meaningless. It is like saying that the birthday girl is the oldest she ever was on her birthday. True, but useless info.
I have no issue of the company doing the updates and users having no control. I do blind updates on my Debian as well. The issue is that you can't turn it off. If have not done updates because I have read there where issues, so I waited two days.
So Windows tries to be too clever for its own good.
Internet also makes it a LOT easier to spread propaganda and lies and blow things way out of proportion and give people much more attention than they should have, making them sound much more important than they actually are.
I know Russian Roulette and can calculate the odds, but if you do not know the difference between a pistol and a revolver, your calculations might be a little bit off.
I seriously hope nobedy killes him, because that would make him a martyrer. What I hope that will happen is that people see that Potus is not as powerful as people thought he would be. This could the shift the focus to where the power is: Senators. And perhaps (I know this is wishful thinking) start voting on a more local level that makes a complete revamp of the political system possible, One can dream....
I think having a free and fair election would be a great idea for the USofA. Perhaps try it the next time, because there are som many things wrong with the US Election System it isn't even funny anymore. This has NOTHING to do with the outcome as BOTH where a bad choice.
Are you seriouisly thinkling that the Americans will be able to change the political system? I see it here and elsewhere time and time again how people who lived 200+ years ago get quoted as to why things NOW should be a certain way. Americans are hesitant to change to the Metric system. They are even hesitant to adapt a fully functioning verification system with credit and debit cards (Swipe+Pin) and you think they are going to look at other countries for their political system?
I can imagine that proposing a change would be seen as so un-American it will need a new word, because terrorist or communist will not cover the hate for you.
So no, there will be no change. What will be needed is a revolution (that can happen peaceful) and that will only happen if enough people know that they have nothing to say. That will happen when people will get fed up how companies determine what happens. That will happen when enough people go hungry or homeless or in other ways miserable.
Perhaps then people will not believe the words of people who are dead 200+ years and start their own change of government, just like those dead people 200+ years did.
And the real hunger will come when the US is hollowed out from the inside. Things will get worse before they get better.
This is just another form of re-writing. Does it matter if the person said we were always at war with Eurasia or that it is written? Instead of re-writing books, it is re-writing video.
Luckily there is a company that is in charge of most video and it has "do no evil" as slogan, so we are safe.
Reminds me of when the "I Love Virus" hit our company and the rest of the world. Our IT department decided to close down the company. Meaning everybody, except IT staff had to leave the building and go home. What I did was launch the dualboot BeOS and others their Linux as we got a LOT of request from other companies regarding the virus. It took us all of 2 minutes to be operational again in some sort.
We did the same when the authentication server went down and IT tried to blame it on the routers.
So having more than 1 point of failure is somehow interesting.
Let it be noted that my boss then told us that he had not seen us using any other OS besides Windows and that we should not mention it to him if we did and that he would understand if we forgot to tell him during these type of days. I have the slight impression that he knew and was just covering his ass, while protecting us. Just a hunch.
When talking about companies and security I do not believe anything. They must give proof, because I have no idea if it is marketing or the developers who tell me that it is encrypted or decrypted on the device level. Sure, I might guess that something is done, but perhaps they use a backdoor. Please give me a reason why I should trust a company or government when I want something to be kept a secret. Hint: I don't.
To me believe has no place when it comes to security and trust.
Thsi has been going on since Windows 95 at least where people complained that support ended. Nothing changed. Sure, some will start using Linux or something else. They do not care as long as the numbers are small enough. You can not have 100% of the people.The people they lose are not worth the gain they are making.
If I am a company and a small percent of the people is not happy with my prodcut, I do not mind if they go elsewhere. Because th money I would need to spend on them to keep them will not be an efficient way to spend resources.
Also understand that the end-user is not the customer of MS. The computer manufacturors are and in smaller numbers the stores that sell it to people.
And it is about sales numbers, not about retaining customers. They do not give a shit if you still run Windows 3.0. You are no longer a person that spends money, so go away.
https://amiunique.org/ So you can be tracked anyway most of thetime. Many will not even bother, but I could see e.g. Google or FB doing this. Then just once you log in and you are done for. And even if they say they don't, I will not believe them.
When do you start to brace -- at the latest point feasible or by reducing your speed to a decent level first?
... and even if you know there will be a (high velocity) impact, will you still break to reduce damage to whatever is possible or will you start to run idle or continue as you where and hope for the best or do you accelerate because fuck-it. The majority of people will try to do the first. The people who do the second or first would be considered not fit for out society and will be locked up because they are either murderers (if other people are involved) or mentally unstable or both.
They looked at the people in the poorest parts of the world who did not have FB and they die earlier. Clearly having FB is important. In the middle ages, people died younger and what did they not have? FB!
Oh, the reason my great aunt died at the age of 115 as the oldest person in the world was not cancer, it was the lack of FB.
What would be needed is that the VoIP operators do this as the Telcos don't. So a VoIP operator should get a special status where they are obliged to give the "wrong" number. This could be seen as a standard phreak where people are called and asked to press #9 and then a number, so it looks as if the call comes from within the company as all that VoIP does is forwarding a call. The scam was used to do international calls and let the company you call pay for it.
OTOH it will make it possible to buy votes where you ask people to give proof they voted for X. To everybody with any knowledge of anything the solution is pretty obvious. Paper voting. (Insert obvious reasoning why electric voting is a bad idea)
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In reality? No. Politics do not stop when you voted. It is then that it started.
"Most secure since" does not mean it is secure. Just that it is more secure thann what came before.
Say on a scale of 1-100 that Win95 was 1 secure and Win98 was 2 secure and Win8 was 15 secure and this one is 16 secure, it is indeed the most secure one. Not secure, most secure.
And that is all without knowing how the security is measured. Is the securety level stable over the lifespan, or does it decrease with time as more faults are found, or does it stay the same?
So even though the claim is valid, it is also meaningless. It is like saying that the birthday girl is the oldest she ever was on her birthday. True, but useless info.
I have no issue of the company doing the updates and users having no control. I do blind updates on my Debian as well. The issue is that you can't turn it off. If have not done updates because I have read there where issues, so I waited two days.
So Windows tries to be too clever for its own good.
Internet also makes it a LOT easier to spread propaganda and lies and blow things way out of proportion and give people much more attention than they should have, making them sound much more important than they actually are.
Being Europe, most likely they will have icons on the machine indicating if it is cash or no-cash machine.
I know Russian Roulette and can calculate the odds, but if you do not know the difference between a pistol and a revolver, your calculations might be a little bit off.
There is a difference between knowing that something is wrong and doing something about it.
And it is less secure, because if I can put these on a glove, so can somebody else.
I seriously hope nobedy killes him, because that would make him a martyrer. What I hope that will happen is that people see that Potus is not as powerful as people thought he would be. ....
This could the shift the focus to where the power is: Senators. And perhaps (I know this is wishful thinking) start voting on a more local level that makes a complete revamp of the political system possible,
One can dream
I think having a free and fair election would be a great idea for the USofA. Perhaps try it the next time, because there are som many things wrong with the US Election System it isn't even funny anymore.
This has NOTHING to do with the outcome as BOTH where a bad choice.
Not only did you survive him, he got elected a second time. I start to think all those SUVs are just a different type of short bus.
Are you seriouisly thinkling that the Americans will be able to change the political system? I see it here and elsewhere time and time again how people who lived 200+ years ago get quoted as to why things NOW should be a certain way.
Americans are hesitant to change to the Metric system. They are even hesitant to adapt a fully functioning verification system with credit and debit cards (Swipe+Pin) and you think they are going to look at other countries for their political system?
I can imagine that proposing a change would be seen as so un-American it will need a new word, because terrorist or communist will not cover the hate for you.
So no, there will be no change. What will be needed is a revolution (that can happen peaceful) and that will only happen if enough people know that they have nothing to say. That will happen when people will get fed up how companies determine what happens. That will happen when enough people go hungry or homeless or in other ways miserable.
Perhaps then people will not believe the words of people who are dead 200+ years and start their own change of government, just like those dead people 200+ years did.
And the real hunger will come when the US is hollowed out from the inside. Things will get worse before they get better.
This is just another form of re-writing. Does it matter if the person said we were always at war with Eurasia or that it is written?
Instead of re-writing books, it is re-writing video.
Luckily there is a company that is in charge of most video and it has "do no evil" as slogan, so we are safe.
This might influence the numbers, but I doubt it has any influence on the percentages.
Reading this I had State of Independence by Jon Anderson and Vangelis in my head.
Reminds me of when the "I Love Virus" hit our company and the rest of the world. Our IT department decided to close down the company. Meaning everybody, except IT staff had to leave the building and go home.
What I did was launch the dualboot BeOS and others their Linux as we got a LOT of request from other companies regarding the virus.
It took us all of 2 minutes to be operational again in some sort.
We did the same when the authentication server went down and IT tried to blame it on the routers.
So having more than 1 point of failure is somehow interesting.
Let it be noted that my boss then told us that he had not seen us using any other OS besides Windows and that we should not mention it to him if we did and that he would understand if we forgot to tell him during these type of days. I have the slight impression that he knew and was just covering his ass, while protecting us. Just a hunch.
Obviously we did not find anything on Obama. The Kenian administration is a mess. Almost as bad as the American one.
When talking about companies and security I do not believe anything. They must give proof, because I have no idea if it is marketing or the developers who tell me that it is encrypted or decrypted on the device level.
Sure, I might guess that something is done, but perhaps they use a backdoor.
Please give me a reason why I should trust a company or government when I want something to be kept a secret. Hint: I don't.
To me believe has no place when it comes to security and trust.
Thsi has been going on since Windows 95 at least where people complained that support ended. Nothing changed. Sure, some will start using Linux or something else. They do not care as long as the numbers are small enough.
You can not have 100% of the people.The people they lose are not worth the gain they are making.
If I am a company and a small percent of the people is not happy with my prodcut, I do not mind if they go elsewhere. Because th money I would need to spend on them to keep them will not be an efficient way to spend resources.
Also understand that the end-user is not the customer of MS. The computer manufacturors are and in smaller numbers the stores that sell it to people.
And it is about sales numbers, not about retaining customers. They do not give a shit if you still run Windows 3.0. You are no longer a person that spends money, so go away.
https://amiunique.org/
So you can be tracked anyway most of thetime. Many will not even bother, but I could see e.g. Google or FB doing this.
Then just once you log in and you are done for.
And even if they say they don't, I will not believe them.
Also it was only 3500 devices. To me that could mean that it is:
a) A proof of concept
b) Not a very dangerous virus
c) The IoT is pretty safe
... and even if you know there will be a (high velocity) impact, will you still break to reduce damage to whatever is possible or will you start to run idle or continue as you where and hope for the best or do you accelerate because fuck-it.
The majority of people will try to do the first. The people who do the second or first would be considered not fit for out society and will be locked up because they are either murderers (if other people are involved) or mentally unstable or both.
They looked at the people in the poorest parts of the world who did not have FB and they die earlier. Clearly having FB is important. In the middle ages, people died younger and what did they not have? FB!
Oh, the reason my great aunt died at the age of 115 as the oldest person in the world was not cancer, it was the lack of FB.
What would be needed is that the VoIP operators do this as the Telcos don't. So a VoIP operator should get a special status where they are obliged to give the "wrong" number.
This could be seen as a standard phreak where people are called and asked to press #9 and then a number, so it looks as if the call comes from within the company as all that VoIP does is forwarding a call.
The scam was used to do international calls and let the company you call pay for it.
OTOH it will make it possible to buy votes where you ask people to give proof they voted for X.
To everybody with any knowledge of anything the solution is pretty obvious. Paper voting.
(Insert obvious reasoning why electric voting is a bad idea)