Nokia is an empty shell, zombie puppet company controlled by Microsoft. They have been running into the ground for some time now. They have no future. They are an asset being spent to push Microsoft agenda.
Yes, Microsoft is full steam ahead on astroturfing and sockpuppeting. It's their new marketing strategy, as bribing "influencers" didn't work out so well.
Next in line is probably extortion when everyone refuses to accept the Windows 8 lockdown.
What will it take to stop this pit of evil madness M$ has become lately?
Never thought I will say this but here goes: Bill Gates, you were such a nice, reasonable guy! We miss you!
They probably think they can get away with it, because it's not their employees collecting the information, it's their computers/software that is doing it. They collect all the information, they just "don't look at it". When someone is flagged, they have years and years of pre-recorded surveillance on him and everyone he has ever communicated with. Very convenient right? How is that not a dragnet?
Problem with backdoors is, the insecurity points both ways - you can't have it secure just for you and insecure for others.
Once you put the backdoors into everything, they are there, ready to be misused against everyone, including you, whatever noble puropse you thought they were to initially serve.
Thinking nobody will find out is delusional. This will not end well:(
Watch them equal economic interests with national security interests and unleash the great tools they have at their disposal when "national security" is involved.
Yes, black operations and all.
It seems Microsoft is working hard on innovating themselves out of the market... they seem to have confused "different" with "innovative".. Windows 8 will be... different
If you want privacy, webmail is not a viable replacement at all. Anything that is not end to end encryption is insecure and will be compromised these days. And in the current climate of everyone spying on you no external party can be trusted, they will just give access to anyone that asks and has money or can threaten them in any way.
So tell me, what free / open source alternatives are there with full S/MIME support and where root certificates are under your full control?
It's not a matter of how bad WP7 is, it's who is offering it.
Given what Microsoft did in the past, who would let them monopolize and screw up another technology segment?
No thank you, no sane person would touch it with a stick!
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Nokia is an empty shell, zombie puppet company controlled by Microsoft. They have been running into the ground for some time now. They have no future. They are an asset being spent to push Microsoft agenda.
Is this an attempt by Microsoft to fragment the Raspberry Pi platform?
They already did. It's called Windows 8! Lay back and watch the Embrace phase on the hacker culture. Extend, Exterminate to follow shortly :)
That's what is worrying me, especially the programming part. My prediction is total failure due to a stupid software bug.
You are naive. It only takes a few bytes of known plaintext to get your key.
SYS 64738 :)
Yes, Microsoft is full steam ahead on astroturfing and sockpuppeting. It's their new marketing strategy, as bribing "influencers" didn't work out so well. Next in line is probably extortion when everyone refuses to accept the Windows 8 lockdown. What will it take to stop this pit of evil madness M$ has become lately? Never thought I will say this but here goes: Bill Gates, you were such a nice, reasonable guy! We miss you!
They probably think they can get away with it, because it's not their employees collecting the information, it's their computers/software that is doing it. They collect all the information, they just "don't look at it". When someone is flagged, they have years and years of pre-recorded surveillance on him and everyone he has ever communicated with. Very convenient right? How is that not a dragnet?
And rightly so. They are being robbed of their fair share of profit.
Can something like this be trusted? I bet it's riddled with backdoors.
Can you do SHA512 in your head? I can't, dammit!
Next up: Most popular song lyrics added to cracklib wordlist :)
127.0.0.1 is narcist :)
I wonder what a full rupture will look like...
Problem with backdoors is, the insecurity points both ways - you can't have it secure just for you and insecure for others. Once you put the backdoors into everything, they are there, ready to be misused against everyone, including you, whatever noble puropse you thought they were to initially serve. Thinking nobody will find out is delusional. This will not end well :(
Watch them equal economic interests with national security interests and unleash the great tools they have at their disposal when "national security" is involved. Yes, black operations and all.
It seems Microsoft is working hard on innovating themselves out of the market... they seem to have confused "different" with "innovative".. Windows 8 will be... different
Of course on a properly managed system, also on Windows, such a USB stick will do nothing.
Because all the USB ports are filled with glue.
Holography
Laser ranging
Ignition in modern engines
Point to point communication
Missile guidance systems
You obviously haven't heard of encrypted email (S/MIME and PGP). You have nothing to hide right? Move along citizen.
If you want privacy, webmail is not a viable replacement at all. Anything that is not end to end encryption is insecure and will be compromised these days. And in the current climate of everyone spying on you no external party can be trusted, they will just give access to anyone that asks and has money or can threaten them in any way. So tell me, what free / open source alternatives are there with full S/MIME support and where root certificates are under your full control?
Imagine the calculations for the lost revenues. :-)
They will not be any more ridiculous than they already are.
The united states is built upon war and thrives on war, we have been at war for most of our existence.
US still thinks war will help their economy? All the manufacturing is in china now, what will they manufacture to help economy - lawsuits?
It's not a matter of how bad WP7 is, it's who is offering it. Given what Microsoft did in the past, who would let them monopolize and screw up another technology segment? No thank you, no sane person would touch it with a stick!
In memory database and ACID? More like ACIohshitpowerwentoff