Wow. I tried to post serious contentions that I seen about this issue and I get knocked down for trolling, when in fact I wasn't trying to troll. Trolling isn't something I do here.
Let me see if I can clarify it in a way that won't come off as trollish:
First: I have never heard of this guy till Loadmaster directed me to an article about him. Until I did, I had the same reaction I had when I heard of Lulsec and various other high profile incidents (I will attempt to refrain from using the word "hacker" because that phrase isn't a correct description of this event), which was: Some lax in security invited some person to infiltrate and gather data. Then said individual wanted to seek attention and is/was acting all surprised when the law came after him. Basically: blabbing about it only draws the wrong kind of attention and in certain cases makes one look like an attention seeker. I'm not sure if that is what he is or not but what he is doing isn't a wise idea either way.
Secondly: Don't be so sure that Encryption == Keeps things secure. Without knowing how this individual encrypted the data, I can only speculate. However, and this greatly depends on how tech savvy the LE is, if the person assigned to decode it recognizes the algorithm as some kind of readily available tool, they might be able use that to decrypt it.
Then again, I could be wrong and over grossly overestimating the tech savvy of the world's law enforcement tech skills. However that can be made up for by pestering/harassing/legal bombarding/forcing the individual to do that hard work for said law enforcement. That I am positive of regardless of your country origin.
Thirdly: From the article it said he had source code from old games. I know game companies have from time to time released source code of their games. So I wonder what source code he has and if it is already publicly released SC, why the big deal? If it is publicly available, why encrypt it with the other stuff? It's not precisely "hidden info" and the game company isn't going to do anything. They said it was OK after all. If the FBI or LE wanted to jump him for it, it'd backfire in their face due to the fact it was already a publicly released work.
Now if it is for something like a new game or from a game that the makers didn't make public, THAT would make more sense.
Finally, whenever I hear stories of somebody who's done some dubious feat and is sharing the bounty of said feat, I fall back on the old children's lesson: "Never take candy from strangers". To me this is a 1.7 TB Encrypted piece of candy that I have skepticism about. If that gets me labeled as a troll, I have no issues as I'd rather be cautious than end up finding out the 1.7 TB Candy was laced with Digital GHB. Then again, I am not so skeptical that I am not willing to admit I'm wrong or not be further informed. In fact, that is what I'd like: To be convinced that my skepticism is wrong.
1) You don't "announce" to the world that you did something like this and not expect the Internet Police (ie: The FBI) to not do anything. All this dumbass did was paint a bullseye on his ass for both the LE and his future cell mate Bubba to aim their wangs at.
2) Even if all 1.7TB is encrypted, either the Gov will decrypt it or force him to decrypt it unless he enjoys the love Bubba give him.
3) There is a high probability the FBI, Steam, and a few won't give a rat's ass. If TFA is true, there is a probability that the "older source code" was already released to the public and is readily available via a quick Google search.
4) If this numbnuts is telling the truth, why should anybody trust him? The file could easily have nasty things in it to aid this person or blab to the listening FBI/NSA that you have naughty things on your drive?
So why waste ungodly amounts of hours downloading a 1.7 TB file when, from what it sounds like, you can find without doing that? Frankly, I have no need for any of it and got better things to download. Like porn.
I can name to you almost in detail the time me and my guild killed an Elder Dragon in the MMO Ultima Online. That Mother of all Bunnies seems like a pushover in comparison.
...On The Sims Online. So it is safe to say that MMOs have the same effect as dating sites, but you get more for $15 a month (or free if you go the F2P route...) and there isn't any laws saying that PvP is considered "domestic abuse".
...The Entertainment Industry, hiding behind "Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property" which is an obvious sock of the MPAA/RIAA Mafia, wants to further blow their toes off with suggesting putting Malware on all their stuff?
Lets totally ignore the Constitutionality of this and go strait to the other various laws that this proposal will violate... Starting with all those dealing with distributing malware and work our way up to those pesky laws dealing with privacy and illegal search and seizure that will cause most of the evidence against actual pirates to be dismissed in a court of law. Oh and lets just further cut the industry's throat by having all exports be denied by countries that think having malware preloaded is bullshit.
But what do I know? I could never be that blind drunk/stoned and I highly doubt the planet Earth has enough Weed and Booze to make the recommendations this commission came up with make any kind of valid sense.
...that make me seriously doubt that this was a fire deliberately set by Belize officials:
1) Fox News. 'Nuff said.
2) John McAfee. Unintelligent, paranoid moonbat ramblings from somebody who could have murdered another person and did what could be best described as a Beer Run from the authorities but replace the word "Beer" with "Coke and Heroin" and replace "Run" with "Higher than a fucking kite"...
Squirrels are already suicide attacking power lines here. I can name at least three times where a squirrel took out the power after it killed itself by shorting out a substation.
Why should the US worry about domestic terrorists or Chinese hackers when we already have them in our backyards, literally?
All this ad proves is that Microsoft is very, VERY jelly of Google. Maybe if they focused on things like, I don't know, an OS that doesn't blow massive cocks on Hollywood Blvd. or keep failing to make POS phones that have a snowball's chance in hell of beating either Apple or Droid, then maybe we wouldn't be seeing crap like this Jelly Doughnut.
This was predicted back in the 1930s, too. How did that work out for them?
I agree. People don't learn from their mistakes and will eventually repeat them.
Prohibition of Alcohol == War on Drugs.
Television killing movies == Internet killing them all.
Jitterbug corrupting youth == Lady GaGa.
Rock and Roll == Gansta Rap.
Comic Books == Video Games.
I can go on, but you get the point. Everything old that failed is a new fail again.
1) They will be counter sued for blackmail.
2) They will be sued for slander/character assassination as I currently have no porn on my box nor have I downloaded any either legally or not legally.
3) My neighbor is the only one with access to my wifi and she too will sue.
Knowing my luck though, they will run out of money long before they get to me.:-(
Let's quit beating around the bush here: The new OS is going to be called "Windows Blue Screen of Death". A complete operating system of nothing but the BSOD.
Think of the quick load times and minimal system requirements.
Yeah! Think of it's potential!
DRM... Sorry... Mandatory "Always On Features" or "It's not DRM but Cloud stuff!" in games that you can't opt out of? No problem thanks to WinBSOD!
Piracy taking away preciousss money because dirty user Hobbits stealing them? Problem solved thanks to WinBSOD!
Terrorists using computers for terrorism or to plan terrorism? No problem thanks to WinBSOD!
Hackers doing hacking things? Gone! Problem solved thanks to WinBSOD!
Mean, not nice freedom of speech and expression? Say hello to WinBSOD!
Only problems for Microsoft would be the vast majority of users would flock to Apple and Linux in mass exodus only to give those two OSes the exact same problems that Windows did away with under the WinBSOD OS. So maybe that'd be a win for them too?
It's spelled "Windows Blue", but pronounced "Windows Blew".
Let's quit beating around the bush here: The new OS is going to be called "Windows Blue Screen of Death". A complete operating system of nothing but the BSOD.
Now all EA games will come with free misery AND a Force Choke...
More like they are hoping to use Jedi Mind Tricks on players in order to both do and have them forget the whole "It's not DRM! Its a feature that you can't opt out of !" DRM.
They are slow learners. He who forgets history and all...
Basically, Balmer was trying to push the whole Touch Screen peripheral down everybody's throat with Win8. However, not everybody likes or has touch screen PCs. Not to mention various legacy programs that touch screens would make cumbersome if not impossible to use.
However, Balmer and crew would much rather blame the manufacturers ("How dare they not make every PC a touch screen tablet! Them ungrateful maggots!") or the consumer ("How dare they refuse this and just drop their drawers and take it from us like they should! Them ungrateful piss ants!") than blame themselves. They are Microsoft, after all!
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Wow. I tried to post serious contentions that I seen about this issue and I get knocked down for trolling, when in fact I wasn't trying to troll. Trolling isn't something I do here.
Let me see if I can clarify it in a way that won't come off as trollish:
First: I have never heard of this guy till Loadmaster directed me to an article about him. Until I did, I had the same reaction I had when I heard of Lulsec and various other high profile incidents (I will attempt to refrain from using the word "hacker" because that phrase isn't a correct description of this event), which was: Some lax in security invited some person to infiltrate and gather data. Then said individual wanted to seek attention and is/was acting all surprised when the law came after him. Basically: blabbing about it only draws the wrong kind of attention and in certain cases makes one look like an attention seeker. I'm not sure if that is what he is or not but what he is doing isn't a wise idea either way.
Secondly: Don't be so sure that Encryption == Keeps things secure. Without knowing how this individual encrypted the data, I can only speculate. However, and this greatly depends on how tech savvy the LE is, if the person assigned to decode it recognizes the algorithm as some kind of readily available tool, they might be able use that to decrypt it.
Then again, I could be wrong and over grossly overestimating the tech savvy of the world's law enforcement tech skills. However that can be made up for by pestering/harassing/legal bombarding/forcing the individual to do that hard work for said law enforcement. That I am positive of regardless of your country origin.
Thirdly: From the article it said he had source code from old games. I know game companies have from time to time released source code of their games. So I wonder what source code he has and if it is already publicly released SC, why the big deal? If it is publicly available, why encrypt it with the other stuff? It's not precisely "hidden info" and the game company isn't going to do anything. They said it was OK after all. If the FBI or LE wanted to jump him for it, it'd backfire in their face due to the fact it was already a publicly released work.
Now if it is for something like a new game or from a game that the makers didn't make public, THAT would make more sense.
Finally, whenever I hear stories of somebody who's done some dubious feat and is sharing the bounty of said feat, I fall back on the old children's lesson: "Never take candy from strangers". To me this is a 1.7 TB Encrypted piece of candy that I have skepticism about. If that gets me labeled as a troll, I have no issues as I'd rather be cautious than end up finding out the 1.7 TB Candy was laced with Digital GHB. Then again, I am not so skeptical that I am not willing to admit I'm wrong or not be further informed. In fact, that is what I'd like: To be convinced that my skepticism is wrong.
We are getting closer to having our own Turrets from Portal?
Because I can totally live with my own version of Sheldonbot.
...a trap.
1) You don't "announce" to the world that you did something like this and not expect the Internet Police (ie: The FBI) to not do anything. All this dumbass did was paint a bullseye on his ass for both the LE and his future cell mate Bubba to aim their wangs at.
2) Even if all 1.7TB is encrypted, either the Gov will decrypt it or force him to decrypt it unless he enjoys the love Bubba give him.
3) There is a high probability the FBI, Steam, and a few won't give a rat's ass. If TFA is true, there is a probability that the "older source code" was already released to the public and is readily available via a quick Google search.
4) If this numbnuts is telling the truth, why should anybody trust him? The file could easily have nasty things in it to aid this person or blab to the listening FBI/NSA that you have naughty things on your drive?
So why waste ungodly amounts of hours downloading a 1.7 TB file when, from what it sounds like, you can find without doing that? Frankly, I have no need for any of it and got better things to download. Like porn.
You wont get that from ANY MMORPG out today.
I beg to differ.
...and UO has been around since 1997.
I can name to you almost in detail the time me and my guild killed an Elder Dragon in the MMO Ultima Online. That Mother of all Bunnies seems like a pushover in comparison.
Nintendo did this a long time ago. Instead of paying money, Nintendo passed out "coupons" for games. So this is nothing new.
...On The Sims Online. So it is safe to say that MMOs have the same effect as dating sites, but you get more for $15 a month (or free if you go the F2P route...) and there isn't any laws saying that PvP is considered "domestic abuse".
It's fucked. Game over.
Onto Windows 9, or as Steve Balmer likes to say "Not nearly as fucked up as 8, but still a clusterfuck hole extravaganza of epic proportions".
...the new doctor will be ginger this time?
...The Entertainment Industry, hiding behind "Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property" which is an obvious sock of the MPAA/RIAA Mafia, wants to further blow their toes off with suggesting putting Malware on all their stuff?
Lets totally ignore the Constitutionality of this and go strait to the other various laws that this proposal will violate... Starting with all those dealing with distributing malware and work our way up to those pesky laws dealing with privacy and illegal search and seizure that will cause most of the evidence against actual pirates to be dismissed in a court of law. Oh and lets just further cut the industry's throat by having all exports be denied by countries that think having malware preloaded is bullshit.
But what do I know? I could never be that blind drunk/stoned and I highly doubt the planet Earth has enough Weed and Booze to make the recommendations this commission came up with make any kind of valid sense.
...that make me seriously doubt that this was a fire deliberately set by Belize officials:
1) Fox News. 'Nuff said.
2) John McAfee. Unintelligent, paranoid moonbat ramblings from somebody who could have murdered another person and did what could be best described as a Beer Run from the authorities but replace the word "Beer" with "Coke and Heroin" and replace "Run" with "Higher than a fucking kite"...
Yeah... Totally trustworthy person worth my trust.
Too late.
Squirrels are already suicide attacking power lines here. I can name at least three times where a squirrel took out the power after it killed itself by shorting out a substation.
Why should the US worry about domestic terrorists or Chinese hackers when we already have them in our backyards, literally?
...than use that POS search engine Bing.
All this ad proves is that Microsoft is very, VERY jelly of Google. Maybe if they focused on things like, I don't know, an OS that doesn't blow massive cocks on Hollywood Blvd. or keep failing to make POS phones that have a snowball's chance in hell of beating either Apple or Droid, then maybe we wouldn't be seeing crap like this Jelly Doughnut.
This was predicted back in the 1930s, too. How did that work out for them?
I agree. People don't learn from their mistakes and will eventually repeat them.
Prohibition of Alcohol == War on Drugs.
Television killing movies == Internet killing them all.
Jitterbug corrupting youth == Lady GaGa.
Rock and Roll == Gansta Rap.
Comic Books == Video Games.
I can go on, but you get the point. Everything old that failed is a new fail again.
This will not end well.
If they pull this shit on me, then:
:-(
1) They will be counter sued for blackmail.
2) They will be sued for slander/character assassination as I currently have no porn on my box nor have I downloaded any either legally or not legally.
3) My neighbor is the only one with access to my wifi and she too will sue.
Knowing my luck though, they will run out of money long before they get to me.
Windows Blue?
More like Windows Blew.
More like: Windows Blue Screen of Death: The OS version.
...of the UN telling poor, underdeveloped nations to "Let them eat cake", it is now "Let them eat bugs"?
Makes perfect sense since we all know about the cake being a lie by now.
Your kidding right? Of course Apple gets compensated...
Whether or not their employees see that compensation is the real matter.
Partly, bad timing: his party's brand was tarnished by George W. Bush. Partly, bad choice of running mate.
It was as if he wasn't even trying and decided that if he was going to fail, he'd at least go down in a sea of laughter.
...
Too bad Palin didn't get the point that the US and the whole world wasn't pointing and laughing with her
... So, what have we learned?
That Blizzard did a piss poor job in bug checking? That they didn't do enough QA assurance and brought this problem onto itself?
Nah... It ain't that. It is the PLAYERS that did all the wrongdoing!
Let's quit beating around the bush here: The new OS is going to be called "Windows Blue Screen of Death". A complete operating system of nothing but the BSOD.
Think of the quick load times and minimal system requirements.
Yeah! Think of it's potential!
... Sorry... Mandatory "Always On Features" or "It's not DRM but Cloud stuff!" in games that you can't opt out of? No problem thanks to WinBSOD!
DRM
Piracy taking away preciousss money because dirty user Hobbits stealing them? Problem solved thanks to WinBSOD!
Terrorists using computers for terrorism or to plan terrorism? No problem thanks to WinBSOD!
Hackers doing hacking things? Gone! Problem solved thanks to WinBSOD!
Mean, not nice freedom of speech and expression? Say hello to WinBSOD!
Only problems for Microsoft would be the vast majority of users would flock to Apple and Linux in mass exodus only to give those two OSes the exact same problems that Windows did away with under the WinBSOD OS. So maybe that'd be a win for them too?
Microsoft is misspelling things again.
It's spelled "Windows Blue", but pronounced "Windows Blew".
Let's quit beating around the bush here: The new OS is going to be called "Windows Blue Screen of Death". A complete operating system of nothing but the BSOD.
Now all EA games will come with free misery AND a Force Choke...
More like they are hoping to use Jedi Mind Tricks on players in order to both do and have them forget the whole "It's not DRM! Its a feature that you can't opt out of !" DRM.
They are slow learners. He who forgets history and all...
Basically, Balmer was trying to push the whole Touch Screen peripheral down everybody's throat with Win8. However, not everybody likes or has touch screen PCs. Not to mention various legacy programs that touch screens would make cumbersome if not impossible to use.
However, Balmer and crew would much rather blame the manufacturers ("How dare they not make every PC a touch screen tablet! Them ungrateful maggots!") or the consumer ("How dare they refuse this and just drop their drawers and take it from us like they should! Them ungrateful piss ants!") than blame themselves. They are Microsoft, after all!
My reaction, to which I just seen the comic in question today, is:
I don't get it. What is this exactly suppose to be about? *goes about with rest of life*