No that's what basic common sense is for. There is simply no justification for laptops designed in such a way the user is prevented from replacing hard disks.
If I can't pull a drive from a laptop it may as well not exist because I sure as fuck will not be wasting my money on such defective crap.
Even digital signals are subject to SNR degradation - a crappy cable will increase the Bit Error Rate, eventually overwhelming the error correction capabilities of the protocol and introducing errors in the data.
This is HDMI we're talking about. There is no error correction whatsoever.
Audio codecs sent over HDMI generally do at least have (shitty) internal error detection.... AC3 (Dolby Digital) for example uses CRC16.. this results in transmission of nothing to speakers 99.999% of the time a random failure occurs.
When you weigh chance of garbage transmitted to speakers against the reality of listener becoming so annoyed by audio drops they replace cable long before a single instance of garbage ever makes it thru the argument as a practical matter becomes entirely specious.
Using wireless for situations where wires aren't available?
I'm simply not buying what is being sold. "where wires aren't available".
Obviously wireless transmissions are subject to a wide range of interference from both other transmitters and the environment.
You don't do remote surgery in a facility without infrastructure. If there is power, water and sewer then it is also reasonable to expect cabling to be tractable for communications.
Also if there is a 5G access point within range there is very likely to be supporting backhaul links not too far away.
Personally I don't get the most beautiful data center thing. Was expecting it to be integrated into setting in some interesting way rather than literally just a box of racks in the middle of a room.
Nevertheless was very impressed by lack of nylon cable ties. Velcro more than makes up for the initial disappointment.
People who kill other people tend to be more impulsive than they are intelligent. The number of people who are aware that they can access this data, intelligent enough to be able to gather and put it to use, but also willing to kill someone is incredibly small.
Stalker apps to spy on significant others have been installed on MILLIONS of devices. The universe of deranged control freaks and jealous spouses are well aware of what's available to them.
It's normal people who lack this knowledge and think you need to have a functioning brain to use tools like this that are the problem.
It's not that this can't happen, it's just a lot less likely. If we're interested in preventing spousal murders (or just violence in general) there are plenty of other things that we should be far more worried about.
What else should the FCC be far more worried about in this area? Spectrum policy? Decency standards?
The sad thing is that something like this would get sensationalized and focus and effort that could be better spent elsewhere for better overall outcomes will instead be pointlessly squandered.
FFS what effort? How much does it cost to levy fines against companies for breaking existing regulations? Fuck just hire me... I'll do it for free if I get to keep the proceeds.
But it's also not wrong to say - this is not threat to life. It's something that should be addressed when the government is re-opened.
Given the insane numbers of restraining orders issued in this country and the thousand women actually killed each year by their husbands alone it is easy to draw the opposite conclusion.
Where is my sandwich? Where did that bitch run off to? I swear I'm going to cut her.
(Gets location data from shady broker)
Oh she's at her sisters.
News at 10: Two sisters killed by deranged husband.
Eavesdropping is just physicaly unfeasible because the photon cannot be 'read' and 'resent'
You may not be able to passively eavesdrop but you sure as heck can pretend to be one of the endpoints. Either way end result of successful impersonation is the same quantum or not.
Why bother when most network traffic is already encrypted? Encryption is worthless if an attacker manages to get the digital keys used to encode and decode messages.
This is what forward secrecy is for.
Each key is usually extra-encrypted, but documents disclosed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden in 2013 showed that the U.S. government, which hoovers up most of the worldâ(TM)s internet traffic, can also break those tougher codes.
Unless security vendors have made secret deals with god normal cryptography is still required to authenticate peers and just like normal systems compromise of keys is fatal to future communications.
Just like normal systems:
1. There are still keys that can be stolen. 2. There is still cryptography that can be compromised.
If any of the pulsesâ(TM) paths are interrupted and they donâ(TM)t arrive at the endpoint at the expected nanosecond, the sender and receiver know their communication has been compromised.
Given fiber only runs.67c this is hardly definitive of anything.
I know this is rather unlikely but it would so make my day if by some miracle Apples new product rollouts happen on the same day the supreme court decides against them.
Come on, don't give them a pass. It's not a very good value proposition is it. It's for the fanboys only. You can buy a 2080 for $699 and you get RT and Tensor cores (ray tracing, DLSS, etc.).
I watched the Nvidia CES and the whole presentation + RT/Tensor thing felt like one giant scam.
DLSS as near as I can tell is basically just an upscaler using substantially similar "AI" database approach as Sony's x-reality asic. This technology has been around for years. While it's nice it sure as heck doesn't produce magical outcomes that are anywhere near rendering native resolution.
Then there was gratuitous use of TAA throughout the demos as a reference which would be hilarious if they were not serious. TAA is only state of the art in blurry mess technology... using that as basis for comparisons especially given the effective resolution of the window as it was viewable in the CES demo... was basically a scam.
Personally if 2080 can't deliver high frame rate ray tracing at 4k what does it matter? Modern shader hacks for dynamic lighting are quite realistic.. so is it really worth cranking resolution down so much.. just for slightly more realistic lighting? Would that really produce a better overall quality image? Personally I'm more impressed by 1TB/s memory bandwidth than I am with ray tracing at this point.
No doubt in the future RT will win out but right now to make buying decision based on it... I personally don't see the value.
When disabled the OS prevents it from doing anything. It's locked away unable and unallowed to run. It can't do anything, so it's as good as deleted. It's basically just data using up space on your system partition, but that's not an issue as you can't write to the system partition anyway.
This is not true. It can't be loaded normally by user but other things/events can still trigger it.
Why would that make you feel better? The default install is nothing but a shell and doesn't do anything without an update from the play store. By disabling something in Android it is unable to perform any function including updating itself. Why would you feel differently about it not existing vs being so incredibly irrelevant?
This common wisdom happens to be wrong. Disabled apps can in fact continue to execute.
You can disable an app, reboot and it would still be started once whatever it has hooked generates an event / call.
This is a common theme I keep hearing over and over again. Apparently vendors think if they parrot the same lie enough times users will believe it.
First they said you didn't have to stop apps because they won't consume resources unless they are in the foreground so it makes no difference what's running.
Then they said if an app isn't running it can't do anything.
Finally they said if an app is disabled it can't possibly execute.
All three are false assertions on the Android platform. Reality is you can register with various systems to live through anything and creepy stalker apps leverage it to the max.
It's actually extremely easy to copy files to an iPhone. You drag them to iCloud storage on your computer and then they show up under the iPhone "files" app.
It's because people don't really care. I have to admit, I use an Android phone so I guess I am encouraging privacy violations. But the alternative is to lock myself into Apple's walled garden, inability to simply copy files to my phone, and instead have to use a format iTunes will be happy with or use a flaky in app transfer; I pick sacrificing my privacy.
Android is a open source operating system with a Linux kernel.
The problem is not the operating system it's software bundled with it. Most notably Google Play Services which magically transforms anything running Android into malware.
Alternative images freely available and regularly maintained can be downloaded for many devices here: https://lineageos.org/
You must really hate buying anything from a retail store then. Typical markup in a retail store is "50%" - which is phrased to be purposely misleading. Markup in retail is "the percent of the retail price which is the markup." So retail markup is to double the retailer's cost.
Retail stores have physical inventory to maintain. They need to pay people to stock shelves, man cash registers and manage supply chain. Comparing electronic copying of bits and bytes to retail stores is ridiculous.
At least I can go to most retail stores and buy the same shit. With these electronic distribution monopolies you have no choice. If you want something there is often only one place you can get it.
The market is currently in another price discovery stage, where companies are now able to put in place their own infrastructure or be able to support lower rates than 30%. Trying to vilify companies offering storefronts for using value pricing (which is what every sales organization ever does if they want to stay profitable) is disingenuous.
Since bypassing Apple for purchase of In-App services is against ToS; How long before Apple suspends the Netflix app in the iTunes store and disables existing installations on Apple customers' hardware with an error message indicating "This app is currently unavailable, because the creator, 'Netflix', is in breach of the Apple Developer Agreement" ?
Apple is already skating on thin ice WRT anti-trust scrutiny. Probably not in their best interests to push their luck to the max.
With the benevolent creators of the internet dieing off, the future looks bleak and in the hands of orwelian corporations.
I sometimes hear sentiments like this and it always leaves me scratching my head.
Given cost, capability and availability of technology it's never been easier or cheaper to act.
It's like living in the matrix, a swarm of sentinels coming your way and you keep bitching about how many of them there are and how hard it is to reach over and press the big red EMP button.
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That's what encryption is for.
No that's what basic common sense is for. There is simply no justification for laptops designed in such a way the user is prevented from replacing hard disks.
If I can't pull a drive from a laptop it may as well not exist because I sure as fuck will not be wasting my money on such defective crap.
Even digital signals are subject to SNR degradation - a crappy cable will increase the Bit Error Rate, eventually overwhelming the error correction capabilities of the protocol and introducing errors in the data.
This is HDMI we're talking about. There is no error correction whatsoever.
Audio codecs sent over HDMI generally do at least have (shitty) internal error detection.... AC3 (Dolby Digital) for example uses CRC16.. this results in transmission of nothing to speakers 99.999% of the time a random failure occurs.
When you weigh chance of garbage transmitted to speakers against the reality of listener becoming so annoyed by audio drops they replace cable long before a single instance of garbage ever makes it thru the argument as a practical matter becomes entirely specious.
Using wireless for situations where wires aren't available?
I'm simply not buying what is being sold. "where wires aren't available".
Obviously wireless transmissions are subject to a wide range of interference from both other transmitters and the environment.
You don't do remote surgery in a facility without infrastructure. If there is power, water and sewer then it is also reasonable to expect cabling to be tractable for communications.
Also if there is a 5G access point within range there is very likely to be supporting backhaul links not too far away.
Wake me up when they separate all of the creepy malware from Windows 10.
Personally I don't get the most beautiful data center thing. Was expecting it to be integrated into setting in some interesting way rather than literally just a box of racks in the middle of a room.
Nevertheless was very impressed by lack of nylon cable ties. Velcro more than makes up for the initial disappointment.
People who kill other people tend to be more impulsive than they are intelligent. The number of people who are aware that they can access this data, intelligent enough to be able to gather and put it to use, but also willing to kill someone is incredibly small.
Stalker apps to spy on significant others have been installed on MILLIONS of devices. The universe of deranged control freaks and jealous spouses are well aware of what's available to them.
It's normal people who lack this knowledge and think you need to have a functioning brain to use tools like this that are the problem.
It's not that this can't happen, it's just a lot less likely. If we're interested in preventing spousal murders (or just violence in general) there are plenty of other things that we should be far more worried about.
What else should the FCC be far more worried about in this area? Spectrum policy? Decency standards?
The sad thing is that something like this would get sensationalized and focus and effort that could be better spent elsewhere for better overall outcomes will instead be pointlessly squandered.
FFS what effort? How much does it cost to levy fines against companies for breaking existing regulations? Fuck just hire me... I'll do it for free if I get to keep the proceeds.
But it's also not wrong to say - this is not threat to life. It's something that should be addressed when the government is re-opened.
Given the insane numbers of restraining orders issued in this country and the thousand women actually killed each year by their husbands alone it is easy to draw the opposite conclusion.
Where is my sandwich? Where did that bitch run off to? I swear I'm going to cut her.
(Gets location data from shady broker)
Oh she's at her sisters.
News at 10: Two sisters killed by deranged husband.
Of course it could have. And as a proof of concept how would this help a situation where wifi / wired connection does not exist?
Wireless is not a technology looking for a problem to solve. The problems are well known and are driving continued improvements in wireless.
Only in China would anyone even dream of doing something this idiotic.
Eavesdropping is just physicaly unfeasible because the photon cannot be 'read' and 'resent'
You may not be able to passively eavesdrop but you sure as heck can pretend to be one of the endpoints. Either way end result of successful impersonation is the same quantum or not.
Why bother when most network traffic is already encrypted? Encryption is worthless if an attacker manages to get the digital keys used to encode and decode messages.
This is what forward secrecy is for.
Each key is usually extra-encrypted, but documents disclosed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden in 2013 showed that the U.S. government, which hoovers up most of the worldâ(TM)s internet traffic, can also break those tougher codes.
Unless security vendors have made secret deals with god normal cryptography is still required to authenticate peers and just like normal systems compromise of keys is fatal to future communications.
Just like normal systems:
1. There are still keys that can be stolen.
2. There is still cryptography that can be compromised.
If any of the pulsesâ(TM) paths are interrupted and they donâ(TM)t arrive at the endpoint at the expected nanosecond, the sender and receiver know their communication has been compromised.
Given fiber only runs .67c this is hardly definitive of anything.
I know this is rather unlikely but it would so make my day if by some miracle
Apples new product rollouts happen on the same day the supreme court decides against them.
someone has local access to your machine, you're doing it wrong anyway.
Linux is a multi-user operating system. It's designed explicitly to support multiple users concurrently with limited privileges.
Kodi on Raspberry PI is $50, without any data harvesting shenanigans except maybe from third-party applications.
Odriods are the same price and they get you way better hardware and 4k.
Come on, don't give them a pass. It's not a very good value proposition is it. It's for the fanboys only. You can buy a 2080 for $699 and you get RT and Tensor cores (ray tracing, DLSS, etc.).
I watched the Nvidia CES and the whole presentation + RT/Tensor thing felt like one giant scam.
DLSS as near as I can tell is basically just an upscaler using substantially similar "AI" database approach as Sony's x-reality asic. This technology has been around for years. While it's nice it sure as heck doesn't produce magical outcomes that are anywhere near rendering native resolution.
Then there was gratuitous use of TAA throughout the demos as a reference which would be hilarious if they were not serious. TAA is only state of the art in blurry mess technology... using that as basis for comparisons especially given the effective resolution of the window as it was viewable in the CES demo... was basically a scam.
Personally if 2080 can't deliver high frame rate ray tracing at 4k what does it matter? Modern shader hacks for dynamic lighting are quite realistic.. so is it really worth cranking resolution down so much .. just for slightly more realistic lighting? Would that really produce a better overall quality image? Personally I'm more impressed by 1TB/s memory bandwidth than I am with ray tracing at this point.
No doubt in the future RT will win out but right now to make buying decision based on it ... I personally don't see the value.
Disabled apps are not a security issue as they can't run.
Yes they can run.
When disabled the OS prevents it from doing anything. It's locked away unable and unallowed to run. It can't do anything, so it's as good as deleted. It's basically just data using up space on your system partition, but that's not an issue as you can't write to the system partition anyway.
This is not true. It can't be loaded normally by user but other things/events can still trigger it.
Why would that make you feel better? The default install is nothing but a shell and doesn't do anything without an update from the play store. By disabling something in Android it is unable to perform any function including updating itself. Why would you feel differently about it not existing vs being so incredibly irrelevant?
This common wisdom happens to be wrong. Disabled apps can in fact continue to execute.
You can disable an app, reboot and it would still be started once whatever it has hooked generates an event / call.
This is a common theme I keep hearing over and over again. Apparently vendors think if they parrot the same lie enough times users will believe it.
First they said you didn't have to stop apps because they won't consume resources unless they are in the foreground so it makes no difference what's running.
Then they said if an app isn't running it can't do anything.
Finally they said if an app is disabled it can't possibly execute.
All three are false assertions on the Android platform. Reality is you can register with various systems to live through anything and creepy stalker apps leverage it to the max.
It's actually extremely easy to copy files to an iPhone. You drag them to iCloud storage on your computer and then they show up under the iPhone "files" app.
LOL
It's because people don't really care. I have to admit, I use an Android phone so I guess I am encouraging privacy violations. But the alternative is to lock myself into Apple's walled garden, inability to simply copy files to my phone, and instead have to use a format iTunes will be happy with or use a flaky in app transfer; I pick sacrificing my privacy.
Android is a open source operating system with a Linux kernel.
The problem is not the operating system it's software bundled with it. Most notably Google Play Services which magically transforms anything running Android into malware.
Alternative images freely available and regularly maintained can be downloaded for many devices here: https://lineageos.org/
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You must really hate buying anything from a retail store then. Typical markup in a retail store is "50%" - which is phrased to be purposely misleading. Markup in retail is "the percent of the retail price which is the markup." So retail markup is to double the retailer's cost.
Retail stores have physical inventory to maintain. They need to pay people to stock shelves, man cash registers and manage supply chain. Comparing electronic copying of bits and bytes to retail stores is ridiculous.
At least I can go to most retail stores and buy the same shit. With these electronic distribution monopolies you have no choice. If you want something there is often only one place you can get it.
The market is currently in another price discovery stage, where companies are now able to put in place their own infrastructure or be able to support lower rates than 30%. Trying to vilify companies offering storefronts for using value pricing (which is what every sales organization ever does if they want to stay profitable) is disingenuous.
Comparing retail with app stores is disingenuous.
Since bypassing Apple for purchase of In-App services is against ToS; How long before Apple suspends the Netflix app in the iTunes store and disables existing installations on Apple customers' hardware with an error message indicating "This app is currently unavailable, because the creator, 'Netflix', is in breach of the Apple Developer Agreement" ?
Apple is already skating on thin ice WRT anti-trust scrutiny. Probably not in their best interests to push their luck to the max.
It might be easier and cheaper in financial and technical terms, but you would run afoul of dozen of laws and have your life ruined forever.
Only if you live in North Korea (or Australia).
With the benevolent creators of the internet dieing off, the future looks bleak and in the hands of orwelian corporations.
I sometimes hear sentiments like this and it always leaves me scratching my head.
Given cost, capability and availability of technology it's never been easier or cheaper to act.
It's like living in the matrix, a swarm of sentinels coming your way and you keep bitching about how many of them there are and how hard it is to reach over and press the big red EMP button.