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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://level1techs.com/video/tor-printer-cartridges-railguns-and-salmon-lasers-their-forehead
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Salmon with Lasers

Not sharks with lasers

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I'm sure it's only a matter of time until someone mods it to look like a shark

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This is something that @Castiel may or may not be able to confirm but i dont think they are able to force a password or encryption key out of you as long as you never write it down because it is a "product of the mind"

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With regards to the railgun and taking the articles claim of energy equivalent equal to a freight train (I found a number from popmech of 3,000 short tons for an average.) moving at 100 mph, you can find it has ~2.7 gigajoules of energy. This is on the same order of magnitude as a large man (100 kg) moving at the orbital speed of the Hubble telescope. Values of claimed energy range from other sources range from 32 megajoules at the muzzle to that much at the impact site. Some handy energy equivalents below.

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What we've learned from this episode is that Wendell actually does drink beer. I cannot express the enlightenment I feel knowing that. xD

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Hahahaha watch the market for oversize cables and improved read massively overkill shielding grow over night in response to this "Dig Once" extra conduit space.

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Microsoft isn't willing to relent so as to what and how were features cut from their Windows 10 version that leads it to continue normal functions even without the heavily baked-in, essential, flaunted telemetry features.

And this is EXACTLY EXACTLY EXACTLY the same bullshit Microsoft pulled with Internet Explorer in the US and in Europe.

Microsoft stated that the merging of Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer was the result of innovation and competition, that the two were now the same product and were inextricably linked together...

(quoted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp )

Of course one could easily remove IE with a simple script and caused no noticeable instabilities in spite of Microsoft claims to the contrary - the only programs that stopped working were IE-based and/or Microsofts own programs no one who would remove IE would have been likely to use anyway (that too documented on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Internet_Explorer ).

Because you just can't have a commercial OS without a lot of crap "inextricably" attached to it. Or can you?

Well. It depends:

When you test software, you usually make sure that your components work by testing them in isolation, and charting dependencies. Saying that something like telemetry is inextricable is either:

  • admission of not having tested your software + having a spaghetti codebase

or

  • lying.

Even engineering such a dependency on purpose, if your OS has anywhere near a sound codebase, it can be removed. It's as simple as replacing a DLL with a non-executing version which is rigged to return values that cause no-operation on API-user code, and some minor adjustments to a few instances of the API-user code (which I assume is exactly what they have done, if they really did remove the telemetry).

One can create (and in this case probably has created) a telemetry system which is difficult for a hacker to remove without also removing some functionality from the complete product. But that can not be difficult to do for Microsoft.

All that being said, exactly what telemetry and user tracking has really been disabled? Does it still phone home to update? Can it still have an update which turns all the telemetry crap on? And indeed, what about the possibility of having Cortana always listening and sending data to the Chinese government instead of Microsoft, even when you think your computer is off?

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@wendell

Why just hold Americans up to the standard of hacking tractors? The subtlety in this whole outrage in Russia influencing the election is: why was Russian intelligence the only ones 'competent' enough to uncover the conspiracy by Hillary and the DNC to usurp the election? Were US intelligence agencies too busy bugging the electronic devices of 'ordinary' US citizens?

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I ordered something in the early 2000s that parked it's self in Redmond, WA for a week. I can't remember what it was, but it might have been my SmartX chip for the XBox1.

Might have been a mobo/CPU combo.

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The windows 10 segment was pretty funny. Chinese version may stop reporting to micro$oft but in turn government will use it to spy on its own people.

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@wendell actually covered it pretty well.

While the legal argument has been fifth amendment provides protection for passwords, there hasn't been a case to confirm that rationale and create that legal precedent.

You may be wondering why? Well argument that has been used is that by providing the password alone you are not incriminating yourself. The reason for this is similar to the when you open your door for the police to execute a search warrant. You opening that door for the police does not incriminate you.

I myself can see the argument and logic behind this thinking but that doesn't mean I like it.

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But more importantly, now that the Chinese have the W10 sourcecode, they can also more easily spy on business', governments, dissidents, journalists, and etc. around the globe!

BTW - I don't believe in security by obscurity, but if the bad guys are the only ones with the source, that leaves average users completely screwed by Microsoft. Of course there ARE viable Windows alternatives ...