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by wfunction 9y ago
> Which MSFT has been collecting since Win XP SP2 Didn't they let you disable it though? Unlike what you just claimed is the case in Win10? > you are more than welcome to not use Windows Yes, and people would avoid upgrading to
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by wfunction 9y ago
> Microsoft started by doing what every other OS maker was already doing by collecting telemetry Unrelated to my sibling comment, but the parent was talking about tracking and nagware during the Windows 10 TRANSITION, which you convenien
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by wfunction 9y ago
> The number of people I've met that are happy about new Windows 10 features outnumber the ones that would rather stick with win7 + security updates (without the privacy invading stuff). And what about Windows 8.1 (with classic shel
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by wfunction 9y ago
> despite the fact that you could always turn it down to basic level which was essentially crash dumps Crash dumps contain memory dumps, right? Memory dumps can contain passwords and other sensitive data, right? Whom are you trying to fo
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by wfunction 9y ago
Why is this not getting press coverage? This looks like a huge deal...
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by wfunction 9y ago
The whole point of blocking calls from unknown numbers is that your phone doesn't ring or distract you. Picking it up is obviously not a solution.
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by wfunction 9y ago
Can someone explain what "neighborhood spoofing" technology is? Is it legal (beyond the fact that it lets you spoof and match the first few digits)? Can anyone do it? What's a legitimate use case for it?
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by wfunction 9y ago
Experience with this club, or experience with some other random club?
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by wfunction 9y ago
That's pretty cool, thanks!
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by wfunction 9y ago
And you got it through the Enterprise license? Through your company or personally? Nothing related to 10,000 Windows seats? That's pretty weird if so since they say you must meet that requirement...
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by wfunction 9y ago
> A few years ago the ReactOS developers had to stop all development for several months to perform a source code audit. What kind of an audit can you do without access to the original software's source code? How would you tell if it
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by wfunction 9y ago
But the point is you need to already have a relationship, right? It seems you can't just say "I'm curious" (or even better, "I want to track down X bug") and expect to get source access, contrary to what was cl
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by wfunction 9y ago
None of those categories seem to include ordinary developers though?
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by wfunction 9y ago
How do you "ask them"? Do they have an email address for this? Or do you have to find the right guy on the team somehow?
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by wfunction 9y ago
Same question I had. Though it wouldn't be hard to control for, just put a random honeypot domain and see how many visits it gets.
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by wfunction 9y ago
Wait, so when it's your (side's) turn, you(r side) start(s) claiming "vulnerabilities can be independently discovered", but when it's my (side's) turn, your argument is "but there'd be no proof of con
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by wfunction 9y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but WannaCry used vulnerabilities that already had patches. How does reporting these vulnerabilities earlier instead of keeping them fix this situation? You'd still have the problem of slow updates regardle
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by wfunction 9y ago
I do get the impression a fair number of people actually believe the NSA shouldn't do this. Whether it's out of naiveté or wisdom is harder to tell, but I definitely don't get the impression everyone here is speaking from, sa
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by wfunction 9y ago
Oui, je le devinais haha :P
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by wfunction 9y ago
How the (English-speaking) rich signal their wealth: by referring to marvelous works in French that have no worthy English translations. :P
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by wfunction 9y ago
Since when does "open-source" mean "community-friendly"? Why insist on using words that don't say what you want them to mean, when you can use ones that do?
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by wfunction 9y ago
Cool, you've convinced me now.
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by wfunction 9y ago
That's not the case at least in the example I just gave though, right?
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by wfunction 9y ago
Thanks, but I'm not sure that's it. For example, when I look at at [1], I see an apparent contradiction with [2]. It almost seems like they don't know what they're doing, but surely that's because I'm misunders
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by wfunction 9y ago
Can someone explain how some of projects can be MIT-licensed (or anything-else-licensed) as they claim? Aren't they necessarily in the public domain given that they're works of the U.S. Government?
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by wfunction 9y ago
>> Im not convinced there isn't a universal tendency for communities to get worse over time. > There isn't. Cool, I'm sure you managed to convince him now.
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by wfunction 9y ago
And I was not disagreeing with it. I was addressing part (2) of that comment.
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by wfunction 9y ago
(a) I didn't say "everywhere", and I wasn't talking about LA. I'm glad you lived somewhere where that wasn't the case. The world is bigger than LA, or than the United States for that matter. (b) My point was n
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by wfunction 9y ago
Yes, people don't tend to reminisce about bad things. They prefer to leave them behind and focus on maximizing the good parts. That's normal, expected, generally healthy, and also not what the parent comment was saying. As for the
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by wfunction 9y ago
> 2. There's a universal tendency for people to reminisce fondly about the good old days and contrast them with the ostensibly bad present. It has nothing to do with the truth. It is simply a syndrome of getting old. Nothing to do w

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