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This whole thing makes me very suspicious of Apple's and Microsoft's whole disk encryption technologies. I can't help but wonder if back doors have been inserted into the products.
You can find the Torrent at Wikileaks: https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Microsoft_COFEE_%28Computer_Onlin...
This whole thing makes me very suspicious of Apple's and Microsoft's whole disk encryption technologies. I can't help but wonder if back doors have been inserted into the products.
Of course there are back doors, like the well known NSAKEY one [1] in Windows. Apple also seem to have backdoors into encryption on both Mac and iOS [2]. If you want your data to be reasonably secure against someone who casually steals it then they're fine but if you want to be secure against government employees, or even well connected corporations, then Apple & Microsoft solutions are not very useful. [1] https://e…
Not saying that NSA isn't spying, just that the key mentioned is not used for that purpose.
Puts this in an entirely different light, doesn't it: Even when ostensibly not functioning, the Xbox One can run in a low-powered state, ready to be snapped on at a moment's notice. That's something Microsoft was showing off last week as an asset. The only on-switch Microsoft showed for waking the machine from its low-power state was a voice command... "Xbox On." The Xbox One could only hear that if the Kinect was al…
The same is true for most phones and tablets, and for laptops including Macbooks and Chromebooks(which is worse in some aspects since it has paltry storage forcing you to store everything in the cloud).
Phones are worse since people carry them everywhere including bathrooms and bedrooms. Not to mention Google Glass. Not sure why they're not a big deal but the Xbox One is.
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an always on microphone, with fixed hardware and software, phoning home at regular intervals has a big target sign painted on it.
Yeah it's insane to think that anyone would own some kind of device that has a microphone and camera accessible by a third party, right? I mean what's next, they're going to make these things small enough that we can carry them everywhere?
Grab the source, build it and install it yourself. If your device doesn't support it, buy one that does. If you can't do it yourself, get used to be screwed in this brave new Orwelian world.
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The NSA is skating on very thin constitutional ice, but honestly they haven't really done anything that even qualifies as evil. The KGB did this kind of spying, but they did for the express purpose of sending dissenters to gulag. I haven't seen so much as a credible accusation that the NSA are doing anything other than their duly authorized mission.
This is the same as the British Stamp Act from the American Revolutionary War. If the Stamp Act was an argument for revolution because it was evil, this is too.
I feel so stupid and so ashamed of myself for all the time I have thought of everything Richard Stallman had to say about privacy and security concern as a "neck-beard, tin-foil hat, nutjob". He was right all along, it was us who didn't care enough to understand what he was saying and its importance.
Not many like that left. I know I sold out already.
Puts this in an entirely different light, doesn't it: Even when ostensibly not functioning, the Xbox One can run in a low-powered state, ready to be snapped on at a moment's notice. That's something Microsoft was showing off last week as an asset. The only on-switch Microsoft showed for waking the machine from its low-power state was a voice command... "Xbox On." The Xbox One could only hear that if the Kinect was al…
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It's almost as if the device was designed with surveillance in mind.
It was, targeted advertising, or at least that's the excuse. http://consumerist.com/2013/07/08/the-xbox-one-will-use-kine... http://bgr.com/2012/06/12/microsoft-xbox-kinect-targeted-adv...
If these media outlets are holding on to them to dribble and drab them out to make a buck, there's a huge problem with that. Everything should be out on a torrent or wikileaks for all to see.