subignition

Fair enough. I was speaking towards the perspective of op. We were encouraged, not required, so there were definitely some folks who would do that.

That sounds like poor IT policies to me. In previous office jobs I’ve had, our computers were configured with our working hours and we wouldn’t shut them down at the end of the day, so that any updates could happen off the clock and minimize that sort of disruption.

There’s also WSL though your mileage may vary.

What a detailed post, that was a fun read. You clearly live a much more interesting life than some of us

What are you talking about? There are endless services where you can get a free email address without spending a cent. Verifying that an email is genuine is a much harder ask than you might think.

Silicon and silicone are two very different things, just FYI. But that does make sense

It’s still bonded to silicon carbide…

Don’t get me wrong, it’s an important advancement in semiconductor technology if the claims they’re making hold up. But it’s grown on silicon wafers. “Post-silicon chips” feels somewhat misleading here

Yes, enforced pseudonymity would work much better. You can have up to three, or some number, of identities, they’re not linked to your info but they are all linked to each other.

I appreciate your optimism.
You can lead a horse to text, but you can’t make him read

While I appreciate the nitpick, I think it’s likely the case that “kills a bunch of people” is also something we want to avoid…

Deformity

I don’t doubt that he was an accident

Assassin’s Creed’s Publisher’s Greed: “No Pop-Ups. No Pop-Ups. You’re The Pop-Ups.”

I thought I was old, but I’ve only even heard of the 3dfx 😳

If a malicious actor has physical access to your machine, you have already lost. Been that way since the dawn of computing. Full-disk encryption can potentially protect your data from unauthorized access, but it can’t really stop a thief from wiping the laptop and making it their own. And if you get it back you probably want to wipe it anyway.

According to your link, hosting an exit node was not a crime by itself, this person pretty much encouraged the illegal activity

The Austrian Court found that this activity may lead to criminal liability for aiding and abetting of a crime of distribution of child pornography when coupled with other circumstances. Of course, mere provision of Tor Nodes would not be enough to establish at least indirect intent (bedingte Vorsatz), which such aiding and abetting under criminal laws usually requires (§ 5 StGB).
In order to find such circumstances, according to PCWorld, the court cited transcripts of chat sessions uncovered during the investigation in which the Weber told an unidentified correspondent “You can host 20TB child porn with us on some encrypted hdds”, “You can host child porn on our servers” and “If you want to host child porn … I would use Tor.” Weber defended himself against this on his blog saying: “Yes, this logs existed – Yes, i recommended Tor to host anything anonymously, including child pornography – Yes, this is of course taken out of context.”

There was a 1999 PC game called Drakan: Order of the Flame which was a pretty good time. Third-person action-adventure sword and sorcery that had some fun hidden secrets, a variety of weapons with different strengths, dragon riding… To expand on that, and probably make the protagonist a bit more realistically dressed, would be enjoyable

“This cyberattack on a hospital not only could have had disastrous consequences, but patient’s personal information was also compromised,” said Chris Hacker, Special Agent in Charge of FBI Atlanta.

Irl relevant username

this is so obviously a troll account that it’s painful to see no one else questioning it

And probably contracted out to a company, so they can say it was outside their knowledge/responsibility/control when evil shit inevitably happens