you know, i reformatted my tv computer today. 5 hours later and the fucking thing is still finding updates. i lost count, but its well past 250 updates and i dont know, what, 24 restarts?

as a frustration vent i google windows updates to satisfyingly read about other poor bastards in the same predicament... and i came across this

http://blogs.microsoft.com/cybertrust/2 ... ncryption/



not too shabby there, microsoft.

but i admit the clinical side of me believe this was a massive collaboration with the nsa to put a back door into everyones computer. dont take me out of content though my ouchies feel tired so im flying to guam for the winter.

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

M$'s biggest problem is mixing enhancement updates in with the security ones. Stupid.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

(my SHARK sucks on the nickname and the humor, but i've got the "uh, [name]" outrage down pat)

but yeah ike, seriously, here's an article from 1999 that talks about NSAKEY and whatnot. this isn't some new thing, they had it sorted out before the internet got everywhere.

i wonder if it was the government who was taking over my computer a few times back in 2012. someone typed out OMFG WHOA to me about ~45mins after i had finished a mix (and if you want some IRL horror movie shit, that first time your cursor moves and starts typing out words on your PC without you doing it is !!!!) and then the other time was when i went to comment on someone's post on facebook and instead of what i typed in "Have you noticed that you've never seen me and superman in the same room?" popped up instead.

oh yeah and there was that stupid mix about the @stardestroyers thing (when i was convinced i was someday going to lead a coalition of people to crush lil b. dream big you know? and i tell you somewhere around quite possibly the cuntiest moment in music history (seriously there was like 2+ layers of the word Caller Bob and the aphex twin song Caller Bob and yeah it was cunty) or maybe just before.... someone who was definitely not me added in the "and firestar!" sample. so i mean the fact that someone was ostensibly watching me make the mix and waited for me to go out nad have a smoke and listen to what i had done so far decided to go back into the done part and slip in a sample? good god man. this is the part where y'all go "sini's on drugs and he just forgot that he put it in there all sloppy" ($100 that nas is thinking that whether a troll or not) but i tell you that during these periods i was basically off drugs and that's kind of where i was motivated to go back on. that's when everything left me alone.

and now that i think about it i'm pretty sure i used to have "ghosts in the shell" back in 2009 because i could just tell. so idk if my 2012-esque hijinks got me noticed (some of you might remember an extra mental me back then. well i was being that way because this shit was happening to me and there were many careful little nudges to push me over the edge so i followed them full speed ahead to try and spring the trap and see what it was all about. at my 2012 peak i could fake a "i'm suicidal" thing on a clandestine twitter account and have a hot chick sent to my location in under 10 minutes to cheer me up. that's the kind of shit i was messing with and why i used you guys to spring the trap, sorry. but hey the book pretty much wrote it self i just have to figure out an endgame and raison d'etre that's outside of myself (cuz i genuinely have none of either =)

but yeah, if y'all wanna believe i'm craaaaaazy you're damn right: i'm posting in an ike thread =D

still tho, ike, that's an old hat, harry.

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what back door did win95 need? that was nearly a completely open os... there was essentially zero security on it.

this is just good news because it should stop credit card thieves and whatnot. i dont even think the nsa needs backdoors anymore. i would not doubt they can break any encryption at will .

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

yeah i'm pretty sure just about every consumer-level OS and especially cellphone is easy as hell to jump into. i mean hell if you wanna go down the rabbit hole and get technical there's always the fun world of acoustical infection/airgapping

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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics investigated the possibilities of malware performing data transfer across the sound devices in air gapped computers. Air gapping is a security measure that involves removing a computer or network from any external network physically and also ensuring there is no wireless connection.

In the proof of concept exploit, the researchers were able to hijack the target computer’s sound card and speakers to transmit data to a receiver. The researchers’ most successful trial used software intended for underwater communication. An infected air gapped computer sent out the ultrasonic signal, which was picked up by the attackers’ receiving microphone up 65 feet away and demodulated by the software on the attack computer. While, contrary to rumor, the proof of concept did not actually infect via sound waves, it is theoretically possible.

The proof of concept exploit used conventional means, such as external drives, to infect the target system. Despite acoustic infection’s low bandwidth (20bits/s), the fact that it uses sound beyond the range of human hearing means that malware can stealthily send data without an Internet connection. That capacity is enough to enable sending small phrases picked out for their relevance, making the strongest password easily accessible to the attacker.

To prevent data exfiltration in sound-gapped computers, the researchers recommend that the audio devices be removed. Nevertheless, it’s still possible that a compromised computer could be outfitted with supplemental audio devices that are very difficult to detect.

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so when you meet somebody who has managed to remove all of their soundcards from their PC, or at least built their own custom PC with a soundcard (seeing as i'd guess many consumer-level-OEM PCs from major companies prolly have the sound card built into the motherboard, and of course laptops (which all have that camera facing at you with a microphone nowadays, perfectly complimenting your new/ish phone's front facing camera, eh? =) --- you know that they're not fucking around. or well, technically, maybe they ARE fucking around on some level you prolly don't wanna be involved in, eh?

shakespeare was truly ahead of his time when he said "all the world's a stage"

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