Also worth checking the unforgotten ones. When I was a child my grandparents would take me to one of the beaches that had many capped wells and we would kick the rusted lid off and throw rocks inside for the sounds. Either that or they were eye-balling it to see if I would fit.
This is just a "gut feeling" but I would suspect this has less to do with securing the OS and more to do with future changes to the network stack so that anyone using a VPN can be tied back to a piece of hardware at some point in the future much like there is a network ID in Firefox that users can not easily change. Playing the long game if you will. Either a gut feeling or it was that breakfast burrito.
Indeed, I think this is part of a long game to make it so that all network requests can be hardware attested that the user is running a known and/or "blessed" system. It's not just Microsoft either, but all the big techs (Apple, Google, etc). Riff raff like us that run Linux will have to switch or say goodbye to most of the internet.
Other parts of this include Apple's Private Access Token, and Google's Web Environment Integrity. Once they have all that done and covering the large majority of users, the ratcheting will start. Using the internet without one of these blessed systems will be much like it is using Tor today (endless CAPTCHAs, lot's of refusing to work, etc).
Using the internet without one of these blessed systems will be much like it is using Tor today (endless CAPTCHAs, lot's of refusing to work, etc).
I hope it does not end up that way but would not be surprised if it does. In that case I would probably just use a Windows or Apple machine as a proxy for sites that required such behavior if it were feasible.
Maybe the war on encryption was just a show to make people think they can not monitor WhatsApp or Signal. Now they give up and push people to those platforms. Would that qualify me as a conspiracy theorist and if so what kind of nickname do I get? I hope it rhymes with Bender. I have skin thicker than my skull so I hope people give me a good one.
In my unpopular opinion I believe a better approach would be to stay on the platform and only use it to let people know when there are updates on their own platform, website, forum, etc... Let citizens know up front that interactions will only take place on their own platforms and that comments on X will not be replied to and then set up automation to delete any comment that is not theirs or block external comments. There's always a few cops that get assigned a desk job that could find themselves useful maintaining such things.
> Let citizens know up front that interactions will only take place on their own platforms and that comments on X will not be replied to and then set up automation to delete any comment that is not theirs or block external comments
That’s a lot of work to stay in place. Simpler to just quit.
That’s a lot of work to stay in place. Simpler to just quit.
Perhaps true, but if we are going to assign dodger Bob or tosser Tim to a desk they can manage a few comments here and there instead of playing Minesweeper.
I've only had a smart phone for almost 2 years and I am ready to move back to a dumb phone. It just doesn't align with me personally. I use the phone for voice and text SMS and that's it. I've never once browsed a website from it and I do not install applications. If the future requires a smart phone then I will live outside that walled garden. All of that said, given my poor cell site coverage I do like the VoWiFi SIP capabilities so maybe I can find a dumb phone that can do sip. Maybe something like the Nokia 2720 flip but without FB/Google junk.
Yeah, it's nearing time to replace my smartphone and I absolutely don't want to replace it with another smartphone. I'm struggling to find a real dumbphone, though. The ones that I've found that purport to be one (including the Nokia 2720) aren't dumbphones, they're minimalistic smartphones.
I fear that there is no non-smartphone option on the market anymore.
I fear that there is no non-smartphone option on the market anymore.
I suspect you are right. I keep finding phones that pretend to be dumb phones but it often turns out they are running Android and that leads me down the hole of trying to find others that were able to use adb to mostly de-google and that's even less likely than finding results for my less popular ulefone.
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