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Donald Trump, if you can hear me...

Yep, hard to feel bad when the whole reason they're in this mess is because they tried to introduce FYD about their own product as an argument why open models need to be banned.

I think massgrave has a link to the iso on the Microsoft website in their listing of windows versions.

Do you have a source for literally any of those allegations?

I'm as big of a Windows and ME hater as they come, but I'm not aware of any proven backdoors in either. Especially ME, which has been thoroughly reverse-engineered by the security community by this point. The only 'backdoor' discovered was the undocumented killswitch command that disables it after initialization.


> Especially ME, which has been thoroughly reverse-engineered by the security community by this point.

Links? Activists say the opposite, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Assert...


Not the parent, but have you heard of Snowden leaks? Also this from the old times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

Snowden says nothing about backdoor'ed Windows.

And _NSAKEY... There is no evidence that it was ever part of a backdoor. But it is good for a laugh.


It's safe to assume that Windows is backdoored, as it's closed, not audiatable and is a part of PRISM. It's not a proof, but this is how good opsec works.

And yes, this is not equivalent to what the parent said, but your reaction should be similar.


While it is closed, we've had enough leaks from that era of Windows (which are still on GH) to know the kernel is not backdoor'ed.

So far there haven't been any instances of that, from what I'm aware of.

A particular foreign nation, on the other hand...


That's the goal, though.

The current batch of elite have come up in a place where they have no real incentive to act in any way except that of their choosing. They're also exceedingly thin-skinned. If they think they can get away with ruining people who criticize them online, they'll do so.


> The actual average user is fine.

I'm afraid i have some unfortunate news..

>t. someone who deals with "average users" on a daily basis.


Do you really? How? I haven’t done IT, but I would expect you to mostly see people who’d broken something.

If anything, its the opposite, going by the number of users with anime girl pfps on Twitter and other social media posting slurs and bigotry.

It's moreso only a loose indicator the user is between the ages of 14-30, if anything.


...hence the protesting?

More like `people - brown people = success` among the crowd

Why would a conservative want to pretend that? When was the last time you actually talked to one?

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