Usbguard, locked bios, and disallowing booting from USB. Good luck to them I guess.

Stasi 2.0

Every new internet-connected feature they add seems to also increase attack surface, so this is a weird dilemma. Still better to keep things up to date in the short term. In the long term, I’ve made the choice to switch to an OS that respects user preferences.

Edit: I’ve also heard that the Windows 11 IoT enterprise edition doesnt come with all this bloat but still gets regular security updates

“Got it, I’ll send you fewer unsolicited dick pics”

YouTube is also guilty of this behavior. Every month it’s “got it, we’ll show you fewer shorts”. Zero. I want zero.

If it’s for waking up at a scheduled time, why not go with a dedicated alarm clock that only needs a wall plug and maybe a backup battery?

Because it’s a popular story with a computer game adaptation. There’s a radio drama of the same story, as well. No reason to buy it unless you’re a collector. The story can be found online pretty easily https://archive.org/details/i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-scream_202202/mode/1up

1 hr old with that many similar sounding comments. It’s definitely suspect

And then gets away with it because they’re operating the robot from a country that doesn’t have extradition treaties with the victim’s country

I, for one, look forward to reading about the ensuing robotically-assisted murders of ultrawealthy folk who think this is a good idea

No. Lockdown is not the same as BFU. Lockdown just turns off biometric unlocking.

The latter is true. Phone needs to be in BFU to work against cellbrite, I figure. Lockdown only turns off biometrics and makes the phone unlockable with a pin or password instead, iirc.

When you reboot the phone, it is in the BFU state where everything is still encrypted until the user unlocks the phone, as I understand it. https://blogs.dsu.edu/digforce/2023/08/23/bfu-and-afu-lock-states/

From the GOS forums, it looks like as long as you keep your phone up-to-date, block USB data in the locked state, and the phone is in the before-first-unlock state, cellbrite still can’t break into it

I opt out by never connecting it to the internet.

Oh, lovely. Getting bought out by private equity is surely a sign that a company is doing well /s.

Let’s see how much worse EA gets as the private equity firm tries to extract even more value.

History doesn’t repeat, but it sure as hell rhymes.

Does Microsoft understand consent?

[ ] yes

[ ] ask me again later

Especially those developed/maintained within US jurisdiction

Oh nice. An even worse Torment Nexus