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Just-In-Timeberlake
Aug 18, 2003
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/man-finds-usb-stick-with-heathrow-security-plans-queens-travel-details/

quote:

On the flash drive were 76 folders of files, including security documents and maps of the airport. The maps included the location of every closed circuit television (CCTV) camera at the airport; routes and security protection measures for the Queen, Cabinet ministers and visiting foreign dignitaries; and maps of the airport's tunnels and escape shafts for the Heathrow Express train station.

unencrypted no less

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Rooney McNibnug
Sep 2, 2008

"Life always hopes. When a definite object cannot be outlined, the indomitable spirit of hope still impels the living mass to move toward something--something that shall somehow be better."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPdwQ-jcLCo

Wiggly Wayne DDS
Sep 11, 2010



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VydJ8LYyhM

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418


so if you are already a bad rear end, kaspersky might be right for you

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013





it's so awkward to hear him say "eugene"

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




юджин касперский, крейсер мне в бухту

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We
signal for desktop is finally out, nice https://signal.org/blog/standalone-signal-desktop/

cinci zoo sniper posted:

юджин касперский, крейсер мне в бухту

docudrama about the life of kaspersky with dmitry nagiev as kaspersky would be p good

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

docudrama about the life of kaspersky with dmitry nagiev as kaspersky would be p good

why not just kaspersky in okna

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We

cinci zoo sniper posted:

why not just kaspersky in okna

he would never go viral

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

he would never go viral

get out

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
it'll probably work on ubuntu linux for windows. i'm gonna install it for ubuntu linux for windows.

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




http://mashable.com/2017/10/31/putting-iphone-x-face-id-to-twin-test/#.QzsBavAKqqD

Jewel
May 2, 2009

new assassins creed is crippling peoples' cpus and people investigated and worked out why

https://twitter.com/worstanime/status/925469902697148416
https://twitter.com/JakeZambas/status/925474493216067584
https://twitter.com/worstanime/status/925470134768099328

because games need this level of protection

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418


you mean a system for recognizing faces couldn't tell the difference between twins who real people have trouble telling the difference between? :monocle:

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Jewel posted:

because games need this level of protection

yes, protection from you, filthy poor person and your filthy torrenting trying to get away with not paying sixty shiny dollars to ubisoft

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

Jewel posted:

new assassins creed is crippling peoples' cpus and people investigated and worked out why

https://twitter.com/worstanime/status/925469902697148416
https://twitter.com/JakeZambas/status/925474493216067584
https://twitter.com/worstanime/status/925470134768099328

because games need this level of protection
lmao

don't buy ubisoft games you loving morons

Jewel
May 2, 2009

its running noted near-virus DRM Denuvo alongside VMProtect which isn't even built for games; making the estimated impact 30-40% lol. i feel sorry for devs who had to do so much crunch to make the game run faster for that poo poo to get slapped on top

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

Jewel posted:

new assassins creed is crippling peoples' cpus and people investigated and worked out why

[bunch of stuff]

because games need this level of protection

on the one hand don't buy bad games etc., on the other, you don't break your cpu by using it, and calling into a specific pe section once a second is in and of itself basically no information at all

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


ac: origins is a Good Game by most accounts but loving lmao at that copy protection secfuck

think i'll wait to play that, do mario odyssey instead

Daman
Oct 28, 2011
https://twitter.com/zerosum0x0/status/925486850399019009


how many fuckups can you spot

* probably just hashing the file as a signature
* flagging a legitimate driver as malware just because malware is using it to get kernel code exec
* these AV companies should probably flag eachothers drivers, as there's infinite admin->kernel bugs in those too

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge

anthonypants posted:

lmao

don't buy games you loving morons

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
no you should definitely buy wolfenstein 2

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


i thought we were way past the point of maxing out cpus being able to cause damage. isn't there the world of thermal throttling to happen long before anything cooks?

Jewel
May 2, 2009

Thanks Ants posted:

i thought we were way past the point of maxing out cpus being able to cause damage. isn't there the world of thermal throttling to happen long before anything cooks?

on new computers, yeah. on the typical computer i see most people have, oof. my old computer was regarded as high end compared to a surprisingly large chunk of my friends' and i accidentally started hitting like 80-90c on some games at the end of its life. it definitely needed a clean but still, poo poo gets bad

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender

Daman posted:

https://twitter.com/zerosum0x0/status/925486850399019009


how many fuckups can you spot

* probably just hashing the file as a signature
* flagging a legitimate driver as malware just because malware is using it to get kernel code exec
* these AV companies should probably flag eachothers drivers, as there's infinite admin->kernel bugs in those too

having seen a literal flow chart for how AV sometimes runs through its definitions, this doesn't at all surprise me

Hed
Mar 31, 2004

Fun Shoe

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

signal for desktop is finally out, nice https://signal.org/blog/standalone-signal-desktop/


docudrama about the life of kaspersky with dmitry nagiev as kaspersky would be p good

I always thought Philip Seymour Hoffman would have been perfect to play the role of Eugene

Haquer
Nov 15, 2009

That windswept look...

Lain Iwakura posted:

having seen a literal flow chart for how AV sometimes runs through its definitions, this doesn't at all surprise me

but heuristics

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

Jewel posted:

new assassins creed is crippling peoples' cpus and people investigated and worked out why

https://twitter.com/worstanime/status/925469902697148416
https://twitter.com/JakeZambas/status/925474493216067584
https://twitter.com/worstanime/status/925470134768099328

because games need this level of protection

"8 dual cores" hmm yes this guy definitely knows what he's talking about

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

fishmech posted:

"8 dual cores" hmm yes this guy definitely knows what he's talking about
tbf that guy's different from the other two, the op posted this https://twitter.com/worstanime/status/925473452546408448

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

anthonypants posted:

tbf that guy's different from the other two, the op posted this https://twitter.com/worstanime/status/925473452546408448

yeah i just wanted to make fun of that middle guy

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We
these gamer nerds should be thankful ubisoft doesn’t literally put a bitcoin miner in there

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



video games are bad

abigserve
Sep 13, 2009

this is a better avatar than what I had before
It boggles my mind that anyone still buys assassin creed games

the first one? Amazing. Unlike anything else released at the time.
The second one? Better than the first in every way though the annoyances are starting to show (yes, please, playing as the extremely lame people in modern days was fun, lets keep doing this)
The third? Ok the formula has officially gotten old now I'm not going to buy any more of these game

what are they up to now, like, 7 games?

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

these gamer nerds should be thankful ubisoft doesn’t literally put a bitcoin miner in there

That's for the first expansion pack.

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


abigserve posted:

It boggles my mind that anyone still buys assassin creed games

the first one? Amazing. Unlike anything else released at the time.
The second one? Better than the first in every way though the annoyances are starting to show (yes, please, playing as the extremely lame people in modern days was fun, lets keep doing this)
The third? Ok the formula has officially gotten old now I'm not going to buy any more of these game

what are they up to now, like, 7 games?

apparently origins changes up the formula a lot (by cribbing hardcore from tw3) but i can't tell because the thing doesn't run right half the time

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

Ciaphas posted:

apparently origins changes up the formula a lot (by cribbing hardcore from tw3) but i can't tell because the thing doesn't run right half the time
the big asscreed game in revolutionary france was so bad that immediately after the game came out, while they tried to fix it, they made one of the at-the-time-unreleased dlc packs free, and gave a free game to people who bought the game/season pass bundle

the game that came after that, the big asscreed game before this egypt one, was the one where you could buy these real-life items

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNvYJ0CjB2k

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

cheese-cube posted:

video games are bad

counterpoint: nintendo

the new metroid game is so fuckin' good

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


anthonypants posted:

the big asscreed game in revolutionary france was so bad that immediately after the game came out, while they tried to fix it, they made one of the at-the-time-unreleased dlc packs free, and gave a free game to people who bought the game/season pass bundle

the game that came after that, the big asscreed game before this egypt one, was the one where you could buy these real-life items

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNvYJ0CjB2k

yeah that was... pretty goddamn dire

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT
Syndicate was awesome. Sorry sick cart demo derbies through Victorian London isn't fun for u.

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haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
1: felt more like a proof of concept than a complete game but had enough new ideas and did them well enough to be decent

2: the complete game made after the proof of concept got approved. night and day better, probably one of the most improved sequels ever

brotherhood: complete game polished and with some good new stuff added

revelations: shine is wearing off, core ideas are no longer new and exciting

3: major misstep, broke a lot of stuff that worked

black flag: good pirating game with unfortunate mandatory AC segments

unity: trainwreck, bad game full of technical issues (although it did have the best bug)

syndicate: supposedly good

origins: good again I guess, changes up the formula a lot

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