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fair enough. i can see that disabling safe mode would be a decent security measure. but by the time that kind of exploit is used, you’ve already got bad actors inside your network and there are much easier methods available to pivot to other devices and accounts.

there’s an easy fix. it could be done with a single boot attempt if M$ hadnt made it so needlessly difficult to enter safe mode

feel free to file this comment under the heading “old man yells at clouds” , but it is just kind of comically dystopian to talk about concepts like “losing shoe functionality” or having features of your shoes bricked. it makes me laugh in an “otherwise i’d be crying” kind of way

they ran out of boxes, not nuggets

wow, i thought it would be a while before someone had the chutzpah to out-greed Battlestate Games. I definitely need to stop giving these corporations the benefit of the doubt. but of course, the culprit is Riot.

probably the logo/branding

the problem is that the AI misrepresents those results it’s summarizing. it represents things that were jokes as fact without showing that information in context. i guess if you dont think criticaly about the information you consume this would be handy. i feel like AI is just abstracting both good and bad info in a way that makes discerning which is which more difficult, and whether you find that convenient or not, its just bad for society.

spotify is a terrible company. at this point i feel like they have brand hostages rather than brand loyalty. i dont know anybody whos actually happy with the spotify experience any more.

in this example, its like disabling the firewall and plugging directly into the modem with no router. in that case, there’s no local network and no router firewall in place. wrt ports needing exploits, that’s correct. the thing about that is that there are definitely exploits being used in the wild that we dont know about. Microsoft’s May security update fixed 3 critical vulnerabilities that were being actively exploited. sophisticated attackers use exploit chains, where one vulnerability gets a foothold then others are deployed in a way that circumvents most common security measures inside the affected OS to gain admin rights. so in short, the scenario you describe is not as implausible as you think it might be.

I’m sorry, but disabling the firewall makes this a wasted exercise. ANY computer connected directly to the internet without a firewall will get infected. Even PCs with modern, up to date OSes.