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  1. Hello, These kind of attacks require dedicated, specialized hardware as well as direct access to the device by an adversary for enough time in order to perform the attack. If an attacker has that kind of access to the device then there are other higher-priority concerns that need to be addressed, such as why an attacker has unfettered access to the hardware. Thunderbolt controllers have security levels since at least 2013 (https://thunderbolttechnology....t%203%20and%20Security.pdf) and Microsoft themselves implemented DMA attack protection two years ago (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...rotection-for-thunderbolt). As far as I know, Microsoft has never documented the proprietary interfaces used by the Surface to connect docks, keyboards or other Microsoft accessories. Nobody can tell if these have DMA-accessible interfaces or other attack vectors as a result. This reads more like an attempt to justify design limitations of the Surface line as security benefits. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky
    14 points
  2. I don't know Rick, it looks fake. Let me call a buddy of mine who is an expert on lame excuses.
    10 points
  3. Finally! It takes a Coronavirus epidemic and its accompanying cloud burden to force Microsoft into optimizing its bandwidth use.
    4 points
  4. this is absolutely correct.
    4 points
  5. 2K Games announces WWE 2K Battlegrounds due out this fall

    Reminds me of MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch
    4 points
  6. Unacceptable when Google does it. Unacceptable when Microsoft does it. An installation/use should be earned, not accidently clicked.
    3 points
  7. * cue Mobius Enigma comment bashing other apps or other companies for the same behavior while simultaneously defending this here * ... or maybe there will be another one of many blatantly false or specious parallels, like saying that the Windows taskbar meant that Internet Explorer had tabbed browsing before its competitors did ... !
    3 points
  8. Microsoft begins serving Edge ads in the Search UI on Windows 10

    It's not an "ad" since it is neither paid third-party content, nor are you being sold anything by Microsoft. More accurately it's an informational or promotional message. By using that terminology sans quotes, you are feeding a particular narrative. Not a solid journalistic practice, in case that matters.
    3 points
  9. YouTube expands fact-checking feature to the U.S.

    Because youtube only shows bias against conservatives? Nope. Because conservatives believe a fallacy that only they get victimized on these platforms. It's not a fallacy if it's well established that many of these sources have a heavy left bias... The problem is that a lot of politics is based on opinion and not so much on true facts. Words are very easily twisted, and sources like Politifact and Washington Post are notorious for doing just that. This isn't some big secret...
    2 points
  10. Building a new PC.. Help!

    This is what I went with.. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KX2T3t
    2 points
  11. YouTube expands fact-checking feature to the U.S.

    Because youtube only shows bias against conservatives? Nope. Because conservatives believe a fallacy that only they get victimized on these platforms.
    2 points
  12. YouTube expands fact-checking feature to the U.S.

    This is needed, there are way too many BS vids on youtube that look and sound fancy but have very little facts in them. I won't go into the whole conspiracy theory bit but many times these vids try to connect the dots between random coincidence to match their bias. Very few people bother to fact check this stuff and just share it around. Hell, lots of stuff starts out as simple trolling and people latch on to it like a real thing. It's kind of funny and sad to, but many things that have more or less snowballed out of control started as a troll fest from our good old friends over at 4chan.
    2 points
  13. YouTube expands fact-checking feature to the U.S.

    Cue upset conservatives in 3...2...1 Fact checking is apparently a trigger word for them for an otherwise common sense thing to do.
    2 points
  14. EA needs to contact Hasbro and make a Battlefield game based on the 80s G.I. Joe Real American Hero cartoon series. I would only play as Cobra just to hear the Cobra Commander yell "COBRA RETREAT!" if we lose or the Cobra song from the movie intro if the team wins.
    2 points
  15. Microsoft's Surface Book 3 passes through FCC

    5G cAuSeS cOvId!
    2 points
  16. Meh , more like Deferentially
    2 points
  17. Facebook new design sucks with some things

    When I close images that I clicked on in the news feed, not only do they now open to a full page (rather than pop up like they used to) but they appear to need to "load" to close (a blue bar loads when you click on the X to close) worst design choice of this new Facebook I've seen so far. Also videos in Messenger take forever to load, the new Facebook is like wading through treacle/swimming through porridge BTW I did use the report a problem link to report this issue to Facebook.
    2 points
  18. Facebook new design sucks with some things

    Facebook new design sucks with some things I fixed the thread title for you.
    2 points
  19. Wow, Never had a problem like that in the U.K, is that just Verizon trying to get people to pay extra by getting a phone from them?
    2 points
  20. Microsoft says Surface PCs don't have Thunderbolt for security reasons

    Or they could include a port and allow you to disable it from the BIOS if you are that paranoid...
    2 points
  21. NVMe controllers, GPU, network adapters, etc. all have DMA, let's just remove them all so some far-fetched attackers can't have access to our browser history.
    2 points
  22. Microsoft says Surface PCs don't have Thunderbolt for security reasons

    Sounds like an excuse to sell you the surface dock.
    2 points
  23. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    Yup. Good odds SN-04 gets longer landing legs and the nose cone. 40/60 it gets fins.
    2 points
  24. As I mentioned before regarding a Thunderbolt on the Xbox X Series, the security is a big issue. Microsoft does get security, especially in hardware contexts. (20 years later and what are the ONLY consoles that have not been fully hacked or emulated? Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One.) I'm sure there will be several armchair security experts to claim MS doesn't know what they are talking about, but they very much do.
    2 points
  25. COVID-19 lockdown exposes digital poverty in the UK

    We are in an age where the price of education is hitting rock bottom but people find a way to be dumb. For example, I can buy a el-cheapo tablet ($50), find a free hotspot, and I can get access to +1 million books.
    2 points
  26. Correct yes. I wonder if USB4 shares the same insecurities.. Since USB4 will practically be TB3
    2 points
  27. Microsoft begins serving Edge ads in the Search UI on Windows 10

    Do not have to sell anything for it to be an ad
    2 points
  28. YouTube expands fact-checking feature to the U.S.

    This should be the case on a lot of media online and offline as well as governments to back up what is being said with facts, evidence and many sources because it's too easy not to do disinformation and the problem with that is that too many people buy into it without researching to see if there is any truth in it and that is really damaging to the fabric of democracies. So your message to the world is "Sit down, shut up and believe what your government tells you? Did I get it about right?" I think you used a double-negative somewhere in your post. Can you restate your message in a different way please? To easy not to do disinformation? What?
    1 point
  29. New Build -- Not Benchmarking as good

    Also I assume you know there shouldn't be any crap running in the background while it benchmarks, disable what you can.
    1 point
  30. YouTube expands fact-checking feature to the U.S.

    Citations are biased! I only believe arguments without supporting material!
    1 point
  31. Meh , more like Deferentially ZING!
    1 point
  32. Thanks for pointing this out. I have changed it so it makes more sense.
    1 point
  33. Well, I really just want ...
    1 point
  34. Microsoft says Surface PCs don't have Thunderbolt for security reasons

    What's next? No Windows 10 on Surface devices because ... security?
    1 point
  35. Come on man, you've tried to make this point everywhere that any Chinese manufacturer is mentioned. We get it, you believe that all Chinese hardware sends data home. Well done, but it's getting dull!
    1 point
  36. Welcome to the tech world! Hardware: Made in China to spy on you. Software: Made in USA to spy on you.
    1 point
  37. It's a bit more complicated than that but in a very basic way it's down to certified devices on their network. Verizon argues that because they own their network, they have a commitment to their customers that other devices will not hog everything on the network or cause issues with other devices and so will only allow devices on their network that have been thoroughly tested. And also, because of their 'security procedures' verizon certified devices cannot be loaded with non-official firmware hence why samsung etc. verizon phone has the bootloader locked with a special key So in other words it is Verizon bull for we want to make more money out of you lot, so we have restrictions. on what phone you can use on our network, but we will make it look like we are protecting you the consumer. We used to have that sort of thing in the UK years ago, BT or the General post office before it got privatised was the only ones who was allowed to supply the phone on their network, even after it was privitised they were fussy, now we can more or less connect what we want. the same with Modems on dial up all the years ago, had to BT approved, yeah, my Supra was not BT approved. Sorry but Verizon is just protecting their profits. Well both yes and no, it happens to help improve their profits sure, but there is also another non-public reason why they do it. But yes only american carriers care about specific certification to use their networks, the rest of the world has basically a global certification and once you've passed that you can go on any network (minus AT&T and verizon)
    1 point
  38. Microsoft begins serving Edge ads in the Search UI on Windows 10

    imagine having to put ads for your own products in your own products..
    1 point
  39. Microsoft says Surface PCs don't have Thunderbolt for security reasons

    So do M.2 ports yet MS still uses NVMe SSDs.
    1 point
  40. Microsoft says Surface PCs don't have Thunderbolt for security reasons

    Not since 2013, at least. There are numerous, very secure methods of limiting Thunderbolt’s (et al) DMA access, including using Intel’s VT-d to virtualize devices.
    1 point
  41. Then how does Apple manage to secure MacBooks while having thunderbolt?
    1 point
  42. differences between dell latitude 7480 and dell latitude e7480 ?

    ^Yeah, E#### is the 2016 (6th gen) brands. They dropped the E after 2017 (7th gen) brands.
    1 point
  43. AMD may not be debuting DDR5 memory support before 2022

    Hell, 16GB is plenty for most people and it seems to be reasonably priced. beyond this (like going from 16GB to 32GB) is overkill for most people. this will likely hold true for years to come as even 8GB is still easily good enough for many uses. I'd agree 16GB should be more commonplace. 8GB is starting to become a bit low end between 365, Chrome tabs, and LOB applications.
    1 point
  44. Microsoft begins serving Edge ads in the Search UI on Windows 10

    Hey, now you're onto something.
    1 point
  45. COVID-19 lockdown exposes digital poverty in the UK

    You know, when you know all about Duolingo, Gutenberg, Khan Academy etc it's easy to say look at all these free educational resources but imagine if you didn't have a computer. I'm pretty lucky, I've had a computer since I was young and got online a bit after but when my Windows XP install mucked in in 2008 my path to Linux started out with searches like "Free windows alternatives" which brought up a load of crud. I didn't know about Linux, Ubuntu, or the term "operating system", I was basically muddling along. I imagine it's a similar situation for people who don't have a computer or aren't online but they're set back even further than I was.
    1 point
  46. Microsoft begins serving Edge ads in the Search UI on Windows 10

    What is the point of the one in Search when Edgium is supposed to roll out to everyone anyway?
    1 point
  47. Canonical launches Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ‘Focal Fossa'

    luckily there's the likes of Mint and Manjaro in the Linux space now slowly overtaking Ubuntu.
    1 point
  48. AMD may not be debuting DDR5 memory support before 2022

    Buddy, you really don't need to tell someone who's looking forward to being able to get 64GB of memory on two sticks, that 8GB is good enough for most people. To his defense he wasn't talking in absolutes. It's true that right now even 8GB is enough for a large amount of people. Anyone doing light office work for example. People who also game are already at 16, which is enough for now as well. The rest who tend to do more heavy work loads who look at 32GB and more are really the minority.
    1 point
  49. 'Hey Google' hotword setup enhanced to improve accuracy

    I just say hey googoo
    1 point
  50. Buying an SSD enclosure with eSATA connectivity?

    Hello, eSATA (external SATA) is just SATA with a different connector (in most cases, I-shaped keying instead of L-shaped keying). There's no difference in protocol. Like conventional SATA interfaces, eSATA does not provide power, meaning an external drive needs to get power from another source. A variant of eSATA called eSATAp (eSATA Powered) provides an interface with eSATA pins on one side, and USB on the other (think of this like an a USB-C interface which has pins on both sides, or for a legacy interface, the 36-pin Centronics parallel cable interface). In that configuration, the USB side usually provides power for an external 2.5" eSATAp enclosure, just like a external 2.5" USB enclosures draw their power from the USB bus. Most, but not all, eSATA (and eSATAp) connections use SATA-II speeds (i.e., 3.0Gbit/s), and the USB side of the eSATAp is USB 2.0 speed (i.e., 480Mbit/s). However, there may be some motherboards or add-on expansion cards that offer eSATA/eSATAp with SATA 3.0 and USB 3.0 speeds (i.e., 6.0Gbit/s and 5.0Gbit/s, respectively). You may also find PC case brackets with an eSATA connector on them and a SATA cable leading back into the PC to plug into one of the motherboard's internal SATA connectors in order to use it as an eSATA port. Motherboard's may have a setting in the BIOS that allows internal ports to be specified for eSATA use, which allows drives attached to them to be ejected like a conventional USB (or FireWire) external drive. The main benefit of using eSATA instead of USB is that it does not require any additional overhead for encoding and decoding the SATA protocol insode the USB protocol, which in theory introduces some delay for the conversion and possibly some CPU overhead as well, especially for tasks involving a large amount of disk I/O. In practice, though, there usually isn't an appreciable difference in speed or performance (maybe 1-3%), and the convenience of using a USB connection. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky
    1 point