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I would be willing to buy a XBOX 1 for the most notorious hacker on earth to hack it. I hate what Microsoft is doing and you would have to be a zip damn fool to support their bullshit. Those RMs bet not come around here with that bullshit. I got something for them motherfuckers

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Personally, I find "Kinect has a heart rate detector" the most creepy part of it.

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I'm no fan of big corporations generally but I find this video from SONY very funny:

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Ps. ...and PS4 has no mandatory living room spy camera unlike Xbox One.

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May you live in interesting times:

Spying on Americans before 9/11: NSA Built Back Door In All Windows Software by 1999.

...a 1999 article by leading European computer publication Heise which noted that the NSA had already built a backdoor into all Windows software:

A careless mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use, except early releases of Windows 95 (and its predecessors). The discovery comes close on the heels of the revelations earlier this year that another US software giant, Lotus, had built an NSA "help information" trapdoor into its Notes system, and that security functions on other software systems had been deliberately crippled.

The first discovery of the new NSA access system was made two years ago by British researcher Dr Nicko van Someren [an expert in computer security]. But it was only a few weeks ago when a second researcher rediscovered the access system. With it, he found the evidence linking it to NSA.

Two weeks ago, a US security company came up with conclusive evidence that the second key belongs to NSA. Like Dr van Someren, Andrew Fernandez, chief scientist with Cryptonym of Morrisville, North Carolina, had been probing the presence and significance of the two keys. Then he checked the latest Service Pack release for Windows NT4, Service Pack 5. He found that Microsoft's developers had failed to remove or "strip" the debugging symbols used to test this software before they released it. Inside the code were the labels for the two keys. One was called "KEY". The other was called "NSAKEY".

Fernandes reported his re-discovery of the two CAPI keys, and their secret meaning, to "Advances in Cryptology, Crypto'99? conference held in Santa Barbara. According to those present at the conference, Windows developers attending the conference did not deny that the "NSA" key was built into their software. But they refused to talk about what the key did, or why it had been put there without users' knowledge.

A third key?!

But according to two witnesses attending the conference, even Microsoft's top crypto programmers were astonished to learn that the version of ADVAPI.DLL shipping with Windows 2000 contains not two, but three keys. Brian LaMachia, head of CAPI development at Microsoft was "stunned" to learn of these discoveries, by outsiders. The latest discovery by Dr van Someren is based on advanced search methods which test and report on the "entropy" of programming code.

Within the Microsoft organisation, access to Windows source code is said to be highly compartmentalized, making it easy for modifications to be inserted without the knowledge of even the respective product managers.

Researchers are divided about whether the NSA key could be intended to let US government users of Windows run classified cryptosystems on their machines or whether it is intended to open up anyone's and everyone's Windows computer to intelligence gathering techniques deployed by NSA's burgeoning corps of "information warriors".

According to Fernandez of Cryptonym, the result of having the secret key inside your Windows operating system "is that it is tremendously easier for the NSA to load unauthorized security services on all copies of Microsoft Windows, and once these security services are loaded, they can effectively compromise your entire operating system". The NSA key is contained inside all versions of Windows from Windows 95 OSR2 onwards.

"How is an IT manager to feel when they learn that in every copy of Windows sold, Microsoft has a "back door" for NSA - making it orders of magnitude easier for the US government to access your computer?" he asked.

Only NSA can listen, so that's OK.

Giant US software manufacturer Lotus has been lowering the profile of information about how they have installed an NSA-only trapdoor into e-mail and conference systems used by many European governments, including the German Ministry of Defence, the French Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministry of Education in Latvia.

Last week in Brussels, Lotus staged a lavish "Global Government Forum" to try and gain more government customers for its software. They succeeded in striking a new 500,000 user deal with the Russian Ministry of Higher and Professional Education for the development of a new information infrastructure for the Russian education system. Yet another conference, Lotus Eurosphere '99, will be held in Berlin in October.

Lotus claims that its systems are inherently more secure than those from its main rival, Microsoft.
However, although details of how the NSA trapdoor works can still be found in some corners of the web (see IBM Redbook, Page 80), the key technical papers and press releases which reveal how Lotus worked with NSA to build a special trapdoor into the International Edition of Lotus Notes have disappeared from the web.

Visitors to the security pages on Lotus's website are now told that the export version of Lotus Notes uses "a system approved by the US government called "Workgroup Differential" and "encrypt(s) information using 64 bit keys".

The name "Workgroup Differential" is meaningless. The correct title is "Differential Workfactor Cryptography". The "differential workfactor" means that the US National Security Agency can break the code on Lotus Notes private messages 16 million times faster than anyone else.

How "Differential Workfactor Cryptography" works was revealed by Lotus itself three years ago. Although the documents concerned have now disappeared from the web, Telepolis has obtained copies.

In a keynote speech to the RSA Data Security Conference on 17 January 1996, Ray Ozzie, President of Lotus designers Iris Associates revealed how Lotus had come to terms with American government export controls, which prohibited the export of cryptographic systems with a key length over 40 bits.

He told them that no-one regarded this as secure:

"Our customers have lost confidence in 40-bit crypto. They told us that, if we were going to continue to market 40-bit Lotus Notes overseas, we should stop marketing it as a secure system -- that we should start to call it "data scrambling" or "data masking" instead of encryption".

Lotus's answer was a system that let NSA easily read foreign users' e-mail, while improving security against other eavesdroppers. In a paper distributed to the RSA conference, Security Project Leader Charles Kaufman explained in detail how the system worked.

When sending e-mail messages, Lotus uses a 64 bit key. But in export editions, 24 bits of the key are broadcast with the message, reducing the effective key length to 40 bits. The 24 bits are encrypted using a public key created by the NSA. This is called the Workfactor Reduction Field. Only NSA can decrypt the information in the Workfactor Reduction Field. Once the key length is reduced to 40 bits, fast modern computers can break the code in seconds or minutes.

Only Americans could think that this was an advantage for the Lotus system.

In 1996, Kaufman also revealed that Notes had to be weakened even further to prevent users from simply removing the NSA backdoor from being sent along with their messages. To prevent foreign users tampering with the workfactor reduction field, the International Edition of Lotus Notes will refuse to decipher any message which does not contain the correct field. To check this means that the entire key to the message has to be transmitted in the message. The recipient's software then checks that the workfactor reduction field is present and correct. The fact that the full key is sent along with the message creates the possibility of a second backdoor, reducing further.

Since these papers were presented openly, European governments have become aware of the enormous scale of communications monitoring by the NSA, and by the Echelon network in particular. The loophole in Lotus Notes made front page news in Sweden in November 1997. Although the company did not deny the allegation, they claimed that the American government would not "misuse" them.

Since the row in Sweden, both Lotus and RSA have removed the 1996 papers from their web sites. Another Lotus employee claimed "we haven't weakened the security of international encryption, but actually made it equal to the US security (to everyone but the NSA). We are proud of this arrangement" (our emphasis).

Only Americans could think that this was an advantage for the Lotus system. From the European perspective, the greatest threat may be economic and political espionage by NSA. With Lotus bent on increasing its markets in Europe, there must be serious questions about whether users are being told the whole truth about security.

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ISPs to include porn filters as default in the UK by 2014.

Next up we'll get swear word filters as standard - automatically replaceing every offensive word on the web with a nice and safe drawing of a happy little pink butterfly.

So who gets to decide what is and is not pornographic? This would probably already be affecting mixed-content sites.

First they sold you the "antivirus" programs by bombarding you with "threat" here and "chaos" there. Then these "antivirus" companies started to block Web sites containing "hate speech" (whatever the hell that even means). Then came the kiddie porn filter where political Web sites got "accidentally" mixed up in the block list. Now, a "porn filter" which is ON by default for everyone.

Next step is offensive word filter, then this filter and that filter. Filter here and filter there.

And then, there were walled gardens which filtered and dictated which "apps" you are allowed to have installed or uninstalled! They got you used to it with those "smart" devices where you couldn't uninstall the spyware crap they put inside them and now it comes to every operatin system near you shortly.

You know what the end result will be? Yes, you guessed it right! A TV! YES! They are turning your "personal comptuers" and "Internet" into a TV/Cable-TV.

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That's why when a forum starts dictating how you should speak or what "offensive words" get auto filtered, you should leave that forum. Leave that Web site never to return. It is bad for you and bad for the society.

That is why you should never trust any of those "news" Web sites which filter and delete "comments who do not follow their line of whatever agenda the Web site has" because they will delete related comments to tilt the subject, to tilt and distort reality the way "they" like it.

You cannot trust the comments on such forums or Web sites because you can never know what has been deleted or edited. You can never know which facts have been hidden. Perhaps facts which would prove the very same article to be wrong or a lie.

Trust in a Web site starts in the comments section. Trust in a forum starts with their filters and policies which dictate to you "how you should speak".

Who the hell do they think they are that dictate to you which words of the language you may or may not use? The language police? To all of you who support such forums, why are you OK with people forcing you to not use certain words of your language? Why do you allow them inside your head to filter the words out of your very own mind, which you were going to speak originally, for example the word "fuck"?

In here, we say... TO HELL WITH THEM.

THEY CAN FUCK OFF.

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Haha, just wait until when they require you to have a "publisher" upon creating an application as well. This is just the start.

Microsoft is sticking indie developers with the burden of being forced to find a publisher in order to sell their game.

Microsoft has taken an anti-indie dev stance with the Xbox One. While the game industry is moving to Kickstarter and self-funded shops, Microsoft has decided all developers must have a publisher to grace their console.

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LOL!

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Microsoft kills Xbox One phone-home DRM.

You would at first think "Yay! Good news!" but wait! Firstly, they can FUCK OFF for trying to pull a fast one on their customers in the first place. Just by that measure, they can fuck off.

Secondly, well, this guy explains is well:

Still no sale for me... Forcing you to buy $100 Kinect with the system? Tracking your gaming habits and selling the data if you are connected? Tracking your movements with Kinect at all times? Putting online features that are on the discs of games behind an XBL Gold paywall? Forcing XBL Gold subscriptions to use other online services through your Xbox? Paying MS money for XBL Gold only to be bombarded by advertisements?...

Who wants to PAY to have a SPY CAMERA AND MICROPHONE WHICH ALSO CHECKS YOUR FUCKING HEARTBEAT in their living room? I know who! Fools! Only a fool would buy an Xbox One.

Indeed, Microsoft can fuck off.

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As one of their employees said... what was it again? Ah yeah, Microsoft, you can FUCK OFF AND #DEALWITHIT!

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