Q. Is this really as harmful as you think?

A. Go to your parents house, your grandparents house etc and look at their Windows PC, look at the installed software in the past year, and try to use the device. Run some antivirus scans. There’s no way this implementation doesn’t end in tears — there’s a reason there’s a trillion dollar security industry, and that most problems revolve around malware and endpoints.

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      6 months ago

      Are you… Are you saying EVERYTHING can be hacked with one line of code?

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        6 months ago

        Ever since those Aliens brought us their ancient and mysterious line separator tech, we have all we need to do just that!

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          6 months ago

          Independence day was indeed a great movie. Who would have thought they also use X86 architecture?