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BOP

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I always recommend paying for email if you want guaranteed privacy — at least between you and your provider’s mail servers. You want encryption at rest with no backdoors for law enforcement so that the provider can’t comply with any otherwise lawful orders.
Who do you recommend, because that's my conclusion as well. It's the decisions that get me spinning in circles. That's the real reason I like In-n-Out so much: limited choices. Okay, the food is good, as long as you eat it while it's hot. Hamburger, cheeseburger; double hamburger, double cheeseburger. Fries, large or small. 3 flavors of milk shake. Sodas, but I don't drink sodas; never have, except on long deployments. I love the limited menu.
 

BOP

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I don't mid the updates as much anymore, used to pizz me off to no end. Between MS getting better about making sure the code actually works, and my installing an NVMe in place of the SSD (which is the best thing I've ever done to any of my PCs), the updates and reboots are fast and have been trouble-free.
My issue with MS is that they treat every single end user the way NMCI treated their end user: every end user, unless officially exempted (like S&T seats) got treated exactly the same. Everyone got the same software, or no one did. The only exception that I can recall was MS Project. I literally gave up my copy of Project so that one of my contractors could have it installed on her computer. That was very specific and deliberate. Maybe it's because it wasn't part of the Office Suite? I'm not sure. Never cared enough to look it up.

But I noticed that enterprise-like behavior out of MS years ago, with Xbox. They treated it like the purchase of the Xbox was merely paying rent; that it was really their machine, along with the network, and so on.
 

Kyle

Beloved Misanthrope
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But I noticed that enterprise-like behavior out of MS years ago, with Xbox. They treated it like the purchase of the Xbox was merely paying rent; that it was really their machine, along with the network, and so on.

Just wait until you see their plans for MSAmerica.
 

BOP

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I don't mid the updates as much anymore, used to pizz me off to no end. Between MS getting better about making sure the code actually works, and my installing an NVMe in place of the SSD (which is the best thing I've ever done to any of my PCs), the updates and reboots are fast and have been trouble-free.
I have to confess, I haven't kept up since probably I started using PCI, but I thought the whole purpose of using RAM was to make the VM go away after the session was over; that non-volitile memory keeps that alive. Isn't that a vulnerability, or am I misunderstanding the whole thing?
 

BOP

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Just wait until you see their plans for MSAmerica.
I've seen Braxton's video, but haven't watched it yet. I'm almost afraid to; make me more paranoid than I already am.

Edit: that whole "put an Apple in every classroom" project doesn't seem to have panned out very well.
 
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Sneakers

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I have to confess, I haven't kept up since probably I started using PCI, but I thought the whole purpose of using RAM was to make the VM go away after the session was over; that non-volitile memory keeps that alive. Isn't that a vulnerability, or am I misunderstanding the whole thing?
Not something I ever considered. As far as I see it, it is a non-volatile replacement for the SSD/HDD, but it's on a different high speed direct access bus. If you power down, it's not accessible, just like an SSD/HDD, but the info is still there. The OS treats it like a hard drive.

The benefit is the incredible performance increase due to being on the direct access bus, no IDE, SATA, etc....
 

HemiHauler

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Who do you recommend, because that's my conclusion as well. It's the decisions that get me spinning in circles. That's the real reason I like In-n-Out so much: limited choices. Okay, the food is good, as long as you eat it while it's hot. Hamburger, cheeseburger; double hamburger, double cheeseburger. Fries, large or small. 3 flavors of milk shake. Sodas, but I don't drink sodas; never have, except on long deployments. I love the limited menu.

Check out Hushmail or Protonmail. Both are located outside the US - Canada and Sweden, respectively.
 
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BOP

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Check out Hushmail or Protonmail. Both are located outside the US - Canada and Sweden, respectively.
Protonmail it is. After the whole trucker debacle, I don't trust anything Canadian. Not when their government can get their grubby dick-skinners ahold of it.
 

HemiHauler

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Protonmail it is. After the whole trucker debacle, I don't trust anything Canadian. Not when their government can get their grubby dick-skinners ahold of it.
The Swedes have much better privacy laws so can’t go wrong there.
 
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HemiHauler

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I tried to install Tor browser, and MalwareBytes went batsh*t crazy.


I think the Tor browser probably does some gnarly things with network stacks that caused that.

Tor is only anonymous when you visit onion sites. Not so much when browsing regular internet sites.

Initial funding for Tor was provided by the US Department of State and developed at NRL. I wouldn’t trust it even for general privacy, ie, legal activities that you’d rather keep private.
 
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GURPS

INGSOC
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This is how out-of-touch I am...I didn't know AOHell was still around, and I certainly didn't know yahoo was now verizon. No wonder I'm getting so many spam emails.


AOL the company was consumed yrs ago ... Verizon bought AOL, then later sold off AOL and Yahoo to a Private equity firm
 
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