Mindwipe

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by Mindwipe 10mo ago
No, it's not a given that users can add their own keys - certainly in an anticheat scenario they probably couldn't, or at least if they did then key attestation would stop working.
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by Mindwipe 10mo ago
The OEM could control it in hardware and a secure part of the chipset could validate the OS integrity and sign the relevant key (which is what Apple does with SIP on a managed MacOS installation).
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by Mindwipe 10mo ago
Indeed running a VM is an exploiter's dream, unless the VM is essentially run by a hardware hypervisor (akin to Android's system).
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by Mindwipe 10mo ago
That wouldn't be sufficient. You'd need a hardware component to verify the OS signature of the specific distro with a trusted (by the game company) asymmetric key, and that enforced driver signing. Those things are all possible, b
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by Mindwipe 10mo ago
The Switch has good security as long as you can check the OS version robustly. Any Switch game using an anti-cheat solution that can't trivially detect that it's being emulated is... not using a very good anti-cheat solution.
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by Mindwipe 10mo ago
It does mean that a signed OS image is running, so demonstrates that the kernel was unaltered at start-up. It also demonstrates further levels of driver signing robustness.
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by Mindwipe 11mo ago
Well, it's not intractable if it's pushed to the underlying hardware and signed drivers. Valve could build something into their chipset and start signing the Steam Deck drivers, create secure boot etc and essentially create an A
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by Mindwipe 11mo ago
Also Microsoft closing the kernel to non-MS/non-driver Ring 0 software is inevitable after Crowdstrike, but they can't do that until they have a solution for how anti-cheat (and other system integrity checkers) is going to work. S
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by Mindwipe 11mo ago
This story seems overly kind. They aren't going to do anything to fix Windows burning platform, and just try and cram in more AI. A PR statement that amounts to "we still love you" with no action whatsoever means nothing. We&
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by Mindwipe 11mo ago
It's just an understandable reluctance to insert a bunch of additional dependencies in your playback stack unless you really, really have to. People underestimate how much engineering Netflix have put in over the years to get it to wor
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by Mindwipe 11mo ago
A fairly poor piece. It fundamentally doesn't understand tokenisation. It claims that you could have an age verification token that doesn't reveal to the government what you were trying to view, but how would that work? The site r
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by Mindwipe 11mo ago
Also fun fact - subtitles did not work on the Wii at all if you were running a video streaming service! The BBC spent literally years trying to engineering something that did not result in it being unable to playback video smoothly and fail
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by Mindwipe 11mo ago
It's incredibly fragile at the CDN level if deployed at scale for a start. You'd see playback issues go up by 1000%. In the nicest possible way, it is pretty clear that this article was written by somebody who has only ever looked
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by Mindwipe 11mo ago
It is harder than you think and will break on many more devices than you think.
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by Mindwipe 1y ago
> Passkeys are great because they get sync'ed to all your devices, which makes it really easy to share access to those websites with other people ( who have access to devices on your account ). Like a spouse. They certainly fucking
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by Mindwipe 1y ago
> If you have to buy a second device to use Netflix, so be it, but we need laws that guarantee people can make digital payments without Apple or Google's permission. The reality is however that if you look at active current projects
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by Mindwipe 1y ago
No, but they have the power to have you arrested for non-payment of the fine when you arrive at the airport.
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by Mindwipe 1y ago
Completely correct. The only way to ensure this doesn't happen is to criminalise device manufacturers being in charge of what software runs on their devices.
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by Mindwipe 1y ago
Pretty much none of the kernel level features work.
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by Mindwipe 1y ago
That is... a bit of an oversimplifciation. Tools like Battle eye and EAC are not just one tool that gives a binary answer, they are tools that detect a huge range of heuristics about the device and how easy it is to interfere with the memor
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by Mindwipe 1y ago
Almost every country in the world apart from the US pays authors for library lending.
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by Mindwipe 1y ago
YouTube's delivery scale is enormous and adding additional complexity if they don't have to is probably considered a no no. But if they decide they have to, they can do it fairly trivially.
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by Mindwipe 1y ago
> I love how enthusiastic this post is while being wrong. This is a very funny thing to say given that post is entirely correct, while you are wrong. > Making a copy of a thing does not violate copyright Yes it does, unless it's
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by Mindwipe 1y ago
> It is legal to download movies in the United States. No it isn't. It's not a criminal offense, but if someone can sue you for it and win then it isn't "legal" under any technical or popular definition of the w
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by Mindwipe 1y ago
No it isn't. Format shifting and personal copying are legal in Poland, but you as an individual still have to have legally obtained your original in the first place to exercise that right, and an illicit download certainly doesn't
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by Mindwipe 1y ago
Netflix only serves 720p (or below) video to any platform that does not encrypt the video path that prevents OBS or anything else from screen recording.
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by Mindwipe 1y ago
No it wouldn't.
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by Mindwipe 1y ago
Anything that's had an official YouTube app for the past nine years does, because it's been a hard requirement for a YouTube port that long. It's much more likely YouTube just doesn't want to mess with it's caching
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by Mindwipe 1y ago
Primarily because they contractually promised the music industry they'd do everything they can to prevent tools that allow the downloading of copyrighted music from the service.
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by Mindwipe 1y ago
This is a really rough UI update to ship out of Apple. I don't want to use "the worst UI thing they've ever done" lightly, but it is hard to think of something that feels this unfinished and hard to use. Why are none of

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