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Thankfully we can federate bot posts to make that easier :P

This reminds me of when a coworker wrote a protocol around sending encrypted messages back and forth inside of gchat to control another PC.

The reason was that: our company firewall doesn't let stuff go in directly, but we have internet.

I thought that was a nutty tos violation.

Each system had a Google account and would login and listen for messages from the controller.

A Google search later: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy-and-control-over-your-recall-experience-d404f672-7647-41e5-886c-a3c59680af15

All local. Nothing sent. You can choose to not believe it, but it's deceptive to imply they don't say it's local.

If you don't believe them it's one thing but they said what they said.

What is the data used to freeze your credit? Why couldn't a bad actor with your SSN unfreeze it?

Edit: I just froze with the big 3 credit agencies. It took name, address, phone number, email, SSN, birthday.

So all the stuff that leaks. Why do people think this provides security if a bad actor has the same data to unfreeze?

I always worry the the backup USB drive would be dead.

I guess I'm one minority but kind of like an ability to fetch the key from the web. Doing that securely of course can be tough.

Yep. Someone thinks the Google name has some crazy value.

Probably bureaucracy. Also an inability to pivot even when things make no sense. Everything is a giant freight train that has very little ability to change direction or stop.

Oh and of course a healthy taste of not being transparent or honest.

Source: I used to work there years ago.

+1. Lots of people are also likely to not have any idea about the situation and just think their PC crashes or acts up more. More of these issues can pop up over time.

A recall forces them to notify customers of the issue so the customer can act on it.

If the product has issues it should be legally required to either have a warranty extension, recall, or both. Heck they shouldn't be selling more units until it's figured out and patched.

It's absurd to say: "it might have problems but we'll keep selling it as is".

We have safety recalls. There should be product degregation recalls.

'in the 10s'

.. man I feel old now lol.

That you have multiple fish tanks and a shrimp tank.