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      oyaji @Kilemall
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      @Kilemall said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:

      @oyaji said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:

      @Tazz said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:

      @oyaji NSA can probably get anything they need by accessing one’s browsing, download history, and web traffic, through an internet provider or group chat like Discord.

      Of course, if someone does get arrested and a computer is seized, they’ll just get a search warrant for it’s contents and have some 11 year old hack into it to retrieve everything else.

      Fck computers then.

      Psst they can open your mail!

      Legally?

      © 2015 - 2025 oyaji

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      • Lob12L
        Lob12
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        I did the update yesterday. Went smoothly except I got a black screen during the update and I had to manually restart my PC for it to finish.

        [IMG] https://image.ibb.co/nhhF0Q/new_sig_lob12.jpg [/IMG]

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        • TazzT
          Tazz @Lob12
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          @Lob12 Also go to Start>Settings>Advanced and see if there’s any additional updates for drivers.

          GTFO

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            oyaji
            last edited by oyaji

            How come that here in “The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread”, everybody but me has downloaded it?

            In that case, shouldn’t the thread really be called something more appropriate, like “The Official I Got Fuckt by Windows 11/Microsoft and Bill Gates Love Me Long Time ITB Thread”?

            © 2015 - 2025 oyaji

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            • LithuL
              Lithu
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              I’ll need to build a new PC because of this. This PC was built years ago and still plays any game I load into it. I asked Gpt for recommendations and it gave me a RTX 5090 as a reasonable choice…$2500k. How much is high end $10k!?!

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              • Gators1G
                Gators1 @Lithu
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                @Lithu said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:

                I’ll need to build a new PC because of this. This PC was built years ago and still plays any game I load into it. I asked Gpt for recommendations and it gave me a RTX 5090 as a reasonable choice…$2500k. How much is high end $10k!?!

                I agree with @Gpt . Helicopter explosions are a hard thing for low-end graphic cards to render.

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                • TazzT
                  Tazz
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                  Not just NSA…

                  Billions of Calls Exposed Via Unencrypted Satellites

                  The Discovery: Researchers used $800 consumer satellite equipment to intercept sensitive unencrypted data from geosynchronous satellites, including military communications, personal calls, and corporate data across 40% of Earth’s surface.
                  Why It Matters: The vulnerability threatens privacy of millions, compromises critical infrastructure, and exposes military operations. Major companies like T-Mobile have responded with encryption, while others remain at risk.

                  djohnson  /  Oct 14  /  Government

                  Researchers find a startlingly cheap way to steal your secrets from space

                  Researchers find a startlingly cheap way to steal your secrets from space

                  Using commercially available equipment, researchers scanned 39 satellites and observed sensitive, encrypted communications from telecoms, businesses and the U.S. military.

                  GTFO

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                    Blanks
                    last edited by Blanks

                    Reminds me of that time during a US war game in Europe, the bad guy side tracked troop movements by using Tinder. People are so accustomed to using devices that opsec goes out the window.

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                    • GustafG
                      Gustaf
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                      So, commies use Tinder?

                      "Let's give it a week! Still a disaster? Let's give it another week…" -Tazz

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                      • Gators1G
                        Gators1 @Tazz
                        last edited by

                        @Tazz said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:

                        Not just NSA…

                        Billions of Calls Exposed Via Unencrypted Satellites

                        The Discovery: Researchers used $800 consumer satellite equipment to intercept sensitive unencrypted data from geosynchronous satellites, including military communications, personal calls, and corporate data across 40% of Earth’s surface.
                        Why It Matters: The vulnerability threatens privacy of millions, compromises critical infrastructure, and exposes military operations. Major companies like T-Mobile have responded with encryption, while others remain at risk.

                        djohnson  /  Oct 14  /  Government

                        Researchers find a startlingly cheap way to steal your secrets from space

                        Researchers find a startlingly cheap way to steal your secrets from space

                        Using commercially available equipment, researchers scanned 39 satellites and observed sensitive, encrypted communications from telecoms, businesses and the U.S. military.

                        Satellites don’t encrypt, devices using them encrypt. If you stuck encryption on a satellite, then you would be stuck with that for the lifespan of the constellation. If you do it on the ground then you can update it over the years that the constellation is active.

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                        • JamJ
                          Jam @Gators1
                          last edited by

                          @Gators1 said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:

                          @Tazz said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:

                          Not just NSA…

                          Billions of Calls Exposed Via Unencrypted Satellites

                          The Discovery: Researchers used $800 consumer satellite equipment to intercept sensitive unencrypted data from geosynchronous satellites, including military communications, personal calls, and corporate data across 40% of Earth’s surface.
                          Why It Matters: The vulnerability threatens privacy of millions, compromises critical infrastructure, and exposes military operations. Major companies like T-Mobile have responded with encryption, while others remain at risk.

                          djohnson  /  Oct 14  /  Government

                          Researchers find a startlingly cheap way to steal your secrets from space

                          Researchers find a startlingly cheap way to steal your secrets from space

                          Using commercially available equipment, researchers scanned 39 satellites and observed sensitive, encrypted communications from telecoms, businesses and the U.S. military.

                          Satellites don’t encrypt, devices using them encrypt. If you stuck encryption on a satellite, then you would be stuck with that for the lifespan of the constellation. If you do it on the ground then you can update it over the years that the constellation is active.

                          Makes sense to encrypt/decrypt on the ground where a combination of software and hardware techniques may be employed, but it also should be possible to upload software for an extra level of encryption in orbit.

                          "laissez les bons temps rouler!"

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                          • TazzT
                            Tazz
                            last edited by

                            It was my understanding that the satellite is just a repeater that can handle many connections.

                            GTFO

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                              oyaji
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                              Mine too.

                              © 2015 - 2025 oyaji

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                              • Gators1G
                                Gators1 @Jam
                                last edited by

                                @Jam said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:

                                @Gators1 said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:

                                @Tazz said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:

                                Not just NSA…

                                Billions of Calls Exposed Via Unencrypted Satellites

                                The Discovery: Researchers used $800 consumer satellite equipment to intercept sensitive unencrypted data from geosynchronous satellites, including military communications, personal calls, and corporate data across 40% of Earth’s surface.
                                Why It Matters: The vulnerability threatens privacy of millions, compromises critical infrastructure, and exposes military operations. Major companies like T-Mobile have responded with encryption, while others remain at risk.

                                djohnson  /  Oct 14  /  Government

                                Researchers find a startlingly cheap way to steal your secrets from space

                                Researchers find a startlingly cheap way to steal your secrets from space

                                Using commercially available equipment, researchers scanned 39 satellites and observed sensitive, encrypted communications from telecoms, businesses and the U.S. military.

                                Satellites don’t encrypt, devices using them encrypt. If you stuck encryption on a satellite, then you would be stuck with that for the lifespan of the constellation. If you do it on the ground then you can update it over the years that the constellation is active.

                                Makes sense to encrypt/decrypt on the ground where a combination of software and hardware techniques may be employed, but it also should be possible to upload software for an extra level of encryption in orbit.

                                You could, but why would you need to double encrypt something? And it’s still vulnerable from the ground to the satellite if you wait to encrypt it in the sky. The device is just a radio that others can pick up when nearby.

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                                • JamJ
                                  Jam @Gators1
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                                  @Gators1 said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:

                                  @Jam said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:

                                  @Gators1 said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:

                                  @Tazz said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:

                                  Not just NSA…

                                  Billions of Calls Exposed Via Unencrypted Satellites

                                  The Discovery: Researchers used $800 consumer satellite equipment to intercept sensitive unencrypted data from geosynchronous satellites, including military communications, personal calls, and corporate data across 40% of Earth’s surface.
                                  Why It Matters: The vulnerability threatens privacy of millions, compromises critical infrastructure, and exposes military operations. Major companies like T-Mobile have responded with encryption, while others remain at risk.

                                  djohnson  /  Oct 14  /  Government

                                  Researchers find a startlingly cheap way to steal your secrets from space

                                  Researchers find a startlingly cheap way to steal your secrets from space

                                  Using commercially available equipment, researchers scanned 39 satellites and observed sensitive, encrypted communications from telecoms, businesses and the U.S. military.

                                  Satellites don’t encrypt, devices using them encrypt. If you stuck encryption on a satellite, then you would be stuck with that for the lifespan of the constellation. If you do it on the ground then you can update it over the years that the constellation is active.

                                  Makes sense to encrypt/decrypt on the ground where a combination of software and hardware techniques may be employed, but it also should be possible to upload software for an extra level of encryption in orbit.

                                  You could, but why would you need to double encrypt something? And it’s still vulnerable from the ground to the satellite if you wait to encrypt it in the sky. The device is just a radio that others can pick up when nearby.

                                  I think we agree.

                                  I just meant to add that one can do both.

                                  The encryption scheme local to the radio can be outside the radio and provide an additional layer.

                                  But . . .

                                  It’s probably unnecessary.

                                  "laissez les bons temps rouler!"

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                                  • GustafG
                                    Gustaf @Tazz
                                    last edited by

                                    @Tazz said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:

                                    It was my understanding that the satellite is just a repeater that can handle many connections.

                                    Your sister can handle many connections!

                                    "Let's give it a week! Still a disaster? Let's give it another week…" -Tazz

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                                    • TazzT
                                      Tazz
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                                      GTFO

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                                      • Gators1G
                                        Gators1 @Tazz
                                        last edited by

                                        @Tazz said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:

                                        It was my understanding that the satellite is just a repeater that can handle many connections.

                                        Basically yes. We have some encrypted traffic and some that’s not, but it’s up to the customer to enable that. The article was a bit weird talking about Tmobile texts that it said were unencrypted, but then later was talking about the metadata only. Usually the payload (message) would be encrypted if the customer wanted, but there is a wrapper of metadata that the satellite adds in plain text. They should be able to see like the device ID (IMEI or sim) and some other info, but at least on our network it’s obfuscated through algorithms.

                                        Also they were looking at geostationary constellations, which in theory you could monitor from a certain location, but it’s a bit harder for LEO constellations because the satellite is moving and handing off traffic as satellites move in and out of the region. Something like Starlink would be nearly impossible because you don’t know which of the thousands of satellites is connected to the device you want to monitor at any point in time. At least dozens are over a user at any point in time.

                                        I saw a story a while back about some old Navy communication satellites launched in the 70s or 80s that are basically repeaters and anybody can connect to them. It’s illegal to do that here, but in Brazil they don’t give a fuck about our laws so truckers or people in remote areas use them to call their friends and family. You can pick up the traffic on ham radios.

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                                        • JamJ
                                          Jam @Gators1
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                                          @Gators1

                                          This came as a shock to me:

                                          As of October 2025, there are approximately 8,475 Starlink satellites in orbit, with plans for up to 42,000 in the future. These satellites are part of SpaceX’s effort to provide global internet coverage.

                                          It stands to reason that there’d be a lot of them, but 8,500 headed to 42,000 was a surprise.

                                          Radio amateurs:

                                          https://hamradioprep.com/ham-radio-satellites/

                                          I remember the firs OSCAR which simply orbited the earth sending out HI in Morse code.

                                          … (another .) … (minus one .)

                                          Fucking forum only allows three of the same characters in a row, followed by either one “.” or “…” but not just two fucking dots!

                                          dit dit dit dit, dit dit

                                          "laissez les bons temps rouler!"

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                                          • TazzT
                                            Tazz @Gators1
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                                            @Gators1 yeah,a few years ago i saw a guy in Galveston with a hand held antenna pointed out high over the Gulf and a heasdset. He way probably monitoring some drug trafficking conversation.

                                            Do they still use the prick (PRC) 117? I’ve seen those as portable units as well as installed in planes.

                                            GTFO

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