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I’m assuming the original post you replied to was meant to be a joke, since, like you pointed out, many or most people use RSA. I assume (using Occam’s Razor) that is more likely than them not knowing that and intending their post at face value.
I’m assuming the original post you replied to was meant to be a joke, since, like you pointed out, many or most people use RSA. I assume (using Occam’s Razor) that is more likely than them not knowing that and intending their post at face value.
Woosh? (Probably)
They didn’t mean the backdoor was (or was not) an accident. They meant the backdoor was implemented sloppily enough to be discovered and maybe that was not an accident (as in, he wanted it to be found, but still wanted to plausibly be seen as trying his best to keep those coercing him appeased)
But how is that a criticism of the Mac mini? All it does is give you purchasing flexibility (eg if you already own Apple kbd/mouse). It is like you are implicitly arguing that they should raise the price and include those components. But that would be bad for some consumers that already have those items and would help nobody because you can already buy those separately.
But in this context, desktop includes laptops. People still buy those.
I’m not sure that conclusion follows. There are many more potential future users than there are current users.
Your first sentence suggests you’re disagreeing, but nothing you said after that is incompatible with anything gp said.
I have fond memories of using my N900. But I would not have described it as well working :) It worked, sure, but not particularly well.
Only the April releases in even years are LTS
No but it can definitely work around issues like a congested link between isp and Google, resolving network-related YouTube performance issues.
Why don’t you use an apple kbd/mouse/trackpad with your macmini?
It seems like you are trying to protect against a compromise of the user’s device. But if their device is compromised then their session is compromised after auth anyway and you aren’t solving much with extra auth factors.
Then they shouldn’t “sell” it.
Boot the laptop from a USB memory stick that has a Linux installer on it.