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  • So, this is a basic security principle. If the system of access is too “secure” or too inconvenient, people will create workarounds.

    Need keys for all the doors every second of every day? You’ll find duct tape on all the latches.

    Password is 15 characters and changes every 60 days? You’re going to find post-its under keyboards.

    Spread all digital content across 8 streaming providers that cost about $180/y? Torrent time.

    Nintendo wants to brick users for trying to play an out of region game they paid for? They’ll never pay again and will reverse engineering your shit out of spite.

    Same thing we saw with the music industry utterly failing to embrace internet distribution. Limewire and bearshare are their fucking lunch.

    When will they learn to just make access easy? People, generally, would rather pay than pirate but when you start making shit difficult, nobody wants to play your games anymore and you see massive losses.

    Meet your customers where they’re at!













  • It’s a difficult enough task that I would probably be unable to suspend disbelief.

    That said, if your hero has some time and a soldering kit it would be fairly doable and relatively believable. Also keep in mind that most flash drives now have the contacts for the USB port as part of The printed circuit board that has the actual storage on it and usually the actual storage would be encased in resin, at least with a good flash drive.

    The cheap ones, you could totally do this though.




  • I’d like to think that now that Ukraine knows this, they will be quiet about North Korean prisoners. It’s the right choice ethically, but I think there’s probably also stragic gain to be had.

    Also, North Korea is dumb, but they’re not plumb dumb. If they kill enough soldiers’ families, they’ll have morale issues. They’re smart enough to “make a few examples” just to keep em terrified. Evil enough too. The whole situation sickens me. Like, I wasn’t a fan of them before but this is a whole new level of evil.

    Sacrificing thousands of human lives just to get military tech.

    NK needs to be conquered and liberated.