In my experience that's how 3DS actually works though, you have 8 minutes to approve the transaction in your bank app and your bank app usually has it's own security to actually access it to accept the transaction

It's an open secret that Windows is backdoored for the NSA to be fair and that isn't even including the truly dodgy stuff like Intel Management Engine being a backdoor on a BIOS level with remote access

Do you have a source for literally any of those allegations?

I'm as big of a Windows and ME hater as they come, but I'm not aware of any proven backdoors in either. Especially ME, which has been thoroughly reverse-engineered by the security community by this point. The only 'backdoor' discovered was the undocumented killswitch command that disables it after initialization.

> Especially ME, which has been thoroughly reverse-engineered by the security community by this point.

Links? Activists say the opposite, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Assert...

"Activists" =/= "Security Experts".

Like I said, ME has been literally almost completely everse engineered and no one's found evidence of it being a backdoor.

everything in that article could legitimately just be attack vector reduction

Not the parent, but have you heard of Snowden leaks? Also this from the old times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

Snowden says nothing about backdoor'ed Windows.

And _NSAKEY... There is no evidence that it was ever part of a backdoor. But it is good for a laugh.

While it is closed, we've had enough leaks from that era of Windows (which are still on GH) to know the kernel is not backdoor'ed.

I would put my money on that these leaks have full source code. Also, currently, Windows even AFAIK sends keystrokes to the US, where NSA has full access to any company whenever they need by the law, with no oversight. No backdoors are required.

Too late to edit, I would't put my money on the reliability of these leaks for security-relevant decisions.

> Also, currently, Windows even AFAIK sends keystrokes to the US,

This is exactly the kind of FUD I'm pushing back against. You just casually mention this like it's some established fact. Do you have any proof of this?

Surely it would be extremely easy to verify, given that anyone can set up a Windows 10/11 VM with mitmproxy and see every outgoing connection. I myself have quite a number of those VMs for various application-related RE projects, and let me tell you, I've never noticed every single one of my outgoing keystrokes present in the logs.

You'd think it might stand out...

Do you really think the most used US-based operating system does not have backdoor?

It's not just that, many years ago an Israeli friend explained to me, when I was puzzled that images of the IDF could have been of the US Army because most of their equipment was US-made, that the US sent monetary aid to Israel which was then immediately returned to the US in the form of arms purchases. So the "aid" was really a US taxpayer-funded subsidy for US arms manufacturers, just without giving them the money directly. If you're a politician in a state with a huge BAE Systems manufacturing plant in it, are you going to vote to cut off the billion-dollar handout they're getting?

The whole ad is vague slop tbh, I can see why it wasn't allowed to air, also I don't know why people fixate on CCTV when the vast majority of it is used by private companies and the government doesn't have access to it without a request, there isn't any mass surveillance in this case just business owners managing risk and monitoring for crimes on their property

Honestly, I've never known any company that has a good promotion and career development structure. Most shoehorn you into management roles or force you to jump through hoops to get a promotion so nowadays I don't care as long as I get a decent salary, 33 days of annual leave and they let me take off 3 weeks to go to Japan every year

And Microsoft don't care in the slightest, they have lots of market share so they have been pivoting to the enshittification phase especially over the past few years... the UX is still a cluster fuck but hey there's plenty of space for ads and AI integration now

We have IVA in the UK but it is mostly used to import Japanese cars at the moment because you only need a few modifications to most cars (fog lights, indicators) and the Yen is weak at the moment so a lot of people are importing cars like the Suzuki Jimny which meet our standards but aren't sold due to Europe wide emissions regulations. You would have to do a lot more to an American car because the safety standards are different so it isn't an attractive option unless you really want a specific vehicle at any cost.

Yes, what America needs now is more students working in the grey economy after their student visa expires.

We either let them in and grow our economy or compete with them.

Right. It is also rather inconsistent to be the guy who says he is working on the trade imbalance, while simultaneously wrecking one of America's biggest export sectors: education, housing for education, and travel for education.

That's a little dramatic, many countries have this rule for visa applications.