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I have a laptop running vista that I'm going to set up to dual boot to Ubuntu for trial purposes, need to see how it works and what it can do so I can try and get away from Bill...
 
Whipsaw said:
I have a laptop running vista that I'm going to set up to dual boot to Ubuntu for trial purposes, need to see how it works and what it can do so I can try and get away from Bill...
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You can also run it from a DVD without actually altering your system.
 
Pizza order helped lead authorities to 'affluenza' teen, mother | Fox News

A cellphone used to order pizza helped lead authorities to the whereabouts of a teen fugitive known for using an "affluenza" defense and his mother in a Mexican resort town this week.
According to a police report issued by the Jalisco state prosecutors' office, Ethan and Tonya Couch used one of their phones to order Domino's Pizza for a room at a condominium in the beach city of Puerto Vallarta. A U.S. Marshals Service agent tipped authorities in Mexico about the location of the phone on Monday.
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they were probably running windows 10 on their devices.
 
burrocrat said:
they were probably running windows 10 on their devices.
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silly rabbit, everybody knows you can't run windows 10 on your phone, yet. that's a misnomer.

but here is how the system works: one of them fugitives before they fled had a computer at home running windows 10, which automatically makes it very convenient to connect through your wifi to all the great treasures of the digital world and also to connect with all other devices in range which could be your potential friends, or enemies they never quite say. and it logs those connections, and purchases and likes and peeks.

later if they want to find you and you screw up and order pizza and one of those nodes on your recorded network activates, they got you. probably knew about where you were anyways and saturated the local market with dominos pizza ads because junior likes two pepperoni and jalapeno mediums and mom can't resist the sweet and spicy wings on sale. so they run the special where they know you will see it, you can't hardly avoid the temptation after eating street tacos for two weeks your mouth waters until you can't stand it so you log in with your silent smart phone and order your usual. ding dong. pizza is here. got you.

you can run all you want, but they will be waiting for you at the edge of the cliff. maybe even send the hounds to chase you there. yay cloud computing! got you already, every single one of you. just a matter of when is the optimal time to draw the noose. dance baby dance. that is how they caught affluenza teen. only took a couple weeks, but they had them dead nuts from the minute they broke and made a run for it.

the really funny part of this story is that mexican authorities caught, detained, and now are going to deport u.s. illegal immigrants. ha! now that is rich!
 
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userque said:
Forgot to mention that you can also run it from a bootable USB drive.
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all commercial thumb drives available to a retail consumer are already back-door hacked and cracked at the point of manufacture, just need to know the key and have clearance algorithm. that is what we pay the nsa for and the reason for that big giant server farm in toole (too will yah).

welcome to the borg. on the bright side, they have seven of nine there and everybody wears tights.
 
burrocrat said:
all commercial thumb drives available to a retail consumer are already back-door hacked and cracked at the point of manufacture, just need to know the key and have clearance algorithm. that is what we pay the nsa for and the reason for that big giant server farm in toole (too will yah).

welcome to the borg. on the bright side, they have seven of nine there and everybody wears tights.
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Just to be clear for the readers, most retail USB drives are not encrypted--hence, no need for a backdoor. Even so, most security minded folks (obviously not the folks caught in Mexico recently) would layer their own, trusted encryption, on top of an encrypted drive.

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userque said:
Nevertheless, addressing what you post.

It's most likely an oxymoron as real security minded folks would never store encryption keys on M$ servers.
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True. I think the article was informing some people that they may have inadvertently done so without knowing it and this is what to do about it.

And yes, this has nothing to do with running Linux from a thumb drive. I do highly recommend it for those who haven't tried it yet. :banana:
 
I've got the CD ROM drive, will likely try the live disk first, then play with the thumb drive approach. Thanks! :D
 
burrocrat said:
all commercial thumb drives available to a retail consumer are already back-door hacked and cracked at the point of manufacture, just need to know the key and have clearance algorithm. that is what we pay the nsa for and the reason for that big giant server farm in toole (too will yah).

welcome to the borg. on the bright side, they have seven of nine there and everybody wears tights.
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Toole County in Montana has that big giant server farm with the seven of nine busting it out??? News to me. This might be the farm.
 
Whipsaw said:
I've got the CD ROM drive, will likely try the live disk first, then play with the thumb drive approach. Thanks! :D
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Great. You'll have to set your puter to boot from USB of course. The advantage with USB is that you can easily save your linux session; save files; save settings; etc. But USB method might be more tricky to do than live CD depending upon the age of your puter and/or its current security settings.

Let us know how you get along. :)
 
userque said:
Great. You'll have to set your puter to boot from USB of course. The advantage with USB is that you can easily save your linux session; save files; save settings; etc. But USB method might be more tricky to do than live CD depending upon the age of your puter and/or its current security settings.

Let us know how you get along. :)
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I should clarify.

On the puter that I run the live CD on, the harddrive is encrypted. So I can't access the harddrive from linux (without a lot of drama). Even so, I could save files to a USB drive; but not the linux session. afaik. So, the next time I boot from the CD (DVD actually), I have to reconfigure linux again from its default settings, (wifi, etc.) no biggie for what I use it for.

You may be able to easily access your harddrive while on linux if it's not encrypted, I don't know. I purposely know nothing about w10 :)
 
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