Comments by "Martin Maat" (@MartinMaat) on "Rob Braxman Tech" channel.

  1. This is quite an eye opener. I just browsed the list of trusted root certificates on my Windows machine which includes some that obviously did not come with Windows and yet they are there. Apparently any installer can drop whatever certificate in there without me being asked whether I trust this party. This makes the PKI infrastructure quite pointless. I would expect my OS to ask me if I'm OK with a particular certificate when an installer tries to add a root certificate.
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  2. I would think today there is less need to actively ask people. They can just buy the data from Facebook and Google. They know who you are. They do NOT know however whether you will actually vote or not.
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  3. You must have been a bad, bad boy. Or did Rob come to your house to check your shock absorbers and were they all found in working order?
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  4. Of course they do, because it is the buzz word of the times. I would not be surprised if they used blockchain and cloud computing too.
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  5. @gschgvt2956  Most times you can still see them under "newest". 'Top" basically means harmless to stakeholders.
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  6. Wishful thinking. The people who are aware of privacy issues AND act on it in everyday life are way below 1% of the electorate.
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  7. I am still seeing your message. How is that for your ego?
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  8.  @joemann7971  He is not implying otherwise (I think), he points out the explanation is more to be sought in people that didn't vote this time than in people that kept their vote secret.
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  9. I am wondering what psy op gave you the idea that big tech is "progressive". Big tech is capitalism 2.0, it is as right wing as it gets, working for the happy few only.
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  10. ​ @pizzaearthpancakesandother2549  And when they're done with them, they're eating the chimps!
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  11. The main argument against mass suveillance is not made. You may be totally on board with your current government and their pretext of looking after the common interest by hunting down terrorists and pedophiles. The point is, those goals are not stable and nor are the people in charge. Once this capability is in place it can be used by any government to follow at their will. People don't like us? Let's fix that, find those bastards. See who watches the wrong videos, visits the wrong websites, posts unfavorable messages about us, has people in their contact list we don't like, et cetera.
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  12. Side note: preventing children from watching pr0n will create lifetime obsessed perverts. Let them have it, the novelty will wear off real quick and they will have easier lives than their sex crazed parents.
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  13. So it won't store video of you wacking your meat. It will just store "watching pron, wanking". How efficient.
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  14.  @robbraxmantech  It is not so much "dark voters" that caused the outcome as it were "dark non-voters". Both parties lost big, trump got millions of votes less than he did in the previous cicle. Dems just lost even bigger. Lots of people turned away from the whole circus because they lost faith in it. These likely did not participate in any polls either and pollsters just assumed these voters still existed and would turn up again. So I think apathy and disappointment (particularly with foreign policy) seem to have been a more significant factor than privacy savvyness.
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  15.  @notsosuavemate  Oh, don't ruin it!
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