Jinxed Violynne’s Comments

• Feb 7th, 2019 @ 7:22am

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  on Apple Helps AT&T Mislead Consumers With Fake 5G

  It's unlikely the majority consumer base gives two cares of "4G" vs. "5G".

  To them, so long as it works, they're fine with it.

  This article is no different than a company releasing a "new and improved" product, which is contradictory as it cannot be both new and improved.

• Feb 5th, 2019 @ 3:59am

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  on Article 13 Is Back On: Germany Caves To France As EU Pushes Forward On Ruining The Internet

  As I eat my pie, I cannot recall why all the shenanigans in the EU sound so familiar.

• Feb 5th, 2019 @ 3:53am

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  on DNA-Matching Company Decides To Open Its Doors To The FBI Without Bothering To Inform Its Users

  I'm always discouraged by people who have the attitude "I have nothing to hide" when they feel it's okay to destroy the rights of everyone else for the sake of a fake, selfish desire to "do right" by "fighting" {today's boogeyman is: cheese}.

  This is no longer a situation of "just don't use the service". This attitude is like cancer - it spreads without regard to life.

• Feb 1st, 2019 @ 4:56am

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  on New Japanese Law Lets Government Hack IOT Devices, Warn Owners They're Vulnerable

  "Once the Japanese government has confirmed the vulnerability, it intends to send notices to impacted users in a bid to try and scare them into actually securing the devices."

  Hopefully using a secured connection, since most IoT communications are not secured, hence they're vulnerability with a password change.

• Feb 1st, 2019 @ 4:52am

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  on A Teenager Tried To Warn Apple About It's Facetime Security Flaw, But Appears To Have Been Ignored

  I'm just waiting for the news Apples sues the teenager using the CFAA.

• Jan 31st, 2019 @ 2:52am

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  on Disney Goes All Disney On The Kingdom Hearts 3 Title Screen Over Streaming

  None of this will stop people from supporting Disney as they quickly throw another $60+ into their coffers which pays the lawyers to write this crap.

  Also, Bethesda beat Disney. There's a similar message when streaming Fallout 4 with a bit of a plot twist: the game removes the music completely.

• Jan 30th, 2019 @ 4:04am

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  on Developer DMCAs Steam For Hosting Its Own Game To Wrest Control Back From Rogue Publisher
  I don't believe this was a creative way to use the DMCA, but another example of abuse.
  
  The publisher didn't pay out the monies owed the studio, but there was also no court decision to state there was a violation of contract.
  
  Instead, the developer when full nuclear and abused a law meant to take down content being used without permission.
  
  Once the DMCA was filed, all owners of the game were instantly playing a pirated version.
  
  I will agree this situation sets up a perfect scenario to show how horrible the DMCA is written, for allowing abuse (even if it's for "good") which can still punish the innocent (because now the game is illegal).
  
  I can't praise the developers here. I can only shake my head another abusive path was taken.
  
  If the developers did go to court and sue the publisher, then the control would have been restored without the DMCA, and Steam's only involvement would have been to update the publisher information.