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Comment Who would guess randomly? (Score 2) 27

The unlocking, or decryption, process involves adding a series of chemicals in a precise order over time [...] The researchers conducted an ethical hacking exercise on the test lock and found that random guessing yielded a 0.2% success rate

It's really not decryption, is it? Unlocking remains a pretty good description. But more importantly, who would guess randomly? You should be able to model the interactions by now and determine which of them are likely to work. Your attackers are likely to be people with the ability to sequence your creation anyway.

Comment Re:We've heard this before (Score 1) 120

that's quite true but sadly not for public administrative work which tends to rely heavily on legacy sw, specific document templates and workflows, etc.

I'm not in France, but I work for and have also previously worked for government. The specific document templates are all in PDF now. If a word document isn't exactly the right format it doesn't matter. We do use forms like that, but it's completely inconsequential if the formatting is a bit wrong as long as the data is on it. Where the formatting matters, it's always a PDF. More and more of our work is done via web, many of the PDFs are generated from software on the web. There is absolutely zero reason why most of us could not do our jobs completely on Linux with virtually no retraining because all the bits we interact with work almost the same by default, and can be configured to work exactly the same in practice.

i would guess the far stronger success factor today would be motivation: munich was ahead of its time and purely based on the ideal of achieving a clean open administration standard which is a good thing per-se, with the concern just being that ms is a private corporation, not as much that it is a private corporation controlled by a rogue or sometimes directly hostile state.

Yeah, but that's stupid right? Because the USA has been Team America World Police ever since WWII. We delayed entry into that conflict even though we knew the holocaust was occurring with the excuse that it was politically untenable, with Americans still being fatigued over WWI. But "conveniently" it also meant our "allies" were getting bombed while we grew our manufacturing capacity. And that allowed the conflict to grow as well, because we weren't the only ones building factories, the Axis wasn't thumb-sitting. But that's just the tip of the dick, because we were also war profiteering, for example selling fuel and metals to the Nazis. We actually didn't just not help fight in a timely fashion, we grew the conflict and got rich from it! And besides the parties who profited from it, nobody knows this better than Germany! QED, all of Europe but especially Germany should have known better than to adopt Microsoft in the first place. No one else is in a better position to know exactly what we are — solely self-interested.

Comment Re:Those aren't the same thing (Score 3, Insightful) 33

Gambling, on the other hand, involves wagering money, with the returns (assuming you win) also being in the form of money.

You buy the loot box, or buy points to get the loot box. The loot box contents are either transferable or not. If they are, then you can sell them (whether the platform "allows" this behavior or not) and they therefore have a cash value. Therefore the returns (potential or realized) are in the form of money. If you don't ignore these important facts, then you'll realize that loot boxes can be and often are gambling.

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