sure as hell wasnt on my bingo card.

Someones afraid of their dealer getting caught…

While these kinds of “bricking” clauses haven’t been tested in court, lawyers who spoke to Ars felt they would probably hold up to judicial review.

This is laughable at best, would 100% never go to court. The cost of losing would destroy so many models… and defending in it in the light of real consequences is going to make them popular… Ask the RIAA how suing customers made them look.

The threat of doing it is way more powerful.

I understand the desire to believe that we are super fool proof in our ability to detect everything that can be a threat… then I remember the Great Seal Bug. Then there was the embassy in 1964. The problem is that we will find most of them and convince ourselves that we found all of them.

I would actually feel more comfortable if it was newer, that would be less time to figure it out. But opsec doesnt appear to be a skill these guys possess.

It is 100% filled with microphones that will never be found.

slackware, from floppy circa 1996

This reminds me of the quote:

“If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.”

• Marjane Satrapi