MarchinBunny said:
When did I claim it isn't restrictive at all? What I was claiming was it's not as restrictive as you make it seem to be.
I am a more "technically-minded person" ... and I don't find it locked-down at all or overly restrictive. It does exactly what I need it to do. It's great for gaming. It works well. It's fast. I have never come across a point where I could not do what I wanted. Exactly what more else do I need?
Why would you glue them in?
See, I don't quite worry about security all that much. I am just an individual person. I am not part of Area 51 (Funny though since I name all my computers Area 51, I know it's unoriginal XD).
I think many people have this weird anxiety about security when it comes to computers to the point that it's actualyl not really all that logical. It's like putting a high-end security door on your house that you would expect to see in a bank. It's entirely unnecessary. Keeping in mind, I myself am prerty secure about things now. I have a different random password for every site.
It's hard to get a job in computers actually since it's such a common career. Not to mention, skills in linux is actually even less needed besides obviously companies who run servers and such. But most companies don't use linux for their employee based computers. Working with Windows is just more common. Also, most of these jobs require lots of on job expeirence and a degree of some type. At least that is how it is in the US.
1. ANTI-Forensics
gluing in your ram sticks "mostly" protects against the cold boot method
2. I've got code signing certificates and access to a shit ton of servers, lets say if any of those certificates fall in the wrong hands, obviously that's going to be deadly, because people will sign malware with my certificates avoiding detection.
3. Encryption by itself is useless, like you said it's like a security door on a house, but.. if you know what you're doing It becomes a high security money transfer van
seriously gluing in your ram is one of those things that prevents a lot of the attacks, but once you do it properly, It's practically uncrackable and there are tons of government documents supporting this.
Lets say I know people who wire up a sensor to there door to shut the power off to the computer if that door is open without touching another switch first.
crazy stuff. I did this once with a light sensor so everytime you turned used your computer and turned the light on in the room it would shut down, if you don't want the switch to activate you would use a key to disable it
Technically you can argue I'm not doing it "good enough" I'm sure people at government agencies wire a switch to thermite or use self destructing SSDs
4. Most companies use windows (whatever) enterprise, and I do have skills with windows server, most recent version I've used is 2012,
a lot of my qualification deals with windows server and not linux interestingly enough, and networking.
5. I'm technically a qualified network administrator
6. VPN is a must for me, most Australians should be using them IMO, we have stupid metadata collection laws in AUS, who knows when that power will be abused there are often comedians joking about this, such as segments of people looking for jobs, and the employer is looking at his search history because metadata itself tells a lot about the site there visiting.
For example. the information they would have as follows
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<meta name="description" content="The thing that pisses me off the most about windows 10 is the fact it updates at random literally killing your internet connection.