Posts by Grey342

UK lawmakers look to enforce blocking tools for legal but harmful content

It has become dangerous to chat online

I usually have solutions to most issues but in this case having experienced a forum on a very popular site in which I suspect only a fraction of people were genuine as opposed to a wide range of bad players quite able to cause real-world trouble by using technical tricks to isolate your actual address to within 100 metres or so, the challenge is not to isolate bad people because there are too many of them but instead, and I'm thinking let's start with something for children, introduce a digital identity scheme so that those of a certain age can only talk to someone of equal age which I think is the best of a bad situation. Adults will have to accept that there are a wide variety of damaged souls out there and my personal solution for that is to not engage with trouble and sleep better but young people bored with not being able to grow-up quick enough, find fun stuff to do and often get into places not intended for them, we should try and fix that by keeping them in isolated groups based on equal age as a starting point which might also involve starting to use biometrics to verify someone is who they say they are.

Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest

Deeply concerned about TPM on Windows 11.

By now everyone has probably discovered you destroy any shared drive data with curruptions when win 11 saved material is accessed by non tpm enabled Windows 10 or whatever OS. Microsoft should haved warned people that was an obvious downside of TPM however my bigger concern is that a hacker remoting-in can disable the TPM as I did: it's just a regular setting which may have the effect of disabling or even doing a reset of the hardware sync that allows everything in Windows 11 (and possibly win 10 on a shared platform) to function. I have deleted win 11 after I lost data but having activated tpm at the hardware level and then disabled it for a rebuild, it occurs to me that there might be an issue with a hacker scrambled tpm not only causing problems for your OS accessing data but what happens when you try and restore a backup that may incorporate an alternative TPM software value if your hardware gets its TPM chip reset by clicking on the Windows option to disable it. I have lost hours with data issues but losing the option to restore from backups is like going back to the stone age in terms of lost time rebuilding systems from scratch. I have not tested this concept but as tpm seems to rely on hardware and software being in sync to work well, if you lose that sync when a hacker clicks on the settings for it, you want to know if your backups will still fix any and all issues. If someone has a spare test rig please check it out and let us know. Many thanks.