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Ian Phillips
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Buy a tin-foil hat. That should solve all your perceived problems.
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I guess you could not play Elite if you're that paranoid about it?
I mean, where are the chips for your PC / XBOX / PS4 / Router or cable modem etc made? A fair number may well be made in China, including the network-related ones.
Or the ones in your network-connected smart TV? Smartphone?
For example.... https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/01/intel_amt_me_vulnerability/
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Excuse me, but how do you think one of the biggest gaming companies in the world having a 9% stake in FD will somehow impact network security in ED just because they are located in China?
I've got one. It was made in China [where is it]
im aware of this and after playing a game of use of the pc, I remove the network cable from the network
Did you know that mr. Edvard Snowden himself is big fun of ED,no?
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198044693308
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198044693308
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It's a fair question.
If the stake was 50% to 90% I'd be worried but for other reasons as well.
You are just as vulnerable now from your fellow Cmdrs as ED uses a peer to peer network if you want to be paranoid.
Start Task Manager, go to the Performance tab and click on the Resource Monitor icon.
Then click on the Network tab.
Then with ED running click on its process.
You can now see the other Cmdr's PC's IP addresses that you are playing with.
If the stake was 50% to 90% I'd be worried but for other reasons as well.
You are just as vulnerable now from your fellow Cmdrs as ED uses a peer to peer network if you want to be paranoid.
Start Task Manager, go to the Performance tab and click on the Resource Monitor icon.
Then click on the Network tab.
Then with ED running click on its process.
You can now see the other Cmdr's PC's IP addresses that you are playing with.
Well no packets that leave your router are safe as you fundamentally lost control of the data, unless you use end to end encryption. As for your local network, do not get a smart meter and when forced (legislation already on books in UK) do not plug it into your LAN. When they insist you plug it into your LAN put it on its won VLAN, oh and turn port isolation on.
Chinese company 9% investment in a games comapny pales into insignificants when compared to the effort the US and UK government go to to track their citizens (Smart meda legislation, injecting compromised encryption into standards etc.). Given the UK and US government have more direct control over my life than the Chinese government, I am not too concerned whith the chinese learning about me, my risk level has not changed and the enemy is still my government and the US.
If you going to be a paranoid conspiracy theorist, at least measure the risk and work out who you really care abouy having information about you. I think you'll find the chinese are the least of your problems, focus on the big variables like US and UK governments first. and any other powers that can directly remove your freedom and freedoms before worrying about a bit player i your life.
Simon
Chinese company 9% investment in a games comapny pales into insignificants when compared to the effort the US and UK government go to to track their citizens (Smart meda legislation, injecting compromised encryption into standards etc.). Given the UK and US government have more direct control over my life than the Chinese government, I am not too concerned whith the chinese learning about me, my risk level has not changed and the enemy is still my government and the US.
If you going to be a paranoid conspiracy theorist, at least measure the risk and work out who you really care abouy having information about you. I think you'll find the chinese are the least of your problems, focus on the big variables like US and UK governments first. and any other powers that can directly remove your freedom and freedoms before worrying about a bit player i your life.
Simon
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Avago Earo
Banned
I think I've got the same one. It's a bit uncomfortable though, with all these fine little wires going through it like little veins. The manual doesn't explain why I have to enable wi-fi for it either. I'm sure there's a good reason, so I enabled that (and bluetooth) anyway.
Communicating in Chinese is a sign of "intelligy"...
Quick quiz - do you have google email or any social media accounts you use, OP? A smartphone? Connected fridge?
I think in the upcoming years we will be more concerned with Internet of Things security than some "intelligy hackers hacking ED account". But it will be because of the people putting skimmers on ATMs (i.e. smart enough), and not "foreign and domestic spies".
Other than that, a healthy dose of paranoia is healthy, but the unplugging the cable - isn't, IMHO.
I think in the upcoming years we will be more concerned with Internet of Things security than some "intelligy hackers hacking ED account". But it will be because of the people putting skimmers on ATMs (i.e. smart enough), and not "foreign and domestic spies".
Other than that, a healthy dose of paranoia is healthy, but the unplugging the cable - isn't, IMHO.
Brett C
Frontier
Having a Chinese company investing stock to Frontier Developments does not change how our games networking code functions. It remains as is.
https://www.frontier.co.uk/privacy-policy
https://www.frontier.co.uk/privacy-policy
You're thinking that because the Chinese are 'involved' that for some reason our chances of being hacked have increased? This has no logic to it. The recent virus that brought down the NHS systems in the UK was due to a leaked American NSA hacking tool. Yet do you worry about using American companies / software to play Elite in the first place?
Don't buy into the media bias that everything to do with China is 'evil' and that they're an 'enemy'.
That so much. I'd be much more worried if all our data was handled on the systems of some faceless US company like Google or Amazon well damn. [where is it]
Well said +1
Of course, you could be a planted Chinese Intelligence agent, and just saying that, to lull us all into false sense of
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Yeah, OP. And since they're going to hack into my network now they can fix this cheap microwave I bought. For half the year it shows the wrong time!!
Has anyone got a spare tin foil hat? David Ike has mine.
Has anyone got a spare tin foil hat? David Ike has mine.
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