Linus Gabriel Sebastian & Linus Media Group / Linus Tech Tips - Narcissistic corporate shill YouTuber driving his media empire into the ground. KILL COUNT: 2

[Smar Mijou]

I hate pajeets so much it's unreal. They stumbled upon the golden goose and squandered it by running a generic crypto scam that netted less money than they'd get from a demented grandma. They actually got some moron at LMG to run malware and all they do is steal sessions? Don't cryptolocker the petabyte server? Don't even attempt to harvest employee docs or company secrets? (I bet you the shares are open to guests with read/write, no way these morons could figure out Kerberos)

Not to go all "stormfront" but that's what you get when you have a culture rooted in beliefs and superstitions that are almost caveman level in their stupidity. Couple that with massive overpopulation and you end up with modern-day India. Entire generations of people that are so mind-blowingly dumb and misogynistic that they're almost subhuman. They literally do not give a single fuck about anyone but themselves and will scam their own grandparents if it gets them another rupee. Most of the scammer/call center industry are low-IQ cogs who can do little more than read a script and learn some broken Engrish. And if you're a woman in that shithole? Good luck not being gang-raped or married off for a dowry by the time you're 14. You know the entire culture is fucked when a cow has more rights and better treatment than the average female.

I don't understand why Windows hasn't implemented something selinux to protect shit like appdata folders from being accessed by random-ass applications. Why in the dear fucking god are browser profiles able to be read by just anything in the year of our lord (social engineering), 2023? We're fucking around with TPM and UEFI security and all this other bullshit when all it takes is a user-level piece of malware to pwn just about your entire life.

Agree, but it's not just Microsoft and Windows. Anyone is subject to a phishing, spoofing, or confidence scam and as others have said the adage is true, a chain is only as string as it's weakest link. As far as .pdf readers allowed to execute and run .exe files and other similar retardation, I would put the blame on the software manufacturers for those problems.

This might be my own paranoia talking but I wouldn't trust it to connect to anything that has an active internet connection, I don't trust a router firmware update or config error to not broadcast that to the internet. A router with no connection to WAN would have a much harder time accidentally connecting to the internet

IOT and wifi enabled everything is "Hard R" retarded in the first place. As others have said, on top of the massive security lapses and shoddy code prevalent in most IOT related devices, you have to ask yourself, is any of it really necessary? Especially in a security system, hard wired cameras to a central data point is more secure than anything wireless, regardless of how it is set up or encrypted. Is a wifi enabled toaster, light bulb, refrigerator, or bread maker really that much easier than a "dumb" device? Would you sacrifice security for convenience?

Haven't watched the video, but this was obviously coming to anyone with a brain. Imagine thinking a modular laptop is anything more than a pipedream.

Up until everyone started following the Apple design philosophy, for the most part, they were.

Considering laptops have been a thing for 30+ years you would think "upgradable" laptops would have caught on by now.

See my comment above. It's been about a decade or so since the locked down and "disposable" design philosophy took over. Apple has always been "special" but PC based laptops used to be modular and upgradeable for the most part, really only limited to the manufacturer and motherboard design limits. My 10+ year old laptop is on-par for the most part with modern-day laptops. RAM, GPU, CPU, and hard drive could be and have been upgraded. The pace of technology innovation has slowed down in the consumer market for sure, but the manufacturers' gaslighting and FORCED obsolescence has increased considerably over the same amount of time.

 

[northstar747]

i didnt watch the video but luis roseman doesnt like framework go figure.

 

[Markass the Worst]

i didnt watch the video but luis roseman doesnt like framework go figure.

No, he doesn't dislike Framework. He says that they should do better by hiring someone who will fix all the laptops with the design flaw. They're already better than Apple by virtue of acknowledging the issue and posting a solution on their forums for people who want to fix it themselves. He even talks about wanting to buy a new Framework for himself because he wants an AMD processor to use DaVinci Resolve on Linux.

 

[seri0us]

He even talks about wanting to buy a new Framework for himself because he wants an AMD processor to use DaVinci Resolve on Linux.

And now that he's not in New York anymore I bet it's way less likely that it'll be stolen like last time...

 

[Ahriman]

On a lighter side of things,

 

[Nabeshin]

I don't understand why Windows hasn't implemented something selinux to protect shit like appdata folders from being accessed by random-ass applications.

Actually "there is" one Windows Sandbox environment but Linus and their team is too dumb to implement it

 

[Jeff Q. Anime]

Actually "there is" one Windows Sandbox environment but Linus and their team is too dumb to implement it

I mean, this feature won't really help you if you accidentally ran sponsorshipoffer.pdf.exe. You can't constantly run a browser in a sandbox like this. It needs too much access to everything. Would it prevent RCE vulnerabilities present in pdf readers if you opened all pdfs in a pdf reader in a sandbox...? Sure, I guess.

 

[Slav Power]

I mean, this feature won't really help you if you accidentally ran sponsorshipoffer.pdf.exe. You can't constantly run a browser in a sandbox like this. It needs too much access to everything. Would it prevent RCE vulnerabilities present in pdf readers if you opened all pdfs in a pdf reader in a sandbox...? Sure, I guess.

I'd say open up all e-mails in a sandbox environment where the only piece of software you're using is the e-mail client? Then if you end up running something malicious at worst it'll access whatever was in the e-mail client.

 

[Nabeshin]

I'd say open up all e-mails in a sandbox environment where the only piece of software you're using is the e-mail client? Then if you end up running something malicious at worst it'll access whatever was in the e-mail client.

If Linus wasn't a nigger and soy, what I would do was to force a police where all PC's would run Linux, e-mail would be accessed only by clients like thunderbird and if windows was required, the machine wouldn't be connected to internet but a intranet, while the laptop would be connected to both, so they could download a clip or video from the laptop and use on the PC by network share

 

[Toolbox]

crypto garbage is so cringe, those mfs should get a real job asap,

Few jobs have such value as scamming Linus's audience of thousands of dollars.

 

[Markass the Worst]

I'd say open up all e-mails in a sandbox environment where the only piece of software you're using is the e-mail client? Then if you end up running something malicious at worst it'll access whatever was in the e-mail client.

QubesOS is based around sandboxing everything in its own VM like this.
Linus would never use it though, it would be too iNcOnVeNiEnT for him.

 

[Cubanodun]

I do agree that Motion blur is absolute cancer and game developers should stop implementing it. RTX is Nvidia marketing at worst, and you dont need a 1000 dollars phone that will not give you anything that is not E-Peen credits

 

[s0m3dood]

I mean, this feature won't really help you if you accidentally ran sponsorshipoffer.pdf.exe. You can't constantly run a browser in a sandbox like this. It needs too much access to everything. Would it prevent RCE vulnerabilities present in pdf readers if you opened all pdfs in a pdf reader in a sandbox...? Sure, I guess.

Of course you can. That's what Sandboxie is for. I am using it since it was released for Windows XP. (If I have to use Windows for some unholy reason.)
But if you give the Trojan Internet Access and it runs in the same Sandbox as your Browser it can still steal your session cookies and upload them. It can't encrypt your files but it wouldn't protect Linus.
Unless he read the manual and knew what he was doing by blocking Memory Access. And we all know that's not going to happen.

 

[mandatorylurk]

-the first 30 minutes is talking to DPReview.com as it is being shut down by Amazon in their round of layoffs. Never knew about them, no comment
-the hack talk starts at 34:30, the biggest thing that is revealed is Luke was genuinely pumped for this type of all night grind, but it seems he still lives with a roommate (on top of having his girlfriend I mean "partner" also living with him). Demand a fucking raise you're reaching a point where it feels like you are sacrificing your financial future for Linus and his brood.
-Linus was literally cucked to the snack tray role, as Yvonne, Dan and Luke were working with Youtube to change passwords and authorized accounts so he went and made the kids lunches that morning
-A lot of people in the company, the tech people, were on the ball and helping out how they could. This gave a feeling of twitter right when Musk bought it, all of Luke's people were doing their shit to save the company, the other people were....doing something.
-there is talk about a need to monetize this and meme it during the day it happened, such is the life of a media whore, and I don't think Linus understands this doesn't make him look good or sympathetic.
-This hack helped boost Floatplane subscriptions to meet their quota for the year.
-Over 400 merch messages were received, but the system crashed and they couldn't retrieve most of them until the end when they just weren't going to read any. Could be genuine, it did have a feeling of just shrugging when people were trying to help out with buying things and you can't even answer a question via the format you repeatedly say you want instead of super chats
-Dan seems to be doing way more than his job entails, he's not only the logistics head guy and repair guy/system administrator until they hire a new one, he also does the WAN show stuff, more than it seems their new hire on probation. He even had to come in and do a live stream for Sarah as she designed the Gone Phishing stream on air. He definitely needs to demand a raise.
-Linus is entering these magnetic cable holder things for behind your TV stands and computer desks into production, he is using Chyna plastic manufacturing again instead of the people who made his screwdriver handles in Canada because of money and "it doesn't have to be designed to such tolerances." Canada first doesn't matter for the Calgary Flame Faggot.

 

[Jeff Q. Anime]

Of course you can. That's what Sandboxie is for.

My nigga, we are talking about the sandboxing feature currently built into Windows. Not a random piece of third party software.

 

[s0m3dood]

My nigga, we are talking about the sandboxing feature currently built into Windows. Not a random piece of third party software.

It's basically the same thing. Sandboxie has more features and was made first. Now MS came to their senses and built a knockoff into Windows itself. Current version is called Sandboxie+.

 

[nish haha]

how lousy were his people

 

[Jeff Q. Anime]

It's basically the same thing. Sandboxie has more features and was made first. Now MS came to their senses and built a knockoff into Windows itself. Current version is called Sandboxie+.

That's very cool, but completely irrelevant to a discussion about Microsoft's responsibility to have better features built into Windows with complete integration into the Windows ecosystem. Like, you know, defining sandboxes and sandbox behavior by GPO.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

That's very cool, but completely irrelevant to a discussion about Microsoft's responsibility to have better features built into Windows with complete integration into the Windows ecosystem. Like, you know, defining sandboxes and sandbox behavior by GPO.

While Microsoft doesn't really have a solution for enterprise managed sandboxing, there is a feature in Windows 10/11 Enterprise called AppLocker which can help. You can define policies that limit the ability to execute files based on conditions such as the path, digital signature and file hash. That way you can make it impossible for a user to run sponsor.pdf.exe in their user profile, while still allowing digitally signed stuff from trusted publishers like Chrome.exe or Teams.exe.

It's not perfect but nothing is and I don't see Microsoft pushing out some kind of enterprise isolated AppData feature within our lifetimes.

 

[SilenceIsViolence]

@mandatorylurk cant quote reply you, but I have a personal theory that Luke’s roommate is a girlfriends bf situation. If you start thinking of it as a cuck thing it makes way more sense why a mid six figure male in his 30s is living with a “longtime roommate”. I have no proof or evidence, but it’s the only way I can rationalize it as it definitely isn’t lack of finances.