This tie-in needs to happen on a serious level.

I've been saying this for a while, but now I'm fully certain of it.

The Xbox One is the last Xbox, in the same way that Windows 10 is the last version of Windows.

...and don't take this as a bad thing, this is the best thing to happen to the Xbox brand since it started and PlayStation needs to figure out how to follow suit or get left behind.

Microsoft is just going to keep iterating the console periodically adding hardware upgrades while retaining compatibility with the first model like how iOS and Android work.

It also looks like Microsoft is gearing up for making the Xbox One just a Windows 10 device in it's entirely, making all Xbox games into Windows 10 games.

Someone in Nintendo was like "Hey, I have a great idea for fixing the mess that is our accounts system right now!"

A brand new! From scratch! Account system!

puffs cigarette
"ni**as just probably want me dead... on some other stuff, I don't know"

Almost nobody but us techies in this encryption debate understands device encryption, so I'll try to explain [Warning long read].

Encryption doesn't work like a door lock. It works more like a coded message.

The way operating systems often encrypt your stuff is it uses your password as the encryption key via an advanced algorithm.

So if your password is "horse1" everything on your computer's drive will be encrypted using those 6 characters, so even if your OS is damaged but the hard drive is saved, nothing can be read without knowing that "horse1" is the encryption key.

There's no such thing as a backdoor to a coded message.

A backdoor means it wasn't coded to begin with.

You can't pass me a paper with a secret phrase and somehow have me know what it is without the key or map to it.

So a backdoor means that the algorithm made was made badly on purpose.
Badly enough that you don't need to know the code to read it.

There's no way to simply let the feds in and keep someone skilled enough out.
And there's also no way to make a "backdoor" that the feds could simply only use on terrorists.
Remember it doesn't work like a door lock. It either only works for your password or not at all.

So let's say the government somehow gets their way and has "backdoors" on all popular OSes.

And before I continue, let's take into account the increase in smartphones, smart TV's, smart cars, smart homes, smart glasses, smart clothing, solar powered roofs, home batteries, smart light bulbs, smart watches, video game consoles, tablets, laptops, desktops, etc...

Basically what I'm getting at is the only conclusion favoring the government is a surveillance state.

Oh and they still won't get the terrorists as Linux and Android are open source and support strong encryption and they'll just make their own versions of those for doing their jobs if need be.Almost nobody but us techies in this encryption debate understands device encryption, so I'll try to explain [Warning long read].

Encryption doesn't work like a door lock. It works more like a coded message.

The way operating systems often encrypt your stuff is it uses your password as the encryption key via an advanced algorithm.

So if your password is "horse1" everything on your computer's drive will be encrypted using those 6 characters, so even if your OS is damaged but the hard drive is saved, nothing can be read without knowing that "horse1" is the encryption key.

There's no such thing as a backdoor to a coded message.

A backdoor means it wasn't coded to begin with.

You can't pass me a paper with a secret phrase and somehow have me know what it is without the key or map to it.

So a backdoor means that the algorithm made was made badly on purpose.
Badly enough that you don't need to know the code to read it.

There's no way to simply let the feds in and keep someone skilled enough out.
And there's also no way to make a "backdoor" that the feds could simply only use on terrorists.
Remember it doesn't work like a door lock. It either only works for your password or not at all.

So let's say the government somehow gets their way and has "backdoors" on all popular OSes.

And before I continue, let's take into account the increase in smartphones, smart TV's, smart cars, smart homes, smart glasses, smart clothing, solar powered roofs, home batteries, smart light bulbs, smart watches, video game consoles, tablets, laptops, desktops, etc...

Basically what I'm getting at is the only conclusion favoring the government is a surveillance state.

Oh and they still won't get the terrorists as Linux and Android are open source and support strong encryption and they'll just make their own versions of those for doing their jobs if need be.

I'd agree with this guy if he were talking Windows 8, but regarding Windows 10 he's stretching more than Dhalsim.

He made it seem like they made it super difficult to sideload apps.

If you want to sideload Universal Windows Apps on Windows 10 just go to Settings > Update & Security > For Developers and check "Sideload Apps" (it's just like Android and Mac OS X).

...and how do you get at Microsoft and Google for doing this, but make exclusive games for iOS which doesn't support sideloading at all?

Also Mac OS X does the same thing too (you have to go into settings to allow sideloading) and Steam hasn't had any problems on there.

LMAO!

I've got to go buy this book at some point.