IT'S HAPPNING

>>57954437
RMS warned us...

>>57954437
Good. Idiots shouldn't be allowed to present a risk to those around them. They have been given many opportunities to return the devices, including financial incentives. I hope they finally do the right thing.

>>57954581

>Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Its sets a dangerous precedent for the industry

>>57954623
This

>>57954623
>Its sets a dangerous precedent for the industry
You're absolutely right, its[sic] does. They shouldn't have waited so long, they're probably being held liable for any damages.

>preventing the phones from charging or working as mobile devices
But it can still be used as a explosive device?

>>57954737
mein neger

>>57954437
people were repeatedly told to RMA the devices multiple times. If i had purchased that grenade I would've been the first in line to exchange it for a new phone, luckily i have half a brain and didn't bother with chingsung in the first place

>>57954941
>half a brain

unfortunately that's all i have tho

>>57954941
What the are actual chances of it exploding?

Probably less than one in 100.000?
With millions sold that's still an issue, but I would risk it as long as it's less than 1% chance of exploding.

>>57954982
the fact you even remotely consider that being ok is a serious problem and shows how careless consumers really are... If there were a product that could be talked about, and the words 'possibly exploding' are mentioned in the same breath as the name of the product, I'm turning 360 degrees and walking away.

>>57955057
So I'm guessing you don't own a car then?

>>57955180
You're a fucking retard.

>>57955229
That is a shit reaction when you get btfo'd. You are just letting him win if you just call him shit, make a proper argument

>>57955229

No, anon has a point. Nice ad hominem

>tfw everyone will be forced to use thinkpads because apple toddlers will have their shit bricked
i am ok with this

>>57955289

thinkpads use Intel processors, thus are more likely to be bricked - see Intel Management Engine

>>57955316
there are some that have cpus pre-dating intel ME

>>57955316

correcting myself: just as likely to be bricked

>>57954623
It does, but the problem with the Note is that it puts you at risk just as much as everyone around you. What if it catches fire on a plane?

>>57955327

i have this phobia of second had laptops, all the hot glue in the keyboard

>>57955346
Buy from a woman then

>>57955334

>What if it catches fire on a plane?

What if the galley catches fire? or the engine?

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>Download a movie torrent
>Get PC bricked


This is the future we chose.

>>57955346
not a prob if you lick it off

>>57954437

How is this news?

Literally any devices can be bricked if a manufacturer decides to push out software that can brick it.

>>57955360
This. I always try to buy these thing from womans, they take much more care of their shit than the average joe

>>57954623
>dangerous precedent
>Give it back before it hurts you, you can have another phone or your money money back, please give it back before you get hurt by it, we will have no choice but to destroy it from here before you or someone else gets hurt, please return it so we can give your money back...

Sounds like the only thing to do really, they cant afford letting it go and later having even more trouble because some idiot got hurt by it.
Besides, we have recalls for everything, turning something useless to ensure recall works only opens a precedent for doing it again in similar cases, it's a pretty different thing to do it because "hey, fuck you, buy a new one, your will shut down in 5, 4, 3..."

>>57955402

when was the last time this happened?

>>57955267
idk who that was, but I don't see any recent make/model of car spontaneously combusting, else I wouldn't own that car either. Your reply doesnt make sense lol

>>57954437
Will unopened Note 7s be collectable/valuable in the future? This probably belongs in /sqt/ but whatever.

>>57955180
see -> >>57955580

> 2017
> data plan becomes process plan
> pay for your cpu cycles

>>57955580
But people spontaneously crash into you when you are driving a car much more often than mobile phones explodes

>>57955440
Okay, but how do you find a woman selling a 2011 or older ThinkPad? That just doesn't happen.

>>57955283
not ad hominem cause that guy was straight up insulting him, not poking fun at his character/personality. Nice meme though faggot

>>57955334
>What if it catches fire on a plane?

Deboard them, extinguish any remaining flames, and continue on to the destination.

>>57955360
Women also tend to glue things around their computer.

>>57955606
sick b8

>>57955506
Didn't Direct TV brick the illegal cards that people were using to steal service? I remember that they did it just before THE BIG GAME by sending out small incremental updates.

How can i tell what devices are hardware backdoor free? I have a sony xperia z and a 8350 desktop

I just hope all the phones that haven't been returned catch on fire before they disable them. These people deserve to be burned.

>>57955674
amd + intel processors have backdoors

not sure about mobile cpu's but any modern processor in any laptop/desktop has a backdoor at the hardware level

>>57955625
>Deboarding while a gazillion miles in the sky

You must be special.

>>57955506
I'm sure Microsoft has done it before by accident

>>57955751
they fucked up windows update on older versions of windows to leave people vulnerable in hopes of making them upgrade

>>57955506
Video games

Who fucking cares.

>>57955316
http://hardenedlinux.org/firmware/2016/11/17/neutralize_ME_firmware_on_sandybridge_and_ivybridge.html

>>57955711
Amd too? I cant find any comprehensive list on this.

Whats the solution considering that flos hardware tends to be garbage

>>57955657
Well, that was back in 2001, and if we want to get technical the "small incremental updates" were triggers for a hack which bricked the modified cards. The difference is that with this Samsung case, they're going to disable the phones of users that didn't do anything wrong or illegal, just ignored a consumer product recall.

>>57954437
>using the stock rom
if you do that then you deserve it

>>57955844
samshit phones can't install custom roms as far as I know, at least not new ones.

>>57955810
does this work on the desktop cpus too?

>>57955844
Here's your (You)
The people who are getting uptight this are by definition SJWs. Who cares what they use? Why are you so worried about the danger? Why do you feel the need to protect strangers?

>>57955381
fug

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we have to go back

>>57954437
>>57954623
Sure, it may set a precedent but let's not kid ourselves here that these are practically bombs.

The article even states that Samsung made financial incentives for people to turn in their Note 7s. But apparently people are retarded.

>>57954982
Even if the chances are one and 1.000.000, it is unacceptable. YOUR PHONE SHOULD NEVER EXPLODE FROM CHARGING ALONE

>>57955942
> sjw
> definition

You don't know shit newfag, sjw is a mocking term for slactivists like keyboard warrior. It was never meant to apply to honest proponents of social justice.

>>57954437
>buy phone
>not your phone

Remind me to change brands

>>57955334
>http://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/mobile-phones/next-update-will-brick-every-galaxy-note-7-left-in-the-wild-as-samsung-acts-to-stop-exploding-phones/news-story/fbcf428c7f181582d39a32d71b3f38bb
its illegal to have on on a plane now
any plane

EVEN SHIPPING AND MILITARY AIRCRAFT

its unironically easier to sneak a stick of TNT onto an airplane than it is a galaxy

>>57955994
OK I appreciate your advice. Thanks for explaining what an sjw was too really helpful. I wasn't totally sure but that's really cleared it up.

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>>57956065

>>57954437
You have to accept the update for it to work. You can turn automatic updates off.

>>57956030
>Been doing a lot of flying recently
>Curious as to what crew members or airlines staff would do if someone, with no ill intent, managed to get an S7 on a plane
>Didn't want to ask for fear of being interrogated
Would they just take it and dispose of it or would the person owning the phone be jailed, etc?

>>57954437
>OH MAN SAMSUNG IS TRYING TO DISABLE THE FEW BOMBS THEY HAVE LEFT OUT ON THE MARKET BY PUSHING OUT AN (OPTIONAL, MIND YOU) UPDATE SO THAT THEY DON'T HAVE ANOTHER POTENTIAL LAWSUIT ON THEIR HANDS FROM SOMEONE GETTING FUCKING DISFIGURED FROM A BATTERY FIRE

>MUH FUCKING LIBERTIES OH NO

you guys are fucking retarded

>>57955820
Yeah, it is a bad precedent since its not like they are only bricking rooted phones. But aren't the Note 7s now blocked from being used on cell networks? Aren't they now essentially just a media device.

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>>57956118

Why the hell would this update be optional? There has to be a way to force it, right?

>>57956193
You can still use them on verizon

>>57954623
You are a fucking moron. Corporations don't need precedent to do whatever they please. And anyway, any precedent set by this would be relevant only to other phone-IEDs.

>>57956997
I think he is referring to legal precedent and even then that'd be a false premise because corporations don't decide upon legal precedent.

>>57955812
intel has the managament engine, amd has an equivalent, the psp.
Read here
>https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf
As far as I know, you can disable that stuff in older versions of amd and intel (for intel it's
core 2 or earlier), where it comes in physically different locations.

I wonder if apple could brick my hackintosh

Freetards BTFO
Literally doesn't matter whether a software is free or not (protip: nothing is) since everything is piped directly to the NSA anyways.

>>57956129
$75,000 US fine and up to 10 years imprisonment if it catches flame mid-flight.
You can still take one on.

>>57957144
>>57957144
Nope

It's 200k and 10 years if you even bring one past the security checkpoint now

>>57956770
based verizon

>>57954982
>What the are actual chances of it exploding?
From what I've read, it's almost inevitable with the Samsung batteries. LG batteries accounted for roughly 30% of devices so that leaves you with a 70%chance that it's going to blow up at some point.

I'd call that grounds for deactivation, wouldn't you?

>>57955812
the rule thumb is that intel cpus pre-2008 (i think) are safe from HW backdoors

for AMD it's pre-2013.