[–] 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

I think a more appropriate analogy would be using a laser cutter to cut pieces of wood from a design you came up with. You used a tool to make something, without the tool you would not have the knowledge to make all the precise cuts by hand.

Your analogy is comparing ai to a human, when it should be considered as a tool.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    I just had to go back and check we were talking about the same game. There's no fight button in the default control scheme, you just bump into the thing you want to fight, then a popup shows in the middle of the screen to start the fight.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Also just want to add to your points that the NSA didn't have to admit they developed this. Putting their name to it basically guaranteed that everyone would pour through the code and assume the worst. So it get hyper scrutinzed. So if they had wanted to put a back door in it they would have released it without saying they made it.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago

    That doesnt change anything about my original point. They are conflicting missions, whether you add certain or not.

    And no matter what you call it, backdooring ghidra defeats the point of both, it means no one will use it, which allows malware to run rampant. (Ghidra was released during the height of the cryptolocker craze, it allowed reversing those crypto lockers to be done by anyone, effectively neutering many of them).

    And when it gets caught its immediately attributable to the malware division, which they dont want either.

    There is zero point backdooring ghidra. Now XZ? *sshole? Thats the level of sophisticated backdoor I would expect from the NSA.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Only true if they can abuse the backdoor, if its tied to NSA infrastructure (which a competent backdoor would be), they couldn't use it. There is also precedence, the Germans didnt hesitate to publicise that Angela Merkel's phone was hacked, they could have used the malware to feed false information instead. Stuxnet was exposed to embarrass the US/Israel.

    Cyber security companies would also have no qualms about publicising it. Finding a NSA backdoor would put them on the map, and they have no use for a backdoor.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    I agree a half finished game isn't what OP is looking for, and a lot of the gameplay (especially later) revolves around finding your way through what are effectively mazes.

    I play it one handed though. It's turn based combat and when out of combat you just put your finger on the screen and it walks towards it? I didn't even know a d-pad option existed 😅

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    I wonder if mobile version of Cataclysm-DDA is open-sourced, like the desktop one. It is probably the most mechanically complex zombie-survival roguelike you can find

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago

    Not entirely and with absolute certainty, but more than any proprietary software in general. The more eyes on it the better.

    At the end of the day, you have to trust someone and a few black boxes in between as soon as you connect to the internet. So if there's something I'd really rather not let out into the world, it's either on an airgapped encrypted system or a piece of paper hidden where my keys get lost.

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