"Exploit" is a weird way of spelling "backdoor", but ok.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2026
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I wonder which agencies and governments have access? I’m guessing bare minimum NSA, CIA, and higher level clearances at the FBI and DHS. Maybe even some of the 5 eyes countries. Definitely Mossad, that’s a given.
We'll never know how many acronym'd dangers to freedom had access. What we can know is that now, it's a free-for-all.
Coincidentally also the name of one of my most prized folders.
Hacker: “I have all your files.”
User: “It won’t even let me log into Outlook.”
"It's totally not an intended back door" -Microslop, any minute now
Pictured above: microslop's PR lead
I just want Clippy back. He pissed me off so much in Office Docs, I didn't appreciate what I had at the time. RIP you little bastard, you can show me how to use periods anytime you want 😭
Vibe coding is the future guys!!
Vibe coding: any USB flash memory can bypass your disk encryption.
Bitlocker was implemented well before LLMs were even a concept, this isn't a vibe coding thing.
Literally any programming issue is now vibe coding, didn't you hear? People wrote perfect code always before LLMs took over all coding and started writing slop.
This must be true, I never even heard of software vulnerabilities before AI and Windows was beloved by all without any problems whatsoever.
Of course, we used to have it rough; we used to have to call the Internet through a 56k modem, download 3MB .mp3s from WinMX, burn them to CDs and play them on a boombox just to listen to music.
You try to tell the youth of today that and they'll never believe you.
I'm not old! I'm still in my 30s 🥲
Yet I too did all of the above except winmx, I used limewire lol
I've got a decade on you then 👴
There were so many back them, Limewire, Napster, eDonkey, gnutella and the old old school IRC+FTP servers.
Then bittorrent came out and blew everything away, Suprnova was the OG Pirate Bay.
Haha I started on computers really young, so I got to experience a lot of the early 2000's era internet.
I forgot about eDonkey, sharing forums are another, used to frequent astalavista forums lol.
You're right about torrents though in general, really changed the sharing game.
I remember Firefox 2 having TABS, instead of a bunch of IE or Netscape windows lmao.
Trying to play warcraft 3 custom maps and getting booted from games because of dialup making the map download take forever (or a phone call mid-game causing me to lag out and get kicked).
I didn't get cable/dsl until my parents divorced around 2008, I remember sitting in the corner of our empty house (they had to short sell it during the housing crisis and my mom took most of the furniture when she moved out) trying to connect to my neighbor friend's wifi (that I had flashed ddwrt on lmao) with this windows 95 laptop I managed to flash Linux mint onto to make it usable just to watch some anime.
Fun times.
I remember Firefox 2 having TABS, instead of a bunch of IE or Netscape windows lmao.
The good ole days when tabs were mindblowing innovations. They hardly used any gigadatacenters to function (just most of my sweet, sweet 32MBs of RAM and only someone looking to meet the BSOD would dare open 3).
Trying to play warcraft 3 custom maps and getting booted from games because of dialup making the map download take forever (or a phone call mid-game causing me to lag out and get kicked).
I remember that period, if you tried to join a DotA map after an update and you didn't pre-download it from the website you were never going to finish downloading before you were booted... and this was before MOBAs were toxic!
Word of wisdown ! XD
If it has a back door the size of a barn door, it's not encryption, it's a hoax.