It would seem that my most witty comments don't get as many ++ as the simple comments do.

Disappointing.

I've just noticed there are dogs available as pet too now.
No wolves available though unlike big cat.

Intel management engine pwned over USB

https://bleepingcomputer.com/news/...

With everyday that passes, this Intel ME rabbit hole just keeps getting deeper.

Why is everyone+dog starting to harden their systems against quantum computers cracking it? Are usable quantum computers available for all the insiders now? This is all giving me the deja vu feel of eternalblue/wannacry fix Microsoft was passionately recommending to update back when it wasn't publicly know.

My laptop just went through a BSOD and I've been noticing a noise from the hard disk even before the BSOD. Dump says the process that failed is ntoskernel. That's no help.
SMART test said hard disk state as OK but crystaldiskinfo says the following which confused me even more. Is it supposed to be this way?