5 Disturbing Things Hidden in Microsoft Windows

There has never been a time like right now. A time where you’ve been given the ability to directly connect with millions of people, not face-to-face, but at an almost transcendental level, and it’s all thanks to the personal computer. But with this great privilege comes a price, the slow realization that maybe things just aren’t what they seem to be. It is up to the user to discover the truth by utilizing this new form of collectivism at their disposal.

And Microsoft Windows has made this possible in both a spiritual and physical sense. But as you look deeper into the beloved OS, you may come across some unsettling things that you did not notice before.

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[nationsquid]

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[urk]

As a software engineer, I guarantee you the hall of tortured souls is a reference to development. It feels like that sometimes with any software, especially when you want to sleep but a critical bug still needs to be fixed

[paulw]

It's very inspirational to see you chug along and continue making videos despite your head being cleaved in half. That can't be easy, and I applaud and look up to you so much for not letting it slow you down.

[bennetfox]

I will forever love how Linus Torvald told the NSA to take a long walk off of a short pier when they wanted him to put a back door into Linux for them.

[MusicaX]

Telemetry isn't really an issue of privacy it's an issue of them using your information to sell it to third parties so they can use focused ads to sell you things you would be interested in. This should 100% be disabled if you can because it’s just theft, pure and simple.

[majoraslayer]

The most terrifying thing of all was that brutal butchering of the word "telemetry" lol

[dm]

That Excel Easter egg is so hard to find that I suspect one of the people who created it leaked how to find it online and just pretended to be a rando.

[zzco]

7:49 Clarifying here, but it's not that it wasn't _legal_, just that it wasn't legal to export commercially (e.g. to other countries), because the US didn't want encryption that couldn't be broken by mainframes at the time. Lawmakers at the time had a real fear that strong cryptography would be used against the U.S.

[callme_jake]

I'll be honest, your Halloween costume caught me VERY off-guard. But it's really cool! Also, nice video.

[soundspark]

A bit of a correction on the _NSAKEY controversy: The _NSAKEY was never used in production (at least for civilian use), but instead had been included as an emergency backup. _KEY was the primary key used by Microsoft to sign cryptographic modules for use with Windows, and _NSAKEY was a backup in case Microsoft had lost their private key and in such an instance the NSA would have the authority to sign crypto modules with their own private key.

[Pendarr]

Very cool of NationSquid to make this video even with that splitting headache

[voidwalker]

If I recall correctly, I remember reading that the Hall of Tortured Souls was a Classic Doom reference. It even has the zigzag tight bridge that was infamous from Doom 2's The Chasm.

[feelincrispy]

Dave’s garage (senior developer of windows 95 - single handily coded task manager) has spoken about most of these and explained them

[IamPyu-v]

that knife through your head scared the hell out of me. as someone who does not celebrate halloween I always forget it exists.

[WohaoG]

telemetry isn't pronounced "teh·luh·meh·tree" but "tuh·leh·muh·tree"
at first the mispronunciation seemed like a joke but the more you said it the more unsure I got, and it's october 31, so what's spookier than being corrected, right?

[yesterdaysrose]

I have a perfectly reasonable explanation for the Hall of Tortured Souls. The biggest game fever around 1995 is DOOM. Decimator of corporate LAN bandwidths everywhere. Microsoft Excel team goes "Well that's rad. Can someone knock off a crappy Doom clone for an easter egg?" and some John Carmack wannabe in the Excel team goes "Oh! Me ! Me ! I'm very good at maths, you see. They wouldn't have put me in Excel team otherwise, you see."

[iaxdm.]

I love how a straight face was kept the whole time and no attention was drawn to the knife whatsoever. How many attampts did it take xD

[courtneymertz]

Perhaps the most disturbing thing to come out of Windows is Windows 11’s system requirements. Everyone was terrified about them!

[Theopress]

Almost all of my favorite YouTubes dropped today! I feel like this video is a throw back to your older styles of horror type content.

[jennalblackmore]

I appreciate the dedication it takes to be struck with a cleaver and covered in blood and still make a video for Halloween instead of going to the emergency room!