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bymrbill1234
2024 @10:44AM
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Attached to: Hidden Camera Concerns Plague Short-Term Rental Industry
AirBnB are a scummy company.
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bymrbill1234
2023 @05:08AM
(#63768448)
Attached to: Apple Plans Major 'Watch X' Overhaul for Device's 10-Year Anniversary
Waiting for blood glucose monitoring. Doesn't have to be spot on accurate, but if it can show an approximation and trends up/down that is still worth having.
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bymrbill1234
2020 @06:37AM
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Attached to: 750 Million Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Approved For Release In Florida Keys
This sounds like the premise for an apocalyptic B movie.
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bymrbill1234
2020 @04:39AM
(#60425771)
Attached to: Publishers Ask Apple CEO for Same App Store Deal Given To Amazon
Amazon want customers at any cost. There are a significant number of customers who will only subscribe through their Apple devices - after all, it is just a fingerprint or face-id away. So simple.
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bymrbill1234
2020 @03:59PM
(#60255324)
Attached to: How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime
They compromised the servers to install malware on all the phones. All of them.
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bymrbill1234
2020 @03:25PM
(#60255232)
Attached to: World's Pile of Electronic Waste Grows Ever Higher: Study
Yes - try replacing batteries in Bose QC 35 noise cancelling headphones. When the rechargeable battery is depleted you are supposed to throw £300 headphones away.
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bymrbill1234
2020 @03:01PM
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Attached to: How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime
Encrochat was not hacked. The phone it was running on was and monitoring malware installed. It had a custom android implementation and some hardware mods on the phone. Same could be done for Signal on an off the shelf unmodified phone.
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bymrbill1234
2020 @09:53AM
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Attached to: How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime
Reminds me of Stuxnet.
People keep asking me why I use Signal for my messaging. What do you have to hide they say? Nothing at all - just want to protect my privacy. This is vastly different from anonymity. If I was a person of interest to a government agency - my privacy would be out of the window regardless. There is always a way. I prefer to be out of the dragnet of hoovering my personal messages though.
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bymrbill1234
2020 @09:47AM
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Attached to: Google Removes 25 Android Apps Caught Stealing Facebook Credentials
Why do people persist on using Android? They like shiny things?
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bymrbill1234
020 @02:56AM
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Attached to: When the Police Get Filmed, Is There More Accountability?
And commissioner Outlaw.
Also - a fair number of police are obese. Are these no fitness standards in the police? No wonder they are so ready to shoot -= hey'd never catch anyone on foot!
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bymrbill1234
8, 2018 @05:26AM
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Attached to: Nearly a Third of Tech Workers Are Ready To #DeleteFacebook
Google employees watn to delete Facebook? LOL! Delete Google! I've been weaning myself off it for a while now. Duck Duck Go for me - and use Google sparingly when necessary (no logins, Ghostery, delete cookies). Ok, it won't make me invisible to them - but seriously - fuck Google.
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bymrbill1234
17, 2016 @01:24AM
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Attached to: Malware That Fakes Bank Login Screens Found In Google Ads
When are Google going to wake up and take security of their mobile OS seriously?
Their security model is broken - completely. They just need to start over.
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bymrbill1234
2016 @03:39AM
(#51981191)
Attached to: Malaria Has Been Eliminated In Europe
Just in time for a new virus - Zika
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bymrbill1234
3, 2016 @01:31PM
(#51901763)
Attached to: Amazon Kindle Oasis With 'Months' of Battery Life, Redesigned Body Launched
Not Amazon, but Apple
http://appleinsider.com/articl...
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bymrbill1234
2016 @01:32PM
(#51638177)
Attached to: Government To Bring Forward Law To Close BBC 'iPlayer Loophole'
Physical subscriber addresses change all the time. It isn't the ISP's job to keep track of anyones subscription services. What if a subscriber wants to watch iPlayer while out on a 3G or 4G network from his mobile device, or while away from home. They have paid - so why shouldn't they be able to? What if you connect to your friends WIFI and use iPlayer, but he doesn't have a license? Trying to swat VPN's is like a game of wack-o-mole. And this doesn't even consider the privacy implications. The plan is unworkable. It would be simpler to just offer a login/password combination for each subscriber (if they want it). Even that will not thwart those who don't want to pay - there will be a Kodi plugin to stream content in no time you can be sure - in fact most of the good stuff is already available to stream.
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