I would rather they spend their time talking about how to secure your phone in the event it's lost or stolen and how to avoid fraud and scams. These are important issues to the people they are supposed to be protecting but somehow are being ignored for more sensationalism.
What these people forget is that average people use these devices to do online banking/shopping/bill pay and that a lost or stolen device that doesn't have good encryption is just another way identity theft and fraud can happen. If protecting the people from fraud and identity theft that costs it's victims over $15 billion a year isn't a priority for these people then they shouldn't be in law enforcement.
It's not law enforcement that makes me want to keep my phone encrypted and password protected it's all the thieves and fraud.
What the law enforcement clambering for a back door or weaker encryption forget or fail to see is that the 7k cases they are talking about isn't even a drop in the bucket compared to the 17 million identity thefts each year
It's not just the hot summers it's the very mild weather in the winters that brings the overall average up.
The story is about 3 sharks and they haven't determined the cause of death yet they will know more after the autopsy. Everyone is guessing the cold but they may have got into some unreported chemical spill.
This is very true, I grew up in the mid-west and went to a small high school with less than 100 students. The town sits on a lake at the mouth of the river that feeds it and has a lot of tourism making it a wealthy community. There where 19 students in my class 100% graduated and 14 of them went on to college.
The place I live now 36 miles away has much larger classes with about 1,800 students at the high school and a 76% graduation rate.
The prize was up to $500 I don't know about SC but in my state you can cash in a winning ticket less than $600 at a local retailer. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them where cashed in prior to them finding out.
You are not figuring in the base temperature or things that create or let heat in like taking the trash out, computers, TVs, and cooking. These things are not in use when you are not home.
It's usually windy here also the other day it was -4f with 12mph winds just opening the door to take out the trash allowed a lot of cold in. On the plus side it's a great place for wind farms.
My power company has a smart thermostat program where they control the thermostat to give you a reduced power bill. My neighbor wasn't smart enough to tell them to go to hell and found that they were saving him money by turning the AC off during the day when most people are at work except him he is retired...
If it were a smart thermostat provided by the cable company and it suddenly stopped functioning it could possibly cause damage to the home broken pipes etc... (it's cold enough today where I live) though my cable company doesn't supply thermostats but the power company does.
This could be a problem for the cable company where as the copyright holder may be able to to ask for the content to be removed or the customer to cease the cable company would still be liable for damages if they cut off service to a smart home device they provided.
That is the issue if trust is low for the consumers it will have a negative effect on businesses that don't except cash. Unless at some point we move from cash to a treasury card there will always be small businesses and larger businesses that will accept cash. I couldn't imagine walmart suddenly letting money slip from their grasp because they would decide no more cash and to take only debit and credit cards.
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This is a really good point. I live in a small mid-western town and it's well known in these small towns that it is really important to have good community leadership where even a small change like loosing a couple businesses could cause a town to fail.
I lived in a small town (population 36k) that had a factory which supported the a good chunk of people in the town in one way or another but was closed almost 20 years ago they never managed to bring in any new business and the town has large sections of vacant and condemned homes and businesses.
I'm not seeing a future where only bank transactions or credit cards are excepted, it would require faith in these financial institutions to be private, secure, and accurate in their accounting. The three places where they fail.
I was thinking it would be more likely that an screen would play ads the entire trip and they would still charge you full price plus charge businesses to advertise.
The account sign up on some will tell if an account exists just by popping it into the username field on the form without submitting it (like gmail) others you have to submit before you know (even the ones that use your email from another service as the username) but it's still quicker to script it out to verify the accounts before you try them.
It is true that they could have typed a username that already exist but is not the one they intended (especially with popular service) which means they still are getting "invalid username or password" as an error but if the username doesn't exist then an error that specifies the username is invalid would be nice.
I spent weeks changing discs and copying my DVD collection to my media server at one point this is after I had already re-purchased most of my VHS collection on DVD. If I can't purchase new movies in a format that I can place on my media server then I'll just watch what's on netflix or hulu and they go suck it.
That may be a little off topic.. firstly they are saying that the information reported is false and misleading not that they released code that would jeopardize public safety. secondly and probably the most important they are suing a reporter instead of the security bloger who made the claims they reported.
Not to mention they would probably have their face stuck in their cell phone on facebook all day everyday. Perhaps they are targeting people in that age group on facebook so they know which ones not to hire.
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I would rather they spend their time talking about how to secure your phone in the event it's lost or stolen and how to avoid fraud and scams. These are important issues to the people they are supposed to be protecting but somehow are being ignored for more sensationalism.
What these people forget is that average people use these devices to do online banking/shopping/bill pay and that a lost or stolen device that doesn't have good encryption is just another way identity theft and fraud can happen. If protecting the people from fraud and identity theft that costs it's victims over $15 billion a year isn't a priority for these people then they shouldn't be in law enforcement.
It's not law enforcement that makes me want to keep my phone encrypted and password protected it's all the thieves and fraud.
That's true however there are still plenty of scams looking for access to things that the equifax breach didn't give them.
What the law enforcement clambering for a back door or weaker encryption forget or fail to see is that the 7k cases they are talking about isn't even a drop in the bucket compared to the 17 million identity thefts each year
Wouldn't putting Alexa on your pc just result in Cortanna and Alexa having a cat fight...
It's not just the hot summers it's the very mild weather in the winters that brings the overall average up.
The story is about 3 sharks and they haven't determined the cause of death yet they will know more after the autopsy. Everyone is guessing the cold but they may have got into some unreported chemical spill.
This is very true, I grew up in the mid-west and went to a small high school with less than 100 students. The town sits on a lake at the mouth of the river that feeds it and has a lot of tourism making it a wealthy community. There where 19 students in my class 100% graduated and 14 of them went on to college.
The place I live now 36 miles away has much larger classes with about 1,800 students at the high school and a 76% graduation rate.
If you are purchasing them at a convenience store then chances are they don't have enough cash on hand to cash a bunch of $500 tickets.
The prize was up to $500 I don't know about SC but in my state you can cash in a winning ticket less than $600 at a local retailer. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them where cashed in prior to them finding out.
I would buy pork rind flavored vodka...
You are not figuring in the base temperature or things that create or let heat in like taking the trash out, computers, TVs, and cooking. These things are not in use when you are not home.
It's usually windy here also the other day it was -4f with 12mph winds just opening the door to take out the trash allowed a lot of cold in. On the plus side it's a great place for wind farms.
My power company has a smart thermostat program where they control the thermostat to give you a reduced power bill. My neighbor wasn't smart enough to tell them to go to hell and found that they were saving him money by turning the AC off during the day when most people are at work except him he is retired...
If it were a smart thermostat provided by the cable company and it suddenly stopped functioning it could possibly cause damage to the home broken pipes etc... (it's cold enough today where I live) though my cable company doesn't supply thermostats but the power company does.
This could be a problem for the cable company where as the copyright holder may be able to to ask for the content to be removed or the customer to cease the cable company would still be liable for damages if they cut off service to a smart home device they provided.
That is the issue if trust is low for the consumers it will have a negative effect on businesses that don't except cash. Unless at some point we move from cash to a treasury card there will always be small businesses and larger businesses that will accept cash. I couldn't imagine walmart suddenly letting money slip from their grasp because they would decide no more cash and to take only debit and credit cards.
Hashtags: vote in the primary elections, vote in the state and local elections, not just federal.
This is a really good point. I live in a small mid-western town and it's well known in these small towns that it is really important to have good community leadership where even a small change like loosing a couple businesses could cause a town to fail.
I lived in a small town (population 36k) that had a factory which supported the a good chunk of people in the town in one way or another but was closed almost 20 years ago they never managed to bring in any new business and the town has large sections of vacant and condemned homes and businesses.
I don't understand how it's strange to reason that a bank or credit card company cannot operate with out the trust of the consumer that use it.
I'm not seeing a future where only bank transactions or credit cards are excepted, it would require faith in these financial institutions to be private, secure, and accurate in their accounting. The three places where they fail.
I was thinking it would be more likely that an screen would play ads the entire trip and they would still charge you full price plus charge businesses to advertise.
The account sign up on some will tell if an account exists just by popping it into the username field on the form without submitting it (like gmail) others you have to submit before you know (even the ones that use your email from another service as the username) but it's still quicker to script it out to verify the accounts before you try them.
It is true that they could have typed a username that already exist but is not the one they intended (especially with popular service) which means they still are getting "invalid username or password" as an error but if the username doesn't exist then an error that specifies the username is invalid would be nice.
I spent weeks changing discs and copying my DVD collection to my media server at one point this is after I had already re-purchased most of my VHS collection on DVD. If I can't purchase new movies in a format that I can place on my media server then I'll just watch what's on netflix or hulu and they go suck it.
That may be a little off topic.. firstly they are saying that the information reported is false and misleading not that they released code that would jeopardize public safety. secondly and probably the most important they are suing a reporter instead of the security bloger who made the claims they reported.
Depends!
Not to mention they would probably have their face stuck in their cell phone on facebook all day everyday. Perhaps they are targeting people in that age group on facebook so they know which ones not to hire.
You should try googling windows 10 phone... you'll understand the hopes and dreams