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dysamoria said:

How are individual users impacted by shit like this when they are on a family plan (ie: dad pays the bill for four family members who have their own phones on his plan)? Is it a guarantee of the same vulnerabilities? Does each user have their SSN associated with their phones, or is that just the account holder whose SSN is stored?

No, only the name of record ("account holder") has to provide a Social Security Number so the telco can get a credit report on them — from one of the credit rating outfits, known far and wide for spilling personally identifiable information. (No one gets to opt out of credit rating if they have any form of credit: mortgage, car loam, credit cards; the best you can do is to freeze reporting to minimize further identity theft.)

k2kw said:

GeorgeBMac said:

Epic must not be doing well in court.   Sounds like they're trying their luck by buying some politicians.

Tech companies aren’t as loved as they and their stockholders think they are.

    Don't expect either of the Senators from California to sign on to the proposed legislation.

fallenjt said:

And AAPL after hour trading drops over 1%. What kind of WS bullshit is that?

Please. Apple has been on a tear the last few trading days, presumably because most investors figured they'd see another band-up quarter — and they did. Then some of them decided to "profit take," and cash in. It's all part of the capitalist game.

Got my Real ID license last year in Maryland without ever leaving my desk, but then again Maryland isn't trying to suppress voting.

It may be a while before I ever get in an airplane again (now more because of psychotic fellow passengers and insanely inadequate legroom than COVID fears), but I've been to enough one-gate airports to know that the screener/checkin clerk.baggage handler is going to say, "Uh uh. You have to show me your real license, not a picture." If TSA approves the use of this, it should work at major hubs, but smaller airports may be an issue.

maestro64 said:

The only question why would you want your VPN traffic to run through Apple’s relay service as they suggest, it’s just another layer of latency you have to deal with,  

I’m assuming it keeps your ISP from spying on you as well, since it has secure encryption connection between safari and the websites your visiting. The ISP should only see random data going to the Apple relay server.

Yes, this is to keep the Verizons and other big telecom ISPs from selling your browsing habits to advertisers.... and whatever other uses they may make of your data.