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  • Rosenblatt throws in the towel on AAPL coverage

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    If you are wrong every time or your team loses every game for four years straight then you should definitely reconsider your place in this world.
    cornchipwatto_cobra

  • US Attorney General William Barr's push against encryption concerns some FBI officials

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    If we all give up our freedom and liberty under the premise that we might catch a few criminals then this is the end of the US Constitution as we know it. There is simply no way that a backdoor will be kept under lock and key -- they always get out or get abused.
    baconstangviclauyycjony0olsbonobobspice-boycornchipwatto_cobra

  • $115K in iPhones stolen out of one car, $200K in iPhones lifted from Best Buy in the Apple...

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    lkrupp said:
    We have never heard any information as to whether Apple supports stolen iPhones or not. If someone buys a stolen iPhone and tries to activate it, what happens? Does Apple even keep track of serial numbers and where their devices are shipped and sold? Does Apple know what serial numbers belong to stolen devices? There are literally dozens of posts per day on the Apple Discussion forums asking how to circumvent Activation Lock. The stories are more often than not obviously concocted. So what happens to the iPhones that are stolen? Who buys them and do they get them activated by Apple?
    We have two very different scenarios here. The first is one stolen from an owner that has been using it (like one of the pick pocketed ones in this article). Most of those will have activation lock enabled and those will have very little value to the thieves.

    The second (and is our big question mark) is one stolen from a store/distribution center that isn't activation locked and ideally the stolen ones have their serial numbers recorded. Obviously the distributor would have to send those serial numbers to Apple to enable those to prevent their activation.
    Soliwatto_cobra

  • Comparing Apple's 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro versus the 17-inch MacBook Pro

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    Oh, that MagSafe port is beautiful. Eliminating that was a mistake in my book.
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  • Disney+ accounts hack highlights need for more password security

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    fastasleep said:
    the article is subtly recommending to use complex apple key chain generated passwords. 

    on the surface they seem secure because they need a password, or biometric and a related hardware device to access; but even without that they all follow a pattern, so i do not use them for anything important.

    the speedy turn around suggests people reused passwords and email addresses from a previously hacked service; yet the number is small compared to the user base - perhaps these people have compromised computers with key loggers installed.
    You create something more secure than three sets of six random characters separated by dashes? I just checked the last one I generated for a site in https://howsecureismypassword.net and it says:

    It would take a computer about

    43 QUINTILLION YEARS

    to crack your password

    Even if everyone were to use the same pattern with three sets of six random characters separated by dashes -- thus eliminating the value of the dashes -- it's 7.7 x 10^30 permutations if only letters a-Z are used. It's nearly uncrackable. I'm not sure if you are stating that the 18 character password is sufficient or not?
    fastasleep