robertwalter

Back in Feb, my sister bought a new Honda on her platinum Amex card. I negotiated the car price (6.5% off the full out the door price) and the (1.75%/60m) CU loan, and, about 6 months before she bought the car, the Amex credit limit increase from 10k$ to 25k$.

Day at before the sale, I called Amex to see if their system would choke on the 22k$ price. They checked and said it would go, and would have gone without checking, with no problem. 

So she bought it using her Apple Watch as my 83yo mom (who was likely the Apple Pay launch day user ever) made a video of the event. (Finance manager at dealer said "I've never seen such a large charge before, and was amazed it went through). 

Sis got 32k Delta Skymiles (22 for the car, plus a bonus for spending over 25k$ on the card that year). I got 10k Delta Skymiles too (because at the time I raised the limit, I told them we would use another card if they didn't toss 10k miles my way for the trouble I would go through to get the dealer to accept the card and they would lose their 300$ net if they tried to negotiate me down. When I asked for my miles 6 months after negotiating the deal, AMEX tried to say they couldn't find a record of my side deal and offer me 3k, then 5k. I didn't give up and rode that bronco to the promised 10k reward).

Next day we paid the card balance with the bank loan. 

Sorry i can't post the video as the type was rejected by the site.  Here's a still if her going in for the payment kill. 

gunner1954 said:

rotateleftbyte said:

People are going to keep buying crap kit based upon the price and not the security.
This DDOS is only the beginning. There will be more and bigger events before anything is done to improve security.
This is a disaster waiting to happen. To the general public it won't matter if Apple are secure or not, all IOT thingamyjibs will be tarred with the same brush.

There are millions of devices in transit from China. The vast majority will be totally insecure.

I am beginning to wonder if this is the beginning of the end of the internet as we know it.
With millions and millions and millions of devices working together in a DDOS event short of pulling the plug on every home router you can't stop it in a month of sundays.

Some of us have made a stand against all IOT devices Homekit or not. None will be connected to any network I have any control over for the forseeable future.

And they will continue to buy cheap kit and continue to use the cheap kit they already have until some law enforcement authority breaks down their door and arrests the user for contributing to a terrorist organization. Or those companies with deep pockets affected by such DDoS attacks and other attacks take these idiots to court and have their names run through the media before being heavily fined by the courts for said contribution to hacking activities, being that intent does not have to be proved under the DCMA.

More likely solution is something like the MAC addresses assigned to insecure devices will be blocked by the ISP and eventually devices will have to be certified by the FCC to comply with some minimum security standards in order to be saleable. 

Illustration 620 is the magic gesture for making screen shots of your watch screen!

Target, if it risks security, they delay fixing it, if it fixes security they delay risking it. Target is good at delay and risk but not fixing. 

As a shareholder, I'd have preferred the endgame be to offer AP in every market listed on Apple's store site. 

If if your DNA is to bring life changing and enhancing tech to "people", you can't do them justice by bifurcating them into "major" and "minor" markets especially if you are officially in their market earning revenue off them. 

Business necessarily consists of cherry picking but I have a hard time to make sense of it in this case.