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MacPro said:

Seriously, they picked Flash installer as a Trojan Horse for Mac users?  They must be looking for the least Mac savvy users out there I guess.  

You can:

a) expend a lot of effort to craft a trojan that will run on 80% of the targets and have a 1% chance of successful infection.
OR
b) expend relatively little effort to craft a trojan that will run on 1% of the targets and have an 80% chance of successful infection.

In both cases the infected population is 0.8% but (b) was a lot less work. 

22july2013 said:

There's a solution a million times simpler than this, which I have explained 100 times in various places, and nobody sees its value. That is, when the caller is "connected" the caller is faced with an audio "captcha". Depending upon the caller's actions, the caller may end up in voice mail, or getting disconnected, or getting the phone to ring for the recipient to answer. You don't need a contacts database for this. You don't need Siri. You don't need a "do not call" registry. The first person who invents this will be an instant billionaire, but apparently nobody wants free billions. I have been trying to promote this solution since 1993.

Doesn't need to be invented because it already exists. My old VOIP provider had an audio challenge when the number was unknown or from a number that was considered spam. The reason it wouldn't work enough to make anyone a millionaire, much less a billionaire, is that as soon as more than a tiny percent of people started using it, it would be trivial to add voice-to-text on the calling line to decode the audio captcha.

The Siri solution is exactly what I've been looking for... If I know the contact, let them through. If I don't, straight to voicemail. Hopefully I can tell the system to ONLY look at my contacts. The step beyond that is adding spam features to the speech-to-text that is part of voicemail. If the message matches some database, auto-delete the voicemail.

GeorgeBMac said:

But, one thing hasn't changed:   Apple doesn't do funny.   They take their products seriously.

Windows Security: You are coming to a sad realization. Cancel or Allow?
PC: ...sigh... Allow.

I stopped watching about 30 seconds in when he demonstrated ignorance between the concepts of "screen resolution" and "pixel density".

What I find very interesting with regards to the whole Alex Jones thing is that it seems many of the same people who say it's Apple's right to kick out whomever they want from their "private space" often are very vocal about the absolute need to ensure that Comcast/Verizon/AT&T/etc "private spaces" don't have that same right (a la Net Neutrality).