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This covers an interesting arc. Adobe went from an ambitious upstart trying to unseat an established, albeit arrogant, standard, to becoming the arrogant standard.

Right now I do whatever I can to avoid using Adobe software. The final straw was when they went to overpriced rental software that forced updates whether you wanted them or not. They are just abusive and arrogant and overpriced. Fortunately I don't HAVE to use it for my work so I have the option. More and more though, I hear from my friends that DO use it that they are looking at alternatives or at least wish they could use alternatives. And alternatives ARE out there. The unrest is growing. Soon options will appear and Adobe is going to be unseated.

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anantksundaram said:

JWSC said:

For several decades after the breakup we saw tremendous advances in cellular communications as the baby bells competed with each other. 

The "tremendous" advances were from carriers? Really? Can you cite some examples? Or were they from telecom equipment companies (e.g., Motorola, Nokia, Ericsson)?

Also, how do you explain the better coverage, the higher quality, far more data, and the lower telecom prices all over Europe and in countries like Japan and S Korea, where few -- if any -- state-owned telecom champions were broken up?

As I remember from the time, the biggest issue was that Ma Bell was resisting change. New technologies were in the pipeline, but there was a huge clog at the end. Third party phone manufacturers could not sell their products because Ma Bell would not let you plug it in. That sort of thing. Breaking ip AT&T didn't add any new technologies, competition forced the baby bells to accept new technologies.

This is a bit more serious than most of the posters here seem to think

AppleInsider said:, Check Point's researchers then managed to make a trusted app send the code to trigger this bug and exploit it..

This is the critical part that most are missing. They made a trusted app, one that was approved that could have potentially appeared in the AppStore or the MacAppStore, that had the trigger code and instructions in place. This code would then attach itself to the DB. They had it crash the app, but it could have just as easily have sent your IDs and passwords to the mothership. 

I suspect though that it will be patched with the iOS and macOS updates this fall. 

I have set all of my devices to require holding the Home button to trigger Siri. I don't want it coming on by accident.

Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal in 2007. that was when I stopped going to it for reliable reports.