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sflagel said:

This may not be directed related to the headline of your article, but to the content. How did the Apple Watch help you shed 50 kg?

For me the nagging encouragement took a couple of months to kick in. Then I got it. The watch is about fitness. My VO2Max was the huge change for me. Top 1% for me for my age now, compared to just above average when I got my first AW. Thanks Apple for putting health at front of mind.

Simple. Don’t give anyone your number. That way any calls, are phishing calls. If a service you need, needs a number to validate, get a burner number (e.g. VoIP, e-SIM) and enable only when needed. Slightly inconvenient, but surprisingly workable.

Wonderful article. Great comments so far too!

Just don’t give these sites real details if you choose to register. Surely that would mitigate this issue in most cases?

Nice article Chip. You mentioned network router hacks. Today a UK ISP directed me to use https://www.samknows.com/technology/agents to check connection speed. This agent seems to be being installed quite widely on routers and smells like a dangerous thing to have lurking on a router.

triggered by accessing a website https://samknows.com/realspeed/ which then weasels its way onto your router to access privileged data, seems like an exploitable way of accessing network traffic.