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Apple advises iPhone 5 owners to update to iOS 10.3.4 by November 3
JFC_PA said:
I: the gps functions for communication purposes such as app purchases etc. over the air. If your using your device as a passive player nothing will change.dysamoria said:I use my iPhone 4 as an iPod, without cellular enabled. Does this issue impact me?What do you mean by "passive player"?I too have multiple iPhones that have no cellular, but they're well-used devices, which are used to purchase apps, take notes, play games, take photos and send email. All via wifi.It's still unclear to me whether these devices, which run the gamut from 4s through 8 are impacted. A couple points:I do not have, and never have had, GPS or location features enabled on any of the devices. I fail to see the relationship between GPS functionality (which I know can help with very tiny time offsets) and something like a date/time check to ensure that a certificate is valid.More elucidation would be great. Anyone?
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Steelers Ben Roethlisberger fined $5000 for wearing Apple Watch on sidelines
CloudTalkin said:
Nah bud, that's a common mistake. It was actually an Antikythera mechanism.entropys said:In the movie Ben Hur one of the Roman soldiers can be seen with a wrist watch.
Ancient history humor is always the best humor.Hahaha. Good one.I had to go look it up, and then realized that I'd read all about this a few years back, just didn't remember the name. Great stuff.
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NY Attorney General & 7 other states target Facebook in antitrust probe
Unfortunately, that wouldn't really help as much as people want to think it would. It would disperse some of the data collection, but companies can always sell or share data. And breaking them up wouldn't help with all the addictive crap they're all embedding in their products.kestral said:Break Facebook up.
THIS is pretty much the only thing that would seriously get the attention of big data. I'd probably be okay with it, based on all the documented lies that they've told over the years. They have caused immeasurable damage to our society, and continue to do so on an ongoing basis.
Put Mark and Sheryl in jail.
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Phone numbers of nearly 420M Facebook users exposed online
StrangeDays said:
Cool. What’s your name and number? Non-issue in sharing it, right? If you don’t wish to share that data with us, then congrats, you’ve illustrated why this is an issue. Whatever the reason you don’t want to publish your name and number here on the internet, is the same reason others don’t want theirs published.sflocal said:Like most people's phone numbers aren't already out there on the Internet for every phone scammer to use anyways?
This is a non-issue.He probably won't answer, or will have some kind of snarky response instead of actually addressing the issue. People don't like being told that their thinking is incongruous.Many people say they don't care about privacy because they have nothing to hide, and yet I still haven't had anyone take me up when I ask them to let me thumb through all their texts on their phone. And I'm virtually harmless, I have no power to retain that information forever and to correlate it with all kinds of other data and communications and purchases and locations, share it with other companies (in some cases), share with government requests, get hacked, etc.If you have any thoughts on my question above, feel free to respond. It's not an easy topic to discuss, and most people simply don't want to deal with messy, inconvenient things. But I think it needs to have more discussion. -
Phone numbers of nearly 420M Facebook users exposed online
Unfortunately, this is the way a lot of tools work, even Signal. Signal has great technical merits, its encryption is great, but because it requires you to be in your friends' contact lists, that's a huge glaring data privacy flaw. Other "private" communication tools like Viber require the same thing.cpsro said:Whatsapp is owned by FB and will do nothing for a user without full access to contacts.Android users gave permission to access contacts by merely downloading the app. iOS users had to give explicit permission, which millions did. While you might have denied Whatsapp access, it's very likely one of your friends or relatives authorized access and gave FB your information.So how can this very fundamental (societal) problem be fixed? People are lazy, and they don't want to deal with having multiple contact lists or even just simply not sharing their contact lists with various services. Like facebook, for one terrible example.I simply ask people to NOT put my personal information into their contact lists. Unfortunately, in the broken world that we live in right now, that sometimes has social ramifications, ranging from questioning looks and an explanation (sometimes helpful) to what amounts to okay-then-I-don't-want-to-be-your-friend. It also means hoping that your friends are not only honest about it, but diligent about it, and don't forget 2 years later.It's not just phone numbers that are being divulged, it's all the personal data people enter in their contacts app, like birthdays, home and work addresses, emails, work title and other information, personal relationships ("wife", "uncle", etc), and notes. Oh, the dreaded "notes" field. We have no idea what kind of notes our friends might jot down about us, and then share with online services like facebook or google or any number of others. Simply because it feels like they're just adding it to their personal contacts list.Again, this isn't to complain, it's a serious question that I've asked before. How can we fix this problem? Or at least mitigate the damage? I'm hoping that you care at least somewhat, because you mentioned it. I guess I could be wrong on that part.
