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  • Remembering the durable ceramic Apple Watch Edition, now dropped from Apple's lineup

    focherfocher
    My wife has a Series 3 Edition. It's really beautiful.
    racerhomie3StrangeDays

  • Apple looking to deploy 1Password company-wide, company buy-out denied [u]

    focherfocher
    I was a 1Password user a long time ago. Dropped it when they started storing the passwords in the cloud. It may not be as convenient as it's not shared among all devices, but I preferred having my passwords physically on my hard drive. Call me paranoid.

    Bad news for you. Pretty much ALL your passwords are stored in the cloud ... by the services themselves. Just saying.
    netmageStrangeDays

  • How to delete the 'mshelper' malware from macOS

    focherfocher
    Malware is almost never a virus. Malware is just a software application that does nefarious things, and it's almost always user installed - directly or indirectly.

    No operating system can truly prevent malware, because it would have to essentially never allow applications to run. There are whitelisting solutions that are configured to ensure only authorized applications run. MacOS currently uses a combination of partial-whitelisting through Gatekeeper and blacklisting through the built in XProtect software in MacOS since 10.6. This allows Apple to blacklist applications, and it periodically pushes out updates to this list which is stored at /System/Library/Core Services/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.plist
    jasenj1

  • Florida police attempt to use dead man's finger to unlock his smartphone

    focherfocher
    There no legal question here. The right to privacy has been clearly established as ending at death.

    Of course, the real story is cops shooting yet another black person for fleeing. I'm not sure when it happened, but too many people just accept the use of deadly force against a fleeing suspect for a non-violent crime.
    StrangeDayshcrefugeeronncornchip

  • Mark Zuckerberg calls Tim Cook's anti-Facebook retort 'glib,' defends ad-based model

    focherfocher
    Facebook is a non-profit? Hard to not call Zuck's statement glib, when he implies that they only advertise to provide the service for free to people who cannot afford it. Where do the billions in profit go?

    I'm with Cook. Facebook's business model isn't just an ad supported one. The whole purpose of Facebook's existence is to collect data and monetize that data. The "getting connected with friends and family" is just the loss leader to achieve that end.  
    ronndewmebaconstangwatto_cobra