This whole things seems to boil down to "we didn't sign our update packages and don't want to look stupid"

Thankfully we didn't get hit by the issue, but we are looking at alternatives.

I'm part of the IT department where I work and I can tell you this, they wouldn't do it if it didn't work.
There are a few companies out there selling security training that includes phishing tests. We decided to run a trial run to get an idea of the landscape.

The results were far worse then what we imagined, with the worse being an employee that replied to one of the emails with his SIN number!

Needless to say, we got approval to roll it out on a permanent basis. We have regular tests, a button that users can use to report suspicious emails and also run out one time tests. I'd much rather deal with an overly paranoid user that asks me to check if an email is suspicious first then with the fallout of a compromise. And if someone reports a phishing email that went through the filters, we can take action to delete similar emails from other user's mailboxes.

We know for a fact that the training prevented the CEO's email address from being taken over through an oauth authorization email (if I remember, it was some sort of password expiry reminder email). That email was sent to 5 other C level executive.

As for MFA, it isn't a cure to anything when it comes to phishing. Its trivial to add the MFA field to the page then to use it to compromise the real account. MFA fixes passwords being leaked, not people entering it on bad actor's pages.

Or what they really do is trading against their clients.

Probably there are some national security concerns of putting that kind of power on remove regions in the hands of US based companies. Same reason is used to justify why we don't have cheap cell service or a competitive airline industry...

I'll bet an old toonie that Telesat will turn around and subcontract with Star Link...

Counterpoint: I manage company wide IT, about 100 computers in all. Probably a total of 80 Lenovo laptops and desktops, a mix of whatever came out between now and 5 years. Always in the economy business lines and with non OEM upgrades. At most 4 hardware repairs across them over the years.

Since the earlier Lenovo debacle (that stupid wild card root certificate), its been SOP for us to just wipe the OEM install and start a fresh one from Microsoft media. We also do install and support Linux on request.

The worst are the Microsoft Surfaces. Frigging nightmares that can't handle the load of a Zoom meeting. Thankfully they have now all been retired (thank you COVID for that!!!).

There is a risk with every single medication.
The effects and side effects depends on the dose and the context.

Anti-malarial, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis are common use of that with a well established body of evidence to their various risks.

Usage with COVID patients came more because a few doctors thought they noticed something interesting. However, from my understanding of COVID, the inflammation issues is much more of a problem then the infection itself. Its quite possible that for most patients the chloroquine makes things worse overall then better.

The company where I work went 100% working from home just before the government announced the measures. I've been working my regular job since then and been staying at home. I'm part of the younger people with extra risk factors, so I'm getting everything delivered.

I'm also throwing as much resources as I can to folding at home. I've even rebuilt an older computer to bring up some older nvidia cards I had laying around and so far I'm at about 2 million points per day, when there are work units available. I'm also getting ready for when World community grid releases their open pandemic initiative.

I've been trying to convert a mining rig to folding at home, but the special 4 to 1 pcie port card doesn't seem to be compatible with the folding at home client.

They can't do that in Quebec, under such a situation, the consumer has a right for a refund. The period would be between the expected show date and before any make up date.

There is also a simple clause in the law that says that customers can't waive rights granted in the laws.

Working from home has been made the preferred way to work by my employer, with a strong emphasis on not coming to the offices unless you have to.

I'm already subscribed to a pre made meal diet plan, that isn't changing. For fruits, vegetables and other groceries, instead of fighting it out with people, I subscribed to a delivery service operated by a biggish farm in my area.

The plan is to stay home as much as possible. We're in the midst of renovations so there are some trips to the local big box reno store to wrap part of it up to get back most of a floor's worth of space in the house. We decided to keep pushing ahead as it was nearly done, and if one of us gets sick, we'll need the extra space.

For toilet paper, we already had most of a Costco pack, so we're good for a few months as it is. We ordered a bidet as a stop gap if needed, plus I've been thinking about trying it for health reasons.

No need to make it that complicated. We already know that carriers have no issues with selling location data to third parties. And who knows what every other app on the phone with the location permission does with the data. Even knowing which wifi hotspot is around is enough to locate someone on a map... Any number of data aggregators out there can get the data and mash up who is with who and where. There was already some news articles on how facebook display people who you may know just because you are near them, so the capability is already existing.

And for voice recognition, the number of big ticket items that someone in my socio economic status will get is fairly limited. Electronics, furniture, vacations, house, pool, car. I'm sure we'd be hard pressed to get a list of 200 words that would be good enough to target a big ticket ad. Wouldn't even need to be that precise, it could just show the ad to a few people around the listener. You just need a byte to know which word was spoken. With less words, you can even bitmask them. Hiding a byte on a cell phone data plan is easy. The other part is an approximate location of the target (user, not the user but near, friend of the user, etc)

The vocabulary list to check for being small would require a small program that is allowed to run in the background and record audio and use minimal data. There are already apps always listening (Google, Siri, etc). Amazon and others have shown that they are really listening all the time.

No, I was heavily being spammed SUV ads for almost a full month before that (I drive a Leaf so...). And it was during a period of time where facebook was managing to evade adblock plus, so the ads were particularly annoying and in my face...

Perhaps, on the other hand it was the first time I mentioned going to Europe in about 3 years to someone else...

No I did not search for Europe before the ads showed, and I only use my facebook account on desktop computers. With Firefox using the facebook container. I've gone through the trouble of disabling it from my phone, and also remove Bixby. I don't know if my friend searched for Europe, didn't think of asking at the time.

A few months ago I was on lunch with a friend and I mentioned how I'm thinking about going to Europe (and this was before I searched for flights etc) and magically 3h later all the shitty car ads on facebook became KLM ads...
My friend has the facebook app and uses it, I disabled mine on the phone when I got the phone earlier this year.
Way too spooky of a "coincidence"

If the coder sucks, the code will suck, no matter which language.

At least if you want to keep PHP up to date, the breaking changes are usually limited and well announced. Unlike some other stacks I had to deal with which are an endless treadmill of functions being renamed.