Stop naming exploits! KRACK is idiotic. I wish heartbleed and shellshock had not been as nameable and chic.

I'm not a fan of the government pressuring companies to do things. But in this case, Twitter does not seem to be "complying with USG desires." Despite the message or the actual groups behind any campaign, they abused Twitter and violated the TOS. It certainly looks shady. However, if you appropriately weigh both sides, twitter isn't acting outside of the scope of their TOS and how they have chosen to enforce it.

I am interested to see how this pans out.

It is strange (and somewhat sad) when a company takes a category from the Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon and actually runs with it.

don't buy it. Yeah, the chance that enough people will refuse to buy the device due to privacy invasion feature X or Y will stop them. But you have done as much as you can in the situation. Perhaps switch to another phone that doesn't have a similar feature... hmm, I'm sure someone can suggest a modern phone without this feature. Or at least one that doesn't force you to use the face unlock...unlike the iphone. Or rather, just use this phone and set it up exactly like the Android!

Turn off facelock and be done with it. Or switch and stop bitching. Everyone wanted competition. Now, no one wants to make use of it.

Even worse, my previous bank maxed passwords out at eight chars. But instead of telling you this when registering or changing passwords, the interface simply made the input field a fixed width at eight em and fixed input length at eight. I only realized this was the case while seriously fat fingering the last few characters and enter, but still logged right in.

I just bought Mavis Beacon :(

I will be re-upgrading to an iPhone SE!

So far, I'm 1 for 1 in the game of outwaiting apple wrt smaller phone sizes. I got nothing but time.

I wonder how CNN will figure out how to beat the block this time. I'm just glad whoever runs code and features for the "unrelated videos" overlay on CNN's site is using his or her power for not as evil as he could be.

Seeing as they will be held accountable for an incident like that by so many orgs (not to mention GDPR...because I already have a headache), I think they will have pretty serious logic flow review and analysis before it hits production.

Credit Karma has always been very forthright with how they sustain the site. In plain language, and usually, before content, during, and random browsing. Of course it is another "we are the product, not the..blah tinfoil blah," but it is one of the best examples of the model working "best"

But people won't care, use them anyway, the bitch and moan.

Related/Unrelated, the best "identity protection service" I have used is MyIdCare. Full disclosure, the first few years were free (thanks OPM), but the amount of information they monitor, and how quickly they get a notification to you (vice your email inbox), is surprisingly fast.

I'm glad no one ever oversells a story with a catchy headline...

"...well, if I've sacrificed enough goats and or what not, this demo will work..."

Yes a hobby project vs. Apple Flagship Project [blah] are different, but this is just boring. At least when Gates BSOD'd, it was the laugh of the day, and not trying to be taken as an accurate representation of every person and product in the company.

Did slashdot just link to an article posted on slashdot itself as a story?

I'm not falling for it. I don't read the articles. Did you think having the articles read themselves to me would work any better?

What about: I'm looping into [Station Name] around 1600?