YouTube's inline videos is what did it for me.

Nothing spoils a good playlist like a frickin Toyota ad before each video.

...so long as invasive and immoral ads exist.

That is a sub-set of all ads, by the way, not all ads by any stretch.

Nice amp setup, but don't you have a CD player yet?

Never mind - I found it myself. Short answer: either jailbreak the phone or give them your victim's iCloud credentials so they can trawl the backup files.

Say I want to spy on my kid. (I don't, but work with me here.) How would that software work? Short of jailbreaking the phone, I can't imagine what iPhone spyware would look like. Would said kid have a Spy On Me app that she'd need to run from time to time? Even keyboard replacement apps are somewhat vetted in what information they send to their vendors, and I don't think they have access to photos, email, or anything else but the keyboard.

I'm not convinced.

A lot of people I know who grew up in the 80s and 90s prefer music from the early 70s. I suspect that social pressure may be coming into play there.

Wait, TPS reports are a thing? I thought they were made up for the cubicle farm classic Office Space.

Security, in electronic voting, seems too hard a problem to solve right now.

That is why, until it is no longer too hard to solve, you DON"T DO ELECTRONIC VOTING.

Simple.

Interesting to note also that the tests were conducted by Michael Martin, president of âZPresident of the Global Polygraph Network, an advocacy group so far as I can tell.

OK, I can go along with that. But I've happened across a few current die-hards, and I lump them in with Blackberry users and "the South will rise again!".

Son, it's about time we had a talk.

*shakes head sadly* how I wish that were so. It's exactly people like you who deny there is even a problem, that allow this sort of thing to happen.

Troll level: Awesome

I think you'll find the prevailing attitude is "avoid useless technology".

Granted there is a certain level of geek cred for connecting something to the net that has never been connected before, but at a practical level I have absolutely no need for my television, kettle or frickin light bulbs to be Internet connected.

Now that it is well established that 1) Governments want to spy on you and 2) Companies want to spy on you, I would expect that you, a reasonably seasoned Slashdotter, would see the folly in a novelty convenience against massive security implications.