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Has there ever been an example of someone's device being hacked in a way that allowed the hacker to access their banking app directly? I don't recall any, and both Android and iOS was pretty well locked down when it comes to accessing app data, or controlling the device remotely. It was actually controversial when introduced on Android, as it messed with a lot of accessibility apps like screen readers.

The far more likely route into your bank account is by SIM cloning or compromising your email account. The bank's computers are also online and hackable 24/7. Those are things that actually happen.

Japan doesn't really do cheques anymore. Like most developed countries, they have been phased out.

Many people have already been relying on a phone for day-to-day life for decades anyway. Japan was an early adopter of keita-saifu, basically a stored value card replacement that was initially for public transport, but now used for all sorts of purchases. If you loose the card or your phone, you lose the money that was on it too.

This is a country that still uses fax machines. It's not something that has been rushed into.

Android has an auto-backup feature that makes this sort of thing easy. If you buy a new phone, even if you lost the old one, once you log into your Google account it will restore the apps you had installed from Play, and crucially the core data such as login details. It will also save login details to the Google password manager. So logging back in to banking apps is generally straightforward.

If you don't have a Google account or turned backup off, you need to back that data up yourself. There are lots of open source backup apps for Android, although they require root to save app data, and I think Graphene OS has one built in.

For medical products they need alarms for both minimum and maximum temperatures, and they need a record showing that they never exceeded the limits. So some logging at a minimum, which has to be available on demand and the data stored long term.

It's possible to do entirely offline, but it's extra work and an extra point of failure because if the person in charge of it goes sick and their temporary replacement doesn't cover it, resulting in a gap in the data, a lot of material has to be discarded. Not just blood, also medications, organs for transplant, samples, all sorts of stuff.

"Just keep it offline" is not a solution to all the problems they have.

He hasn't tweeted for 9 hours. Something is definitely up with him.

Oh sure, they are also massive fucking morons. Deporting their friends and neighbours was supposed to feel empowering though.

They aren't going to do anything to Trump. Even now he can still issue executive orders and vetoes, so they will some of the stuff they want. That's all they care about.

I suspect a lot of them knew he was lying, but the Democrats are so fucking useless that they just wanted to blow the whole thing up in the hope of something better emerging at the end.

We have seen some actual left wing candidates doing well lately, but I doubt any of them will be able to push the Democratic Party towards the centre.

Well that's the point, isn't it? They should be impartial and non-political.

I don't know what you mean by this, but let's just review.

First Obama had an SC pick, but the Republicans refused to hold hearings and he didn't force the issue, so you got another conservative. Then Trump selected two more who he thought would be loyal, and rammed through their confirmations despite serious issues with them.

Democrats seem to be unwilling to use those tactics, and okay they shouldn't be normalized. But also women have lost their bodily autonomy and that's a pretty serious problem. Even if you don't care about that, the fact that the system for selecting SC justices has been shown to be extremely lacking should be a concern.

Hopefully this is the US pulling back from the brink, but I'm not going to celebrate just yet.

The drives are very expensive and kind of shitty. I wish someone made cheaper LTO-8 drives, and that they were more robust and didn't cost so much to service. You can't get parts for them either, which would make repairs a lot cheaper.

I read that Huawei were coming out with their own tape format a few years ago, but it doesn't seem to have reached us.

What is the use case? Neither ZDNet nor Mozilla seem to know.

Watching videos while browsing another site? I think I'd rather use my phone as a second screen if I'm going to do that.

A few hours ago he tweeted (or whatever you call it on Truth Social) a picture of a red cap with the word "veto" on it, so yeah... That's clearly his plan.