So tapes and vinyl can make a come back but DVD Audio and / or the SuperCD can't find a viable audience? Yeah, why would you want that song you like to be in 5.1 surround sound? Keep wondering why it sounded so good in the movie theater and so crappy back at home.

Exactly! And guess what? All of those things 1) require work to open and 2) come in versions that will destroy their contents if tampered with (or at least safes do). How is that different than a phone with a passcode? Should we make the passcode look like a combination lock so dummies will understand?

GPS location based on cell towers, actual sms messages, phone calls to and from the phone and probably a bunch of other stuff that the cellco is only too happy to provide. I'm sorry if the police can't do their job without accessing the users actual private data (such as game scores and alternate non-cell tower gps, and iMessages and app data) but there's nothing to suggest that the encrypted data would hold anything useful. not every murder is a Robert Ludlum plot.

I'm betting they weren't. I'm betting what happened is that the hospitals or the healthcare tech co. has weak ass verification measures when it comes to people resetting passwords. And so the hackers didn't do much hack anything as simply make a phone call or two and then walk right in the front door. No encryption to stop them. And since I that scenario they'd be using the ehr system directly that explains why there wasn't a loss of all data but rather a sort of "picking through" of data. The articles don't say how it was done. I'm betting it has nothing to do with cracking their ultra sophisticated hardware. If you haven't worked at a hospital in the IT dept then you have no idea the ease of which these places could be compromised. And the blame goes to several groups for not fostering the kind of ethos that puts a high value on security. The IT dept usually tries to do that but there's no one on the clinical side backing them up. So IT is secure, but clinical doesn't care and they're the ones who have access to all the records.

I like how he thinks his Facebook posts are safe from the PC humor police. You are in for a rude awakening if you ever test that theory, Mr. Breathed. The humor police at the newspaper syndicates might prevent your strip from being run, but they won't dox you and try to ruin your life because they're too stupid to realize they don't have a right to not be offended.