It really means nothing. What does the 99.98% "accuracy" even refer to? For all we know, it could be the true negative rate (e.g. it correctly detects who is NOT a shoplifter 99.98% of the time).

At minimum, you need a "confusion matrix", you need False Positive, True Positive, False Negative, True Negative, to have a minimum of information to evaluate any prediction system.

You misunderstand what he is saying (BTW, "yourself" is 1 word).

The article states that *any* bluetooth item can be tracked using their network, by pretending to be an Airtag.
While Apple obviously only has functionality to track Airtags, not any bluetooth item.
Therefore, malcreants have more power & functionality than actual users.

Which decently secure OS are you thinking about? Linux also gets malware ...
Either OS are tiny and practically irrelevant (e.g. Redox OS), or big and therefore vulnerable.
The in-betweens like FreeBSD are just not popular enough to warrant lots of malware, but that doesn't prove that they are secure.

If most corporate (human-facing) devices ran MacOS or some BSD, there would also be magnitudes more malware for them.

Swiss banks used to have banking secrecy. It went so far as that you could have an account, with no registered owner.
(This is why in movies, the banker is often Swiss, or the characters go to Switzerland to hide / launder money).
The US didn't like this and threatened to put Switzerland on the list of tax havens, impose sanctions and blacklist it from certain international systems.
The Swiss held a vote (it's a direct democracy), and they decided that it's better not to slight the US, so they got rid of banking secrecy.

Today, there is no advantage whatsoever in having money in Swiss banks. Although most people still don't know this and the general public continues to think that Switzerland is a tax haven.

Hi Baldrson,

I find that very interesting. It's a different take on epistemology & philosophy of science.
It's the first time I read about this.
Are there other interesting reference works in this line of thinking?

Look at it from a 'per capita' point of view, just as most other dollar metrics usually do. Then Saudi Arabia spends much more. The US spends the same as Israel, Singapore and Kuwait.

Russia invaded Georgia and Ukraine not long ago. Turkey is preparing to invade Syria as we speak. Israel invades Gaza from time to time and has invaded Lebanon. Pakistan invaded India. Several african nations have invaded their neighbours. And we're not even speaking about softer influencing as done by Saudi Arabia, China (lots of political fallout for companies supporting Hong Kong protests), etc.

Do you have more information on this? What where the names of the banned holdings? What do you think was the influence of the EU in this? Did they in any way take the traditional military wing out of the game?

Could you elaborate on that? How can the EU impede the Turkish military in any way??? I don't understand? And why would the EU press for a sharia government? I'm thankful if you could outline this situation.

Imagine listening in to the CEO of a Fortune500 company in the days preceding financial reports. You may gain very valuable information. As we saw last week, it is not considered insider trading if you hacked your way to the data. Also competing firms could use this to be one step ahead, and potentially can ruin another firm.