You all, are correct: There's no point having Passkeys if they can be copied from disk to disk, that's repeating the problems with passwords but as a digital file. Which is why the term "credential" appears. Passkeys can move only from one approved application to another. At the moment, that means 'via the cloud'. So it all depends on online security. An average user probably hasn't enabled TOTP/"Yubi-key" verification, which makes the system, slightly vulnerable: See below.

The parallel is obvious; At the moment, 99% of password managers do backup-to-cloud, so people don't lose their passwords when they lose their phone. It's sensible that Passkeys have the same protection. But how does one verify that, this is my Passkey backup, when one has lost the Passkey/phone to the cloud filesystem?

Informing a woman, her menstrual period is late, is a mixed blessing in some countries: The government would like to get its hands on that data, in order to enforce its religious in-sensibilities upon her. Women with an Apple watch need to worry how committed Apple is, to privacy: If the government demands such data is forwarded to the government, Apple will fold faster than a cheap suit.

During the War on Terror, US police were stealing iPhones and iPods from non-locals: Cruelty was the point and adding $100/month to police pay-packets incentivized police to commit more crimes. (Reduced to $50/month after the state government demanded a percentage.)

It incentivized other countries to write similar laws although a stronger legal system (and municipal government having fewer policing powers), meant other countries didn't suffer the daylight robbery that the US did.

It's sort of enshitification but really, it's holding people hostage with their own laziness. One can press the FF button and REW for an almost identical effect, it merely takes some attention to what Tivo is doing.

Once the answer becomes "more surveillance", everyone becomes the enemy and the answer to every problem is more cameras and more tracking. The surveillance, literally, never ends. This story is more surveillance working as intended, with police conspiring to deprive citizens of their freedom, their 'anonymity' and their right to protest.

In the 1980s, the CIA claimed their space satellites could perform sub-millimetre resolution at ground level: That was counter-intelligence to hide the the low-flying spy planes and agents on the ground. Even now, a car is a blurry dot on a satellite's camera's photo.

Flock cameras frequently can't read a license plate, causing incorrect data to enter the surveillance system: Several times, it's matched an incident report on the police database and triggered an armed response from police. The incorrect data isn't deleted causing law-abiding people to be attacked by police, more than once.

What's this fascination with optical surveillance? The police know you're committing a crime and can plant 'informants' and other evidence to prove it: They don't need photos.

When he refused to obey the law, when he re-purposed the US DoJ and ICE to attack people he didn't like.

"... publicity event ..."

Meaning: City ponders spending millions to help a corporation sell more merchandise.

Miami-Dade thinks they can profit from a GTA VI feeding frenzy scheduled to occur in a few months. I'm guessing they haven't written a business plan or expense-revenue analysis for this family-budget spectacle. Disney discovered they can't charge premium fees for their "Star Wars" experience. I suspect the do-it-yourself experience that Miami-Dade is suggesting, will not be the popular tourist attraction the city wants.

Correction: The right is using [negative campaign ads], why aren't we telling the truth?

The Democratic Party is also in this dilemma, although hiring right-wing ad-men is a big part of the cause. Since adverts depend on puffery, manipulating assumptions and blatant dishonesty, ad-men prefer the political party that imitates them, the most.

The Republican Party and Fox News have the misinformation and defamation down to a precise art, they don't need expensive AI to make their propaganda machine work.

As the article implies, US voters respond to trigger words like; "communist", "conscientious objector", "war hero", "gun rights", "small government', "states' rights", "think of the children", "illegal immigrants", "national deficit", "job security", "tough on crime", "welfare queens" and "cares". They don't ask what the party's policy will support or change. Trump 45 used personalized messages to suggest GOP policies aligned with the voter's interests.

- Health care and aged care are labour-intensive jobs: Looking after old, rich people becomes more difficult even as the manufacturing/education/other services workforce shrinks from reduced demand and increased automation
- Social Security in many countries does not have a large cash reserve, meaning future expenses becomes bigger than current revenues. Fewer people working means less social security for old people.
- Fewer people working means less money for governments that get most of their revenue from wages
- As the elderly die, there will be less pressure on the supply of manufacturing/services, food resources, housing resources and debt/loan resources because of reduced demand and a smaller population inheriting high-value assets (buildings, investment funds). It will be an end to the scarcity that has defined government policy for 1,000 years.

If governments don't move away from a wage-driven taxation system, and education/healthcare/welfare systems demanding part-time employment, they will be an oppressive expense to the working class, will incite civil unrest and revolution and be slaughtered by the people they failed to serve.

You think this will force US corporations into a long-term responsibility for vehicle manufacturing? The Hunger Games was correct: Laws written by man can be unwritten by man. In answer: No, manufacturers will sit on their arse until the protectionism is about to expire, then complain it's not a level playing field (Sound familiar?), so politicians change the law, or an "important" US goodwill and export good disappears, and thousands lose their job.

On a global stage, it's no different to the Japanese before them, and the Americans before that. The USA doesn't like it happening to them because lower profits and their corporations can't treat customers as serfs.

US "Libertarian" ideology isn't based on rationalism and the common good, it's a simple "fuck you, I got mine" pretending that "small government" and "individual rights" are the answer to US corruption and winner-take-all capitalism.

TL;DR: "Libertarian" means "arsehole".

Buy a car where there are no mechanical linkages from the 'passenger' to vehicle control systems: Everything is a touch-screen element totally at the mercy of a corporation. What could go wrong?

The problem is, the government would have to spend money replacing all the polluting technology (Namely, power generation, and making all equipment, electric.) and that meant more taxes, plus people having to replace their own technology (Eg. ICE cars, gas stoves). The result would be massive debt and a massive shift in manufacturing and employee skill-sets. Thus, the priority became 'protecting' jobs, fuck the environment. Even when there was consensus that something needed to be done (Kyoto Protocol), the USA ignored the rules and everyone else, happily agreed.

While there are disasters across the planet, it's fitting that the USA is ravaged by pestilence and plagues caused by insects and diseases moving into the warmer USA.

A do-not-call blacklist isn't working because many it allows many exceptions. A 'white-list' of names, such as the names of registered corporations, is far more useful.

If a phone number makes many calls and isn't linked to a business name or registered corporation, my phone provider labels the incoming call, "suspected scam".