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Comment Re:A Niche Device on a Great Update Cycle (Score 1) 20

No one is forcing you to upgrade your iPad every 2-3 years just like no one is forcing you to upgrade your iPhone every year. Some people want to upgrade; that is their choice. For some people, they need an additional iPad for their children/spouse etc. For some, their iPad met an unfortunate end. For most of us, we upgrade if and when we need.

Comment Re:Fuck These Tests! (Score 1) 82

These gotcha games suck, but they're necessary. And it's not just email, it's phone calls, it's social engineering, it's fake paper invoices, it's fake AI voices, it's deep fake live videos, etc.

And yes, automate your defenses, automate as much as possible, but that's not enough. Every day, there is a new scam out there, or a new vector of attack, that automation doesn't take into account yet. It's a never-ending list of problems that requires never-ending education.

And yes, let's not make fun of people, but let's assume that people are going to make mistakes (even after having been trained), so let's continue to do penetration testing (in addition to all the other precautions we take and all the defensive automation we create).

Comment Re:Banning hosts? (Score 1) 132

Yes, enforcement can take place *after* a police report has been made. Because if a crime has been committed, there is a process to follow and there is a criminal to catch.

After all, if a hidden camera is found, it could have been planted there by a host, or by an employee, or by a contractor, or by a previous guest, or may be the camera could have been planted by someone trying to make a fake allegation (for instance a local competitor, or a guest who's trying to extort the host)

Who knows? It's the same thing with hotels. Hotel rooms have been found with hidden cameras in them also. If you find a hidden camera in your hotel room, you do not contact their headquarters first, you do not tell the front desk first, you contact the police first! The police can secure the evidence. The police can record what happened. The police can even try to catch the perpetrator.

Comment Re: "Fun" fact (Score 2) 137

The only truly unique thing associated with Musk is Starship. That piece of tech is important for our species and everyone else is a solid 20 years behind.

"Important for our species" ... how? Trust me, our species ain't going anywhere. There's nowhere to go.

Comment Re:Synergy (Score 2) 137

if you look at his track record with DOGE, then you can see his diktats can easily go awry. He walked away from the Fed. Gov. after he screwed it up, he won't be able to walk away from GonzoWhopper Elmo, Inc.

Screwing up the federal government, which was conducting multiple investigations into his companies and himself personally, was exactly his goal. He destroyed the agencies that were trying to regulate him, and investigate him. Being able to steal everyone's data was just a nice side effect to him. Being able to kill funding that was helping to keep hundreds of thousands of African children alive was his way of giving a giant FU to them.

Comment Re: You cannot destroy data, harmless or not ... (Score 4, Insightful) 330

No part of your statements says that DHS obtained a warrant to search and seize his phone. This where DHS is using SchrÃdinger's reasoning: According to DHS, they do not need a warrant because the search was "random" and he was not under any investigation. Yet they told Customs to look for certain things because he was under investigation and he was targeted for a search at the border. It turns out they lied and the search was not random. Such a search requires a warrant. Therefore the search was illegal.

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