I'm sorry, I don't buy this story from the police agencies that these guys didn't have permission. If you can log into a system, then you have permission to access that system. That's the whole point of the login process: to determine who can authenticate and authorize usage of a system.

If police agencies wanted to remove permission, then they should have blocked their former users' credentials from accessing the system. This nonsense argument shifts the blame from the agencies mismanaging their users to the individual users who should have been disabled and not allowed to access this information in the first place!

This part of the story seems intended to excuse the sloppy security of police agencies.

What do you mean? He seems hell-bent on having his name immediately above Kennedy's...

Can you imagine riding to the moon on a Russian spacecraft? Your blood pressure would be through the roof the entire time (and that's a best case scenario).

And pay everyone $5K! ... if his side, the side of fiscal responsibility*, wins.

*hey I actually managed to type that with a straight face

They're announcing now because they want to at least get a first round of that sweet, sweet investor (and probably government) cash coming their way ASAP! Who knows if they'll still have a "money is no object" buyer in a couple years?

My Samsung TV is a couple years old, but it has the option of defaulting to the last known input - bypassing their launch screen completely. If you use an external device like an Apple TV or Roku, you'll pretty much never have to see the Samsung screen again.

Of course with UTF one can come up with fake sites whose URLs are visually indistinguishable from the real site.

That's one nice thing about a password manager (if the site in question requires authentication)... it doesn't fall for that.

I live in a semi-rural area, which may be why I get good (non-oversubscribed) Comcast service right now. My wife is from a small farming area in northeastern Washington state - even they have had (non-Comcast) cable internet available for 15-20 years.

I'm sure there are places where Starlink was the first non-dialup internet available, but I suspect the list is smaller than you believe it is.

If that's what they're trying to do, they're doing a piss-poor job of it!

I get measured speeds of 2.4G down, 300M up from Comcast for $80 a month. I have to say that works fine for me, even on my remote work days.

No $40 monthly deals have shown up here...

When I last looked at Starlink, they were charging more than Comcast.

Translation: The money is given to the politicians.

During the most recent Patch Tuesday, Microsoft provided 1411 counterarguments to your statement.

I now am dependent in part for my livelihood on paypal. Going to check my contact info there now.

https://informationr.us/

I'll never forget the Y2K crisis.