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The new snowflake card from Apple. Remember to store it in a safe space.

MOD PARENT UP!!! lol so true

I never really thought about it before, but "robust caller ID authentication" is all of a sudden striking me as an authoritarian choke point that *could* be used to prevent the politically disfavoured from communicating. I get a lot of spam calls so it's annoying. But is that the right solution?

someone please tag this as 'advertisement'

I guess we can add "uncontrollable propaganda outlet" to the litany of reasons why everyone should either disconnect entirely or drastically reduce social media consumption.

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kind of pushing the edge of what makes a story 'round here.

...but they do grind.

No smart tv's in my house, no echo or google home either.

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Using feedly now that the original Google reader is gone. We need a slashdot poll asking this question

ransomware absolutely sucks.

That being said, the statement "The idea of needing a new law to make a form of hacking illegal may seem counterintuitive, " seems a bit loaded. I'm not sure if all hacking should automatically be assumed to be illegal. Would this even be hacking or are we to assume 'everything nefarious done via computer is hacking'.

TFA, that is

LOL, too much of a sports analogy for this crowd. TFO is entertaining, but not nearly as much as the confusion in this discussion thread :)