Is there anything preventing someone from developing a browser that "randomizes" the data which is read from tracking components? Something like keeping cookies active, but randomly showing/hiding cookies...perhaps having a set of browser-provided cookies in the mix that randomly provide false information. The browser itself would keep accurate track of stuff like browsing history, but sites that read that history would get a list of different sites, ones the user never even visited. Is that even possible, and would it work to fool trackers?

It doesn't have to be. We can watch TV absolutely free with an over-the-air antenna. Most of us choose to have more programming options and buy cable or satellite.

I know you have the TV License over in the UK. Is that per screen or house? Some cable companies may serve multiple screens up to a point for no extra charge, and usually extra sets are at a greatly reduced rate.

What's being measured? Screens or pairs of eyeballs? There's potentially a big difference between 4 people watching a single screen for an hour. Is that 1 hour or 4?

But also, 'may' can be interpreted as 'giving permission' as in 'YOU may record this for monitoring purposes'. One could argue this gives you permission to record the calls yourself.

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Sure. These companies take a stand against assisting governments in cyber attacks, but do nothing to protect citizens from the constant intrusion and surveillance in our personal lives and privacy. Personal privacy really needs to be considered a basic human right.

"Many phones repaired by third parties are ticking timebombs; it's impossible for anyone to know if or when Apple will do something that breaks devices fixed with aftermarket parts. And every time a software update breaks repaired phones, Apple can say that third-party repair isn't safe, and the third-party repair world has to scramble for workarounds and fixes."

This statement is applicable to pretty much any company out there with technological products, not just Apple.

If you had an iPhone, you could identify Dawn as your wife in Contacts and avoid needing to use "Dawn" altogether. You could then just say "Hey Siri, call my wife."

As a bonus, you have a completely optimized drive, and all those 0's are now freed-up empty space. Optimization and compression!

Which one, there are what appears to be a dozen books with that name on Amazon.

They have. It's called a Lightning connector.

I'm worried that we've passed that point of having the expectation of new home builds having ethernet built in. I'll bet most home builders now are thinking that, with everyone using wi-fi, why bother with hard lines.

From what I read on the Palo Alto site, the ransomware is still under development and looks like it will eventually encrypt TIme Machine, but that functionality is not active in this round.

I'm really curious what made me "immune." I updated Transmission last Thursday or Friday to the version supposedly infected. I learned about the malware Sunday and immediately checked for the reported signs of an infected computer, of which I had none. I immediately upgraded to the clean version and as of last night, my Mac mini is still clean.