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Post by nagrani on Aug 24, 2014 19:58:16 GMT -8
If apple is up tomorrow as i suspect it will be - I'm going to enter a short term short position in apple. 9 days in a row is a long winning streak.
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Mav
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Post by Mav on Aug 24, 2014 20:05:34 GMT -8
Android phones get hit by "ransomware". Scary....... daringfireball.net/linked/2014/08/24/ransomware"You are guilty of child porn, child abuse, zoophilia or sending out bulk spam. You are a criminal. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has locked you out of your phone and the only way to regain access to all your data is to pay a few hundred dollars. That message — or variations of it — has popped up on hundreds of thousands of people’s Android devices in just the last month. The message claims to be from the F.B.I., or cybersecurity firms, but is in fact the work of Eastern European hackers who are hijacking Android devices with a particularly pernicious form of malware, dubbed “ransomware” because it holds its victims’ devices hostage until they pay a ransom." "Security through obscurity" (backed by a strong security framework) suddenly doesn't sound so bad. The other 80% or whoever of smartphone vendors really should learn from Microsoft's mistakes. Oh wait, many of them don't really support the underlying OS. Y'know, that walled garden is pretty OK overall
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Post by JDSoCal on Aug 24, 2014 20:08:48 GMT -8
Went to the verizon store to pay my phone bill and was surprised to see they had a free android workshop in progress. There were 6 people all over the age of 60 trying to learn how to write and send an email on their new phones. Does Verizon offer classes in how to pay one's phone bill online?
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