The matrix movie has people "jacked" into a kind of computer world through their brainstem but realistically the system would also have to have connections to the eyes which have the highest bandwidth of the system. Replacing reality with computers this way does not preclude it from being an interesting film but the love scenes would be different. Wouldn't the people in zion have to mount web cams or something on those sockets? People would fight over having the best kind of 300 year old web cams. Oh sure perhaps VR goggles would work well enough that you don't need your eye's gouged out. But in 10 years how will your eye's know what to focus on? Would your 20/20 vision last this way from cradle to grave?
Of all senses to rely on sight can be the most misleading though. Seeing is believing but seeing is deceiving. Think back to a time when you were totally sold on something by a commercial on TV or on youtube. It was so cool, it did exactly what I want it to do. This retail therapy is what I need, man! Then after you get it, its just a stupid gimmick or it helps nothing. The eye's brought you there. Cooking tools or ingredients are a good example. You can't taste test the television ads. Seeing fancy cars and mansions looks like a pretty good motivation for investing in a hit meme like crypto. But sometimes now and then that doesn't work out.
Eyes are good to have. I sometimes use them when driving my car. They are useful for tracking street names for my cerebral navigation system [CNS].
I think I like my ears better though. They are more reliable for me. And the nose is great. I don't think I'll need a corrective nose for a long time. I've worn corrective lenses for over 3 decades.
I like my flip phone in that it has basically what I need. I love having a pocket watch with timer at all times. The notes thing is great for remembering people's names by writing them down. I'm less likely to text something I'll regret because it is so hard to text. It truely is a dumb phone even though it has a browser because they didn't debounce most of the switches. The camera is pretty good too. The google app always takes a picture when I open it.
> I'm less likely to text something I'll regret because it is so hard to text.
Heh. I picked up a feature phone about 8 years ago and used it a lot. At first, I thought that the only way to enter text was one letter at a time, multiple keypresses, you know, 4-4-4, 7-7, 3-3-3, etc.
And then I discovered T9 input mode, and I was off to the races. I got in an SMS-argument with a colleague and I was sending multi-line rants thanks to T9. I was soon sorry that I ever figured that out.
The feature phone was really nice, though; it ran KaiOS, and it was theoretically integrated with Google services, such as Calendar, Contacts, and Gmail. The integration was extraordinarily poor, though, especially once MFA was enabled on the account, and I quit using the integrations, which was especially painful with a Calendar which was now blank and never reminded me of anything while I was out and about.
The web browser was super and I loved the ability to just go on the web and see a page. That is the point where I discovered weather.gov is the best weather forecast site ever, because that was the only site that worked with the mobile browser without spamming ads all over the page.
Those bribes are depressingly low amounts. Just fly a SCOTUS out for a fun quarter-million vacation and their next completely original interpretation of the Constitution will be in your favor.
The Navajo lost their water rights this week to a 5:4 supreme court decision over turning a lower court. I wonder who paid for that. How much does it cost to over turn a century old treaty?
Just to warn, social engineering attacks can get sims transfered without your involvement. There were some stories about it here somewhere a very long time ago.
Yes, I know - my method isn't perfect. But at the same time I don't want to rely on some "irreversible" purely technical solutions to the complex problem of (human) authentication.
Two factor authetication is dumb. It invites poor disipline with reusing passwords and with 500 pound gorilla corps, losing your second factor is losing your account permanently.
Yup — and the standard phone authenticator app pretty much guarantees you'll lose your second factor one day, unless you always upgrade your phone before it breaks.
- Alice is currently reusing passwords, and does not use 2FA. Alice decides to set up 2FA, but keeps reusing passwords. Not ideal, but net improvement.
- Bob is using a password manager, but does not use 2FA. Bob decides to set up 2FA, and sticks to using the password manager for storing password. All good!
- Charlie is using a password manager, but does not use 2FA. Charlie decides to set up 2FA, and afterwards drops the password manager, and starts reusing passwords. Not good.
My guess is the Alice and Bob cases would be the majority. Do you think the Charlie cases would also be common?
None of this is true. It doesn't encourage password reuse but it does protect against it. I've also never found a single site that wouldn't let me reset MFA, even if the support process was painful and slow.
FWIW, password reuse with MFA is not actually that much of a problem any more. Neither is rotation (which was show to be a net negative). There's a whole set of NIST guidelines on the topic.
> I've also never found a single site that wouldn't let me reset MFA, even if the support process was painful and slow.
It's pretty common to read about people fully losing access to their Google accounts and often only regaining it by using internal contacts at the company (or being shit out of luck). I don't think even supporters of 2FA can discount how difficult (or impossible) it can be to regain access to 2FA accounts for certain providers.
It's especially surprising considering those congressmen should in theory have exactly 0 power over anything in the country where this lawsuit is taking place.
But honestly, Apple has bitten a bitter fruit on this one; there's no way they'll win this.
Well, they look like bunch of arrogant clueless idiots to whole world (I am seeing this story in various tabloids across Europe), if that was their mission then congrats to success.
It will also alienate non-trivial part of Swiss population, who are (rightly) patriotic to everything Swiss-made or grown. Few millions of direct losses in one of the wealthiest (albeit small) markets globally.
Is somebody from brexit team, ie Boris Johnson employed as consultant on this brilliantly executed move?
You are being slightly US centric there - while what you say may be true in the US - I don't think congressmen have much influence in the Swiss Courts.
Of all senses to rely on sight can be the most misleading though. Seeing is believing but seeing is deceiving. Think back to a time when you were totally sold on something by a commercial on TV or on youtube. It was so cool, it did exactly what I want it to do. This retail therapy is what I need, man! Then after you get it, its just a stupid gimmick or it helps nothing. The eye's brought you there. Cooking tools or ingredients are a good example. You can't taste test the television ads. Seeing fancy cars and mansions looks like a pretty good motivation for investing in a hit meme like crypto. But sometimes now and then that doesn't work out.
Eyes are good to have. I sometimes use them when driving my car. They are useful for tracking street names for my cerebral navigation system [CNS].
I think I like my ears better though. They are more reliable for me. And the nose is great. I don't think I'll need a corrective nose for a long time. I've worn corrective lenses for over 3 decades.