Lady cyclist killed in Davis involving juvenile on ebike...on the bike path.

[Catalyzt]

You want the security patches to avoid becoming part of a hacker's bot farm or having spyware and key loggers installed on your computer. New vulnerabilities are found every day.

So they say. But I don't hit sketchy websites or open sketchy emails, and so far have not had any problem. Some of my friends who update their browsers regularly have had their identities stolen many times. It's hard for me to wrap my head around. What is it that people are doing online that causes the issues? My guess is that it's mostly phishing, but I dunno.

I did have my credit/debit card get skimmed once at a gas station, but that was easily remedied. The bogus charges didn't go through, my card was disabled, sent a new one in a couple of days.

I don't use Venmo or Apple Pay or any of that crap either. I'm a health care provider, it's not safe for my business.

 

[PedalUma]

I put the laser in a frame-pump mount then shot it at a water bottle at my office. What is great is that if you accidently did shot it at your hand the hole would self-cauterize.

 

[RunForTheHills]

So they say. But I don't hit sketchy websites or open sketchy emails, and so far have not had any problem. Some of my friends who update their browsers regularly have had their identities stolen many times. It's hard for me to wrap my head around. What is it that people are doing online that causes the issues? My guess is that it's mostly phishing, but I dunno.

I did have my credit/debit card get skimmed once at a gas station, but that was easily remedied. The bogus charges didn't go through, my card was disabled, sent a new one in a couple of days.

I don't use Venmo or Apple Pay or any of that crap either. I'm a health care provider, it's not safe for my business.

That's your choice. I am a computer network engineer, unpatched computers are not safe for my business. I don't click on sketchy links either, but exploits don't always rely on clicks.

I don't like the new law and I think it will be amended before 2027. However, if it comes to a choice between sharing my age with applications running on my computer or not patching vulnerabilities, I will put in my age. I suppose you could always do like my wife and lie about your age. But even she has stopped doing that now that we are in our sixties. The intent of the law seems to be to prevent kids from downloading and running games with sexual content.

 

[PCeBiker]

, I will put in my age. I suppose you could always do like my wife and lie about your age. But even she has stopped doing that now that we are in our sixties.

I remember when I was seven years old and found out that my mom was 29 and I cried because my mom was as old as dirt, and would probably be dead by morning?

Turned out that had already been 29 years old for half a decade.

 

[Chargeride]

That's your choice. I am a computer network engineer, unpatched computers are not safe for my business. I don't click on sketchy links either, but exploits don't always rely on clicks.

I don't like the new law and I think it will be amended before 2027. However, if it comes to a choice between sharing my age with applications running on my computer or not patching vulnerabilities, I will put in my age. I suppose you could always do like my wife and lie about your age. But even she has stopped doing that now that we are in our sixties. The intent of the law seems to be to prevent kids from downloading and running games with sexual content.

The first copilot vulnerability was a genuine looking url that could make the AI pass on all your info to a hacker without you even knowing anything had happened, it would literally read your entire PC and send the lot.

'The intent of the law seems to be to prevent kids from downloading and running games with sexual content.'

Ha, yes of course.

 

[stompandgo]

When @RunForTheHills says "hacker bot farm", the hacked computer owner or operator does not have to take any action to enable the breach other than turn the computer on and connect to the Internet. One breach is when your obsolete, insecure BIOS and network driver are taken over by the bot, and your computer becomes part of a spam network. It gets right through your firewall. You won't even notice it. Your computer may seem to be running slowly, and your network devices may be passing an unusually high amount of traffic.