AFAIK, the Samsung BEC-H series commercial monitors don’t have the “smart” features (at least enabled, probably still exist under the hood somewhere).

Same thing we do with .local - “click here to proceed (unsafe)” :D

Set up my work’s network waay back on NT4. 0 as .local cuz I was learning and didn’t know any better, has been that way ever since.

The ball-scissors…

My god, man!

Oof.

They’re associating it with your debit/credit card, unless you’re buying with cash only. Also, the “identity” isn’t so much the target as the “profile”. Don’t get me wrong, if they are able to personally identify you, the communication will be much more… personalized… (good english) - mailings, texts, emails and coupons for stuff either you’ve bought or adjacent to your stuff (with better margins for the store) addressing you by name, grouped with other purchase-history items. But back to the profile: building a profile of your likes, dislikes, brands and such is valuable data that gets more $ for corporate as the fidelity gets higher. And as it does, the messaging to you gets more targeted.

Just tried the “2nd button from the top” on both right and left at Wesco (Michigan) - didn’t work.

When society started paying for convenience?

As long as first-past-the-post elections are the norm, any political scheme will distill to two opposing factions, because that’s the only way to effectively compete. We must push for ranked choice voting.

To your last point, yes. The average user doesn’t even glance at the permissions before blindly accepting them. It is also true that an alarmingly high number of users/consumers /don’t care/ about basic privacy concerns that affect things like targeted ads, PII, and information that could be used to affect things like credit score.

The firewall I manage at work blocks tor exit nodes and app traffic at the application layer.

Looking at specific vulnerabilities or breaches in a complex, interconnected system wouldn’t be particularly helpful in the context I was aiming for. I was thinking more along the lines of generational education in secure practices. Thinking and acting securely on a global scale to ingrain that mindset in future engineers. Security and ethics courses for high school and engineering college undergrads.

Of course, this all comes down to market forces. Manufacturers don’t have an incentive to do more than the bare minimum QA…

Heres an example of the sorry current state: my son just graduated from a Big 10 school with a degree in robotics and electronics engineering. It was very heavy in programming. He’s continuing on to a Ph.D program. He had exactly ONE lecture regarding secure coding and programming ethics. He is required to have no more. In a 7-8 year program, 1.5 hours of formal instruction on secure coding practices and ethics.

No matter what tool is used, if you don’t start from a foundation of security first, your code will not be inherently secure. I can accept that some tools have more guardrails than others, but we are not teaching foundational security skills and principles, privacy and ethics even at the college level. Until that is addressed at a large scale and applied at the lowest layers to the silicon, we’re doomed to this security hell hole dystopia we’re living in.

Literalists…

I train my company’s end users weekly and your just stating facts. People graduating college don’t have the computer skills that the 60 year old receptionist does, because she took the time to fucking learn because her job depended on it.

I’d piss on Steve Jobs’ grave if I knew where it was. And the propensity for schools to take the cheap route and use chromebooks in the classroom is the next wave.

“Apple just woooorks!” fuck off. Use on-prem enterprise accounting software, line-of-business applications or boutique software, anything in a manufacturing space and tell me how fucking well it just works.

Yes, there are 17 different packages from 25 different sources that you can Frankenstein together to make that enterprise work, but despite the bullshit that comes with it, enterprises run on windows desktop. And Sally, your word processor frankly is the same damn thing either way. You’re not that special.

Uhhh THAT’S a broad brush… I use it, and I’m as far lefty left as left liberal can be, and my family is the same. And none of us are pedophiles to my knowledge.

I can understand OP’s desire to not plaster one’s entire living situation on a public forum. The startling lack of privacy awareness among people in general is frightening. In the 60’s there were actual riots over wiretaps on public phones!

Now we ask the wiretaps that we pay to put in our homes: “hey Alexa, can cats eat pancakes?”