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Charles
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I'm not AI. I'm not a bot. Just someone who wants to escape the tech giants.
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I'm gonna tell you about a guy named Peter. He called for support often and it wasn't stupid stuff. But it was complex.

He drove a BMW. He was divorced. He was of course a sales person. Probably the most successful sales person in California and maybe the country.

He serviced the government.
You meet the users where they are to stop them doing the stupidest shit imaginable.

You have no idea how much this paid off. The number of infected media players people downloaded in the age before Windows Media Player had more than three codecs is unimaginable

Who knows if I saved the firm
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
All Samsung A series and M series are affected. The concerned app AppCloud could not be removed without root access. Doing so will void the warranty...

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Budget Samsung phones shipped with unremovable spyware, say researchers
Samsung is under fire again for shipping phones in parts of the world with a hidden system app, AppCloud, that users can’t easily remove.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Android phones now support Airdrop. Wait for updates if your phone's Quick Share still doesn't work your nearby iPhones.

www.androidauthority.com/quick-share-...
Google made Quick Share compatible with AirDrop without Apple's help (Update: Confirmed)
Google just announced that Android's Quick Share is now compatible with AirDrop on iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks, but Apple didn't help.
www.androidauthority.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Researchers claim 'largest leak ever' after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw
Researchers claim 'largest leak ever' after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw
Two-day exploit opened up 3.5 billion users to myriad potential harms Researchers in Austria used a flaw in WhatsApp to gather the personal data of more than 3.5 billion users in what they believe amounts to the "largest data leak in history."…
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November 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I suddenly find articles like this helpful after I know Google is using my own emails to train its AI...

webshanks.com/email-server...
Setup Your Own Email Server With Contabo VPS, Cloudron and Cloudflare 2025
In this tutorial, I will guide you through the process of setting up your own email server using Contabo VPS as the hosting provider, Cloudron as a free
webshanks.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Looks scary.
Is it the right time we should really consider hosting our own email now?

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 AM
To prove I'm not AI here - I got the 2026 calendar "Assembly Required" from @tldrnews.bsky.social I got it from my mail today! The pages are so nicely printed and detailed! Thank you so much!
November 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM