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GrayKey, the tool law enforcement's been buying to unlock iPhones, appears to work by brute forcing passcodes, another reason to use a strong alphanumeric code [motherboard.vice.com]

You should switch to an alphanumeric password. A very strong one with no matter what phone you have.

PS: It should be like this for example: DYHrBkUQZx7ZpVz

Glad that I got some completed forms that I need to fill out for some cost reduction program that I’m doing for my sister. Very challenging than I thought it would be.

Here’s a excerpt from the book” The Secret History of Mac Gaming” on the origins and impact of Silicon Beach Software's Dark Castle. [ubm.io]

This is so good that I might have to get this book.

This is pretty much all you need to know on history. [xkcd.com]

The EU's latest copyright proposal needs to see a lot of improvement otherwise this is going to be bad for developers, users, and almost everyone but the corporate giants. [boingboing.net]

@literary Hope for the best.

Hugs.

At long last, I finished filing my annual taxes. Man, that GOP has changed things a whole lot for the worse thus it was brutal to say the least.

After testing thousands of Android phones last year, researchers find OEMs often don't install the security patches they claim to install & some also lying on what’s actually in those patches. [wired.com]

PS: Get a Google, Essential, or Android One phone.

In other news the third (possibly final depending on ratings) season of The Expanse returns tonight!

@gtwilson I can see some sort of regulation with lots of leeway. Especially tech companies are donating to elected officials and vice versa.