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Topic: ONCE AGAIN, I'M BACK !
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Tue 02/23/16 07:44 PM
Apple is not now, and has never been 'for the people'. Apple only cares about profits and control.

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Wed 02/24/16 04:38 AM

Apple is not now, and has never been 'for the people'. Apple only cares about profits and control.

Then they will have to keep their philosophy about being a secure comp. software company, because if they don't, they will be just like 'Windows'. Now they a fight on their hands to keep it the way.
it is. But it might change in the future. If I was a betting man, I'd bet your life that it will change. Check out Askleo.com. Article 588. Encryption, padlocks and back doors. To see what's REALLY going down.

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Wed 02/24/16 03:14 PM


Apple is not now, and has never been 'for the people'. Apple only cares about profits and control.

Then they will have to keep their philosophy about being a secure comp. software company, because if they don't, they will be just like 'Windows'. Now they a fight on their hands to keep it the way.
it is. But it might change in the future. If I was a betting man, I'd bet your life that it will change. Check out Askleo.com. Article 588. Encryption, padlocks and back doors. To see what's REALLY going down.


Apple's history is not consistent with this alleged 'philosophy of security'. This is a marketing tactic that apple has started using in recent years. Apple was the company that pushed out poorly QAed SSL code, resulting in the 'goto fail' bug which would embarrass even a first year dev. Over the last ten years apple has been consistently late to embrace modern security protocols like two factor auth.

But since apple has been so aggressive about controlling and regulating their iOS platform, they decided to try to turn this into a marketing advantage and evolve iOS into the supposed platform of choice for the security conscious, where they too often rely on security through obscurity. Meanwhile, Apple has been proven to be spying on their users and will not allow third parties to confirm the nature and purpose of that spying. BlackPhone is a far more interesting project, if you really value security and privacy.

Apple does sometimes do the right thing - they need to walk the talk sometimes if they want to pretend to value our privacy - with respect to end to end encrypted communication and with respect to the encryption which is making the news.

But if apple is forced to give that up by the FBI/congress, while it may affect apple's image, it doesn't change much about the reality. Hell, this is a new feature that wasn't even present in its current form for at least the first half decade of iOS's existence.


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Sun 02/28/16 01:20 AM
So what your saying is, they are not much better than any other platform, give or take a little wiggle room to deceive the buying public?

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Fri 03/18/16 08:21 AM
Nou doubt to it.....people use to be like this....first just have some funny staff on the pc then finally they've realize something....then at the end they'll found lies on it.......damn.....what for? Time is short play nake.........godamn.....bill you've own me 1cent for these words.......drinker

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Fri 03/18/16 08:05 PM

So what your saying is, they are not much better than any other platform, give or take a little wiggle room to deceive the buying public?


I meant to speak about Apple's values, culture, and history more so than their platforms. Apple has OSX, iOS, as well as all of their services. The security of these platforms and services varies. Apple has been really behind the curve for years in securing their cloud services.

On the other hand, recent iPhones have rather uncommon and impressive security features, but they are not unique and they are the result of a company pursuing a market, rather than a company that has a history and a culture of valuing privacy, security, code quality.

The people who created Lavabit - those people truly value privacy and security as core values, not as mere marketing strategies. The same thing for the creators of the Blackphone.

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Sat 03/19/16 08:07 PM


NO, I WASN'T MAD, JUST DISAPPOINTED. FOR I CAME FOR HELP N NO ONE WOULD HELP ME.I DON'T THINK THAT I WAS RUDE. BUT LOOK AT IT, NO ONE ANSWERED ME UNTIL NOW..
Chill the frick out and have a popcorn n coke laugh

Im just teasin ya lol....take off the All Caps...it makes you seem like you are screaming.


No, he is not mad at all....Nyahahahahahaha.......Caps lock down please....frustrated

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Sat 03/19/16 08:16 PM

Yes she's not rude. She's learning computers. She's 60. It can be frustrating. Probably English is a second language? Well remember, caps lock means your YELLING!!!!
And when looking for help, don't write as if your trying to put a guilt trip on people. Well hope this helps you. whoa


Oh My.... She's beaten....Uh...Uh...sad2 but lessons should be learned as well spock

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Sat 03/19/16 08:20 PM



COULD YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT A DRIVER IS ? I'm getting a message that tells me to update my driver.Do I need this ?? Also When I sign in on AOL mail, It says pull this button n erase what is on my hard driver ??,Last time, I trying to do things myself. I mess things up.


Yeah, there are some c_guys here but they seem to have missed your post.

Please type 'Device Manager' in the search text box of Windows startup panel and it will display a list of all devices attached to your pc (including your mouse). A driver, normally is a device driver, a software written in low level language like assembly or 'C' which interfaces with the pc's operating system (Windows). Normally this does not have to be updated unless one changes the device.

As far as AOL / Firefox and others, there are no devices except for the USB / modem supplied by your internet provider & that's got nothing to do with Browser software.

I'm on slightly gray area here, but an interface to the net - net is not a device.

So my opinion is that AOL browser software has some 'conflict' with either a previous version of AOL or another browser like Firefox.

That said, if AOL-mail is asking you to press a button to 'erase' some driver on your hard disk drive then it's not ok.

If it's AOL's installation wizard then it should automatically erase / uninstall previous 'AOL mail' version. So if it is asking for something else - then it's v.strange & what is it?

On an aside - I have a suspicion that AOL's newer version would 'read' your mail (like gmail does; cause I receive quite a few 'targeted ads' when I send a mail to anybody on a particular topic') Targeted ads have become a huge source of revenue; particularly now that Google has bought out 'Ad-Block'.

Now if you want to stop those irritating messages go to AOL's 'Settings page' and 'options' and so on till you reach 'Look up updates'. Uncheck this obviously.

If it still persists then as Isaac says getting friendly with the neighborhood store / geek or googling 'AOL updates' could bring in a lot of info.

That will be $10 /-.

Additionally, if you are taking assistance from the neighborhood spider man then they will do their diagnosis right in front of you (in IT this is among your rights to request as a safeguard to private files). Even if it's opening your hardware, in front of you else, your 4GB memory would shrink to 2GB.

that's another $5/-
Now where should i send the bill?



Hmmmmmmmmm....I guess you'd just better donate it...lolzzzz

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