On 2024-03-12, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
> In alt.home.repair, on 12 Mar 2024 09:37:48 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
><hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:
>
>>On 2024-03-11, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
>>> In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:11:31 GMT,
>>> scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:
>>>
>>>>micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> writes:
>>>>>In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:06:47 -0400, ? Mighty Wannabe
>>>>>? <@.> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>on TikTok.
>>>>>
>>>>>To change the subject, how can tiktok be a security risk?
>>>>
>>>>Because if you are foolish enough to download their application
>>>>on your phone, they'll have access to your address list,
>>>>browsing preferences, application credentials, and who knows
>>>>what else.
>>>
>>> How does that make tiktok more of a problem than any other app that can
>>> do the same things. is China going to attack the US by all of a sudden
>>> making a 200,000 false charges on 100,000 stolen credit cards?
>>
>>It might. Or it might use data mining techniques to launch a
>>cyber attack on our financial systems.
>
> Someone will have to explain to me how having the bank recordsz of
> 100,000 people would enable a cyber attack.

Access. Access to systems. So many people use the same password
everywhere. There are other issues, too. You should do some reading.

>>Or they might identify vulnerable people in sensitive positions
>>(e.g., government or defense contractors) to try to leverage them
>>to commit espionage.
>
> I think I said before that I didn't know if this new bill addressed
> everyone or government employees and contractors only. It's everyone,
> an dthere is already a rule against government employees and
> contractors. Why do they need the rest of us.

How about the wives and children of those contractors?

> I realize the committee vote was unanimous, so the Democrats too must
> think there is a problem, but I don't see it.

You need to educate yourself. It's not our responsibility to do so.

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Cindy Hamilton

On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 11:08:52 -0400, Ralph Mowery wrote:

> It is just a case where the government thinks something needs to be done
> but do not know what to do but wants to do something to make the public
> feel good. Reminds me of way back in the 1970's when gas was in a
> shortage and the speed limit was cut to 55 mph to save it.

In this state exceeding 55 could get you a $5 ticket for 'unwise use of
energy' or some other make-believe non-moving violation.

On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:06:21 -0400, Frank wrote:

> I feel the same way. As long is there is no built in virus in the app
> to infect other programs or steal things like your money in the bank it
> is probably no different from the other crap out there.

I don't do TikTok but I did get a FitBit when it was on sale in December.
I don't know how I feel about Google emailing me a weekly report on my
sleep quality and exercise patterns.

On 12 Mar 2024 18:50:46 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

> I don't do TikTok

But you sure like to talk about yourself constantly, just like your hero,
the Orange Clown, does! <BG>

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And yet another idiotic "cool" line, this time about the UK, from the
resident bigmouthed all-American superhero:
"You could dump the entire 93,628 square miles in eastern Montana and only
the prairie dogs would notice."
MID: <ka2vrlF6c5uU1@mid.individual.net>

On 12 Mar 2024 18:48:07 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

> In this state exceeding 55 could get you a $5 ticket for 'unwise use of
> energy' or some other make-believe non-moving violation.

NO ticket for irresponsible gossiping or blathering? Man, you are lucky! LOL

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More of the resident senile gossip's absolutely idiotic endless blather
about herself:
"My family and I traveled cross country in '52, going out on the northern
route and returning mostly on Rt 66. We also traveled quite a bit as the
interstates were being built. It might have been slower but it was a lot
more interesting. Even now I prefer what William Least Heat-Moon called
the blue highways but it's difficult. Around here there are remnants of
the Mullan Road as frontage roads but I-90 was laid over most of it so
there is no continuous route. So far 93 hasn't been destroyed."
MID: <kae9ivF7suU1@mid.individual.net>

On 3/12/2024 2:50 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:06:21 -0400, Frank wrote:
>
>> I feel the same way. As long is there is no built in virus in the app
>> to infect other programs or steal things like your money in the bank it
>> is probably no different from the other crap out there.
>
> I don't do TikTok but I did get a FitBit when it was on sale in December.
> I don't know how I feel about Google emailing me a weekly report on my
> sleep quality and exercise patterns.

With new heat pump thermostat I get these:

Honeywell Home
January Energy Report

Frank, welcome to your Energy Report for: Home

On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:56:59 -0400, Ed P posted for all of us to digest...

> I never heard of Chroming, but thanks to TicTok, I can now participate.
>

It used to be called "huffing" Thumb in or out?

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Hiram