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WiFi credentials maybe but I can't imagine the devices hold Netflix user passwords, I've never encountered it but surely the Netflix API just negotiates an API key tied to the user…

In this case, Barclays are the banking providers of several crypto companies including Coinbase in the UK.

I just used a tool called BIP39 generator on and offline machine which you can feed entropy and it will generate a bitcoin private key. then sent funds to that address. Then just k…

Full disk encryption for one thing.

Loads of third party apps have shell extensions that use control panel and there's 20 years of settings to migrate over. It's getting there.

I manage a password manager for an MSP that supports hundreds of Azure tenancies with dozens of engineers. 2FA codes in the password manager in a shared space is far safer than a n…

You know that new car smell? That's the smell of all the glues they use.

Hotmail hasn't existed for at least a decade.

Because different people have different requirements.

Surely you can just set the timer most washing machines to start it a few hours after you leave? Personally though having washing machines running in an empty house makes me nervou…

You make it sound like it hasn't already been tried. As far as I know every time you remove the social safety nets you turn society into a Dickensian nightmare where the poorest in…

For home office/SMBs routers you can't really beat Draytek boxes. I've had ones last 9+ years and they receive regular updates for 5+ years and are extremely solid. They have devic…

Folders in Windows can be network locations or internet locations without any guarantees on their access speed, makes sense to show to the user that it's still doing something.

No they don't, they usually just use common encryption library and encrypt files directly.

SharePoint Lists is designed to compete with Airtables.

As someone who surveys different organizations networks day in and out, the amount of unpatched and out of date Exchange servers (and other internet facing services) I see is ridic…

Along with what everyone else has said some vendors such as Meraki and Ruckus have separate radios just designed for monitoring the spectrum and making changes accordingly. Groups …

People do this in my company even despite us having SharePoint which has decent enough support for collaborative capabilities and should in theory get rid of any need for different…

It was created by a conman and has very flakey medical basis. I suggest reading up on it.

That makes the system more efficient by allowing more transactions but doesn't lower the total energy expenditure.

In what way is Hawala trustless?

And who knows if it's actually the software they deploy too.

The main issue is a voting system that only allows two parties to compete and makes parties between fractious groups of people with very different views. The Tories for whatever re…

Whats the point of moving away from WhatsApp for privacy reasons only to go to Telegram that also has privacy and security concerns?

Considering that UK businesses will now have to follow rules that the UK has no say in making, doesn't really feel like a great improvement. Especially since UK law was always lega…