I wonder if The Intercept will qualify as "fake news" in the near future for exposing things like this.
What (TF) are you talking about??!!
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If you're not joking, I'm curious how long the battery lasts nowadays. Has it significantly declined since you first got it?
It has one of those old-fashioned replaceable batteries, so he could always just buy a new one if it goes downhill.
That's assuming they are still manufactured. With my old blackberry there were batteries on Amazon, but they were clearly expired stock and could barely hold a charge.
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#23i'm still using my trusty motorolla razr
Razr is what the startac should have been.
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#24I wonder if The Intercept will qualify as "fake news" in the near future for exposing things like this.
What (TF) are you talking about??!!
The Intercept is an upstart news outlet that so far meets all of the criteria that have been thrown around over the last fews days for what's now being referred to as "fake news."
-TI is small
-TI is new
-most of what TI publishes makes our politicians look bad
-TI relies on word of mouth through social media
You're really playing with fire if you think it's a good idea to let other people mark things as "real" or "fake" for you.
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> I think it uses the passcode you set on your phone, not the password of your iCloud account. May be true, but > access to iCloud data including backups requires the user’s Apple ID and password. probably doesn't requires the passcode that the user have set, because this data is available across several devices, and the only common thing would be the Apple ID and its password.
If you've recently set up iOS devices you'll have seen it ask for the passcode for another device before you can access iCloud data on the new one.
^ This. First time it happened I was a little confused, but once I realized what was happening I was ecstatic about it's implications for iCloud backup security.
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#27I wonder if The Intercept will qualify as "fake news" in the near future for exposing things like this.
What (TF) are you talking about??!!
People have been talking about shutting down "fake news" outlets in recent days, but The Intercept matches many of the criteria that they have been discussing so far.
-TI is new
-TI is small
-TI primarily publishes content that makes politicians look bad
-TI relies on word of mouth through social media
You're really playing with fire if you think it's a good idea to let other people classify things as "real" and "fake" for you.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
What (TF) are you talking about??!!
People have been talking about shutting down "fake news" outlets in recent days, but The Intercept matches many of the criteria that they have been discussing so far. -TI is new -TI is small -TI primarily publishes content that makes politicians look bad -TI relies on word of mouth through social media You're really playing with fire if you think it's a good idea to let other people classify things as "real" and "fak…
Aren't people talking about shutting down outlets that just make shit up?
I hadn't realized they were going after outlets on things like age and size and editorial focus.
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#29> Apple's Reply: >> Device data is encrypted with a user’s passcode, and access to iCloud data including backups requires the user’s Apple ID and password. Can't Apple ID password be reset? If so, how can it be a true encryption?
Maybe the password encrypts the actual encryption key? I don't know about iCloud but that's how LUKS works on Linux.
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If you're not joking, I'm curious how long the battery lasts nowadays. Has it significantly declined since you first got it?
If he's referring the flip phone, and not the Droid Razr, then we're talking about a phone that had a standby time measured in weeks. At best it lasts probably 10x longer than today's smartphones so even a 75% reduction in battery life is still better than what we deal with today.
It's amazing how long a battery can last when it's connected to a device that doesn't do anything.
Have you ever measured the battery life of a battery still in the package? It's amazing, standby time is like years.