Got a followup?

No?

Didn’t think so.

Were you expecting a reply while you typed the comment?

I know, I have seen them.

I was sysadmin for a Bankruptcy and Insolvency Firm for more than a decade and walked into 100s of businesses on the point of failure. Many of them could not be saved simply because their systems were so bad it was better for a buyer to buy their equipment and start with a clean sheet.

The ice cream business was going under because the partner who had been the access self starter had an argument with the others and had walked out 18months ago.

The access system ran the entire business (accounting and wages were on other programs but the db feed them data) and he was the only one who had any idea.

Shit started to go wrong and they had no idea what to do.

I believe you. I can even guess the story.

In the late 80s/early 90s a staff member (self taught in office/access) quickly threw together something at the request of a manager as a stop gap wile a new proper system was specked out.

The person learned as they went and the system grew in functionality and complexity until the term spaghetti code was a massive understatement. It became their job.

The new proper system never arrived and they have been making do for the past 30-40 years.

I ran into the same thing a decade or so ago and it was a nightmare, but it was just an ice cream franchise, not prison related

The prisoner transport system ran on MS access lol

This is just…Well, if you wrote a prison escape movie that involved accessing an Access DB to reroute a transport you would be laughed at.

Sort of, although Pom is at least a century older as Seppo was coined during world war 2. It comes from the rhyming slang Yank to Septic Tank to Seppo.

It came from the swagger of the US service men in Aus during the war and the implication that many of them are full of shit.

Mate, you are a none track record.

Recent posts:

What is going on with kbin - a week has passed with no sign of any life

What is going on with Kbin

Issues with the functioning of kbin.social

Why is kbin so full of empty stuff?

Why is kbin so full of empty stuff?

Mbin is born - Fork of kbin

True but the problem is that they see 1,000,000s of people using the free version and think they are leaving money on the table by not charging and assume ~50% will happily pay for it when the conversion rate from free to paid is usually closer to 1% than it is to 50%.

Giving something away for free then expecting to make people pay for it is always a winning strategy…

I got the same warning for the original link with ff as well.

Your comment link didn’t throw up a red flag.

Some variation of the below:

Can I have your phone with the messaging apps unlocked?

Can I log into your personal email?

Can I see your tax returns?

Can I set up cameras and microphones in your house?

Can I place a GPS tracker on your car?

Wadda we doin’ tonight?

This is my blanket, there are many like it but this one is mine. (actually, all the others are mine too and I will claim them in due course.)

• The Kitty Creed.

without also blocking iMessage on older devices that no longer receive updates.

My guess at Apple’s response when they do block them: “Buy a new phone”

This is the company of “you are holding it wrong” after all.

It still works

Yes and allowing beeper to MaInTheMiddle your messages does not present any security issues at all.

To the surprise of no one.

That is where I got the (fucked up) idea from.

IIRC: In USA. Teen sent nude pic to his girlfriend, both 16. He was charged with distributing child porn and put on a sex offender register for life.

Nah. then they will charge the child (and try them as a adult…) for distributing child porn images.

My daily driver handset was released in 2014…

Stay on topic: All posts should be related to the Android OS or ecosystem.

Harmony OS <> Android.

I am not surprised.

The description of the app just screamed security nightmare.

It was like a man in the middle attack opt-in service.