Not really. Anything you do would also likely be something their targets (AI scrapers) could be made to do. I also think this is a lead-in for Cloudflare to charge money for the privilege of being proven human to avoid their Turnstile platform. Create the problem and then charge for the solution...
They got nearly $8 billion in the CHIPS act less than a year ago, and they are still laying off? I'm guessing they lit that money on fire with stock buybacks, as is tradition.
Getting charged to check the balance seems...not legal? I dunno, probably not. Some politician that also owns a payday lending company would probably ensure that's legal.
Yeah, I agree with that personally, but realistically, "your phone was near a place" is not the same as "you were involved". If they hijack a phone onto a Stingray, they can get way more info than just IMEI.
My favorite part of the Harry Kim joke is that at the end of Voyager, he was a captain, but Janeway rewrote that timeline to save Seven of Nine, so she ended up doing a retcon on Harry's promotions from Ensign. Never my captain, that's for sure.
I feel like it'd be canon for him to be Naomi Wildman's first officer.
I don't understand why cell phones don't authenticate the towers they connect to. Is this really just a "standards lag behind modern security" thing, or is it on purpose to allow these Stingray devices to be used?
The crappy design here is that this is called Core. Core implies it's a central or fundamental feature. I wouldn't consider that as part of a paid upgrade path.
I hope gene therapy becomes more prevalent, because these purely academic examples would likely be priced out of the reach of the vast majority of people suffering from these things. Capitalism must have its pound of flesh (or gold).
Not really. Anything you do would also likely be something their targets (AI scrapers) could be made to do. I also think this is a lead-in for Cloudflare to charge money for the privilege of being proven human to avoid their Turnstile platform. Create the problem and then charge for the solution...