Geekly Update - 07 September 2018

As for Verizon, related to Yahoo & etc for email scanning, I feel all of them do it, plus using Ad blocks only pisses them off & you can't use certain website without turning Ad blocker of. I was receiving 100-150 spam emails using Google Gmail & finally just quit them to avoid them & my life is much better...

FYI- I clicked on the link for the IdeaBuilder 3D Printer, and the cheapest one I could find was the 3D20, for $799, not $600.

Yahoo employees would probably fall asleep reading our emails....however, I do wish I could find out how you can change your settings so you can stop them doing it. I've read it is possible, but never found out how... anyone?

Thank you for the 'Sc*nthorpe Problem'.
I do have a beef with people who use "F-Word" or "N-word"; since no matter what we do, the mind's algorithm still has to translate these types of PC concepts to the exact meaning of the word. So, it becomes like putting lipstick on pig's lips!
I hope no-one has a beef with me substituting the asterisk in my first sentence.
;)

RandiO- Do I have a B**f? D* I h*v* a *ee*? I should say n*t. I'm only slightly offended that you us*d the "A-word". But you d*d is like a star.

Google wouldn't let me use "sneakysnake" as a user name either a few years ago.
Verizon scanning emails is no surprise. Read Yahoo's terms and conditions. After I realized that "all your emails are mine", I moved many of my emails elsewhere.
And what V charges for a landline here or DSL internet is robbery. My woman has a landline with them because she doesn't want a cell phone. $65 a month for 30 minutes long distance. Which is anything over a 20 mile radius. When I had their DSL, V locked me out of their Verizon.net email constantly. DSL SPEED was never over 2mbps.
I traded their DSL for a unlimited mifi at half the price. The other internet provider choice here was Comcast. More expensive but 11X faster than V.

Bob, I'm puzzled as to the reason you repeatedly blame AWS for the data breaches that have occurred on AWS hosted sites. AWS, like any cloud services provider, is in the business of providing the infrastructure by which their customers can set up web sites, databases, and other cloud-based services. If their customers are sloppy in how they set up their web sites and databases, doesn't the responsibility for that lie with them, and not the cloud provider? Surely you're not suggesting that cloud service providers should be scanning their customers' data to see if they've properly secured any personal data? Should they begin policing their customers' data for copyright infringement while they're at it?

EDITOR'S NOTE: No data scanning is needed. Start with requiring a password, and a non-trivial one at that.

Bob, cloud security, and who is responsible for what, it a bit more complex and nuanced than simply requiring a password on everything. If I set up a web site and host it on AWS, it's my responsibility as the customer to determine what portions of my site are appropriate to be shared publicly, and which portions should be restricted. AWS isn't in a position to make that determination for me, or to require everything on my web site to be locked behind a password. If I put stuff on my AWS-hosted site that shouldn't be shared publicly, that me, not AWS, that's responsible for the breach. Most of the breaches I read about were pretty much just that: sloppily managed web sites, with the owners thinking that by not publishing the URL for confidential data on the site, no one would discover it, and not bothering to add on even the most basic protections for non-public data. And if you're setting up something more complex than just a web site on AWS (or any cloud) infrastructure, it's still on you to know what you're doing and secure the portions you're responsible for securing. They give you the tools, and advice on how to use them, but you still need to use them responsibly. I recommend you read up on AWS's shared responsibility model:
https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model/