Wednesday, April 12, 2023

So are you the kind of person who -only- gets their news through their smartphone, specifically those system notifies? If so, then it's by the Heir's/Tropical Soulvangelical's/TSV's estimation that you did -not- hear about an alert notice cybersecurity experts put out about charging your phone on one of those charging stations at an airport or a mall or any other public space. The alert has said that people doing so stand a greater than likely chance of having hackers access your username or password or possibly credit card numbers. This got TSV to reason that the hackers have already hacked, and in doing so disabled any notifies coming to your phone about security regarding your phone. TSV had continued to listen to business newsradio at 7.30am sharp, and has also reasoned from his listening that public businesses have an interest in encouraging/pressuring their customers into using their charging stations, because those businesses have a relationship with those providers who installed and maintained those stations. To have people not use those stations means that the businesses won't get a return on the services they've paid for. Cybersecurity has encouraged people to bring their own charger to plug into a standard outlet, and TSV also recommends bringing a charging bank for those instances where you don't have an outlet available but you -do- only have those vicarious charging stations available. TSV is encouraged by cybersecurity recommending something old school, rather than that 'retired intel officer' whom TSV caught carrying water for Apple Pay in suggesting tap-to-pay as an alternative to using your credit card strip, as opposed to your credit card -chip-. This all goes to show that if you're relying too much on smartphone notifies as your mostly sole source of news, you're not getting reliable news, and TSV again recommends using an actual radio to listen to A.M. newsradio first thing in the morning.

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