Month: July 2020

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Hacks

I was amused the other day by the news that the Twitter accounts for many famous and solvent people had been hacked: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53445090

The scam was: send us some Bitcoin money and we will double it and send it back. Except, of course, they wouldn’t.

Why was I amused?

Here are some people who had accounts affected: Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates…

But who is the most famous user of Twitter in the world? Donald Trump.

Was his account attacked? No. Why not?

Because no-one would ever believe he would generously send anyone free money. Ever.

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Ads

I do at times watch YouTube videos. I know there is a lot of rubbish, but there are clips that are entertaining or educational. I don’t create any myself, and that’s just laziness on my part, so you may say I should not complain, but I’m going to.

There are some things that bug me about YouTube, increasingly bug me.

I hate advertising in all cases, whether it’s posters on a bus, product placement on a film, interruptions to tv shows (I record the shows and skip the ads), spam e-mail, whatever it is. I don’t want your product, whether it’s female sanitary products or vpn services or web building wizards, or anything.

And to be honest, if I did, I’d avoid those companies who advertise incessantly, out of principle.

I left Facebook because the advertising was annoying. I stopped using Messenger – reporting the ads took too much time.

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