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Randy talks about some the rip-offs that are seemingly becoming the norm, and also why your mobile phone is never as secure as you may think.

YouTube TV Cuts Price this time, only ecause they have to.

    -   YouTube failed to reach a deal with Disney (ABC News Live, Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Disney XD, Freeform, FX, FXX, FXM, National Geographic, National Geographic Wild, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNEWS, SEC Network, and ACC Network.) This according to Ars Technica's write-up. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/youtube-tv-loses-espn-abc-and-all-other-disney-owned-channels/

    -   Long story short: Google wants networks to treat YouTube TV like a bigger network and give them good price.

    -   One user, Sterlingdax, commented something interesting regarding the price change:

`Not a subscriber, but if one can get Disney for $14, but YouTube is knocking $15 off current bills, doesn’t it make sense to subscribe direct, or am I missing something?`

- SolomonRex wrote:

    `This is why I’ve stuck with sling. $30 with ESPN, hgtv, food network, TNT, etc, and I have an antenna for ABC, etc. works great for me.`

Toyota making users pay $8/month for an unconnected service (remote start) if they want to continue using it.

- Even Toyota wants a piece of that subscription service pie, even without really providing a service. Absolute bullshit. Hopefully, people think and speak with their wallets and don't encourase this bad business practice. This makes me think of the idea of the "Great Reset" that has been floating around and muttered but the World Economic Forum: "You will own nothing and you will be happy". No, that's incorrect and that sounds like some sort of neo Feudalism. I don't rent. I own. People need to stop empowering tyrants.

Ars Technical source article: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/12/toyota-owners-have-to-pay-8-mo-to-keep-using-their-key-fob-for-remote-start/?comments=1

Stop supporting "Fill-in-the-blank-As-A-Service"

### # Reuters reveals U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware 

 From Reuters 

    -   "NSO software is capable of not only capturing encrypted messages, photos and other sensitive information from infected phones, but also turning them into recording devices to monitor surroundings, based on product manuals reviewed by Reuters.""

    -   There was a graphics processing vulnerability that Apple fixed in September. But, before that, people's smartphones could easily be infected. Since prior to February iPhone were able to be taken over by receiving a deceptive iMessage request to the device (it was invisible!). That mean the user had no chance to accept or deny anything. The NSO surveillance software, known as Pegasus, could be installed.

I'm glad that Apple at least sued them.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-us-state-department-phones-hacked-with-israeli-company-spyware-sources-2021-12-03/?utm_campaign=Reuters%20Best%20Weekly_NWSLTR_NEW_GLOB_B2B_2112&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&utm_content=B2B%20211209%20NEWS%20GLOB%20REUTERS%20BEST%20AWARE%20NWSLTR%20WEEKLY