One of the techniques is called buffer overflow. Where you target a flaw in some software. Computers are logic, they will do EXACTLY what you tell them. Imagine if an image viewer uses an dll to process jpg. That dll expects a very specific header. If this is not handled correctly and a malicious attacker crafts the header to be slightly larger and the larger part contains executable code. This code spills over in the adjacent memory area. The OS then reads this as code to run… and boom you are in.

This is oversimplified and proberly not explained correctly, but its something like that; and that kids, is why its important to update your OS and software.

Sometimes they find bugs like this, that have existed for many years before being discovered.

Hell, I would even have accepted a subscription to be able to use Boost; and I hate subscription based services.

They had opportunity to earn a lot of money and not alienate their users. With profit from 3party apps and companies using reddit for AI data. With realistic pricing.

But Spez (Fuck u), acted like a spoiled vendictive little brat and burned everything down, because of his fragile ego.

Just take a look at the mail and phone conversation, and subsequent lies about what was said; between Spez and the Apollo developer. To see I’m not making this up.

British people do…

Nah, at that time AudioGalaxy was in full spring and I was rocking the MZ-R30 Minidisc walkman.

Again, they dont care about privacy in any other way than the want your data for themselves. Are you really that naive?

Nah, Americans just mistake subsidized healthcare and prohibitive gun laws as actual communism

Go watch Louis Rossman, he shoots down almost all of your Apple propaganda, eh ment arguments.

Oh please, Apple doesn’t give a shit about their customers nor does any other major corporation for that matter. Only money matters.

I feel old now…

Most young people are basically tech illiterate. Yeah they are fantastic with new apps and phones. But have zero idea how any of it works under the hood.

Ask them to transfer a file from a computer to a USB drive, most will not know how. They have no idea how a file system is structured or even that an app has to specifically made for different platforms… e.g. Facebook app on Apple is completely different from Facebook on Android and the two will contain different bugs and different settings.

We are almost back to default browser = internet