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Old May 14th 18, 05:34 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
David B.[_2_]
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Default Effective defenses against malware and other threats on Applecomputers

On 14/05/2018 14:50, Whisky-dave wrote:
On Monday, 14 May 2018 13:32:01 UTC+1, David B. wrote:
On 14/05/2018 12:54, Whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 11 May 2018 18:53:12 UTC+1, David B. wrote:
On 11/05/2018 18:21, Frozen North wrote:
On 2018-05-11 12:42 PM, David B. wrote:
On 11/05/2018 17:33, Frozen North wrote:
On 2018-05-11 5:04 AM, David B. wrote:
Summary:

Use common sense and caution when you use your Mac, just like you
would in any social context. There is no product, utility, or magic
talisman that can protect you from all the evils of mankind!

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There will always be threats to your information security associated
with using any Internet-connected communications tool:

1. You can mitigate those threats by following commonsense practices.

2. Delegating that responsibility to software is an ineffective
defense!

3. Assuming that any product will protect you from those threats is
a hazardous attitude that is likely to result in neglecting point #1
above.

Do you rely on your wife for protecting your iMac, we all know you
have absolutely zero common sense?

No. My wife never uses my iMac.

You do not trust her with it?Â* She must be smarter than you.

Of course I'd trust her with it, but she prefers to use her iPad.

Mind you, there been some interesting events involving the use of
computers in 'The Bridge' of late. Have you watched it?
http://nordicnoir.tv/tv-shows/the-bridge/

I haven't and I could quite understand the Synopsis.

During a blackout, the body of a woman is found in the middle of the Øresund Bridge, between Sweden and Denmark. Half of it belongs to a Swedish politician, the other half to a Danish prostitute.
I;m confused.


I can wholeheartedly recommend the series, Dave. Series 4 has just
started on BBC TV.


I;m a bit fed up with police type dramas there's so many of them.

In the last month, though, my wife and I have watched
all of Series 1 and 2 and now most of Series 3. Gripping stuff, all
available available on iPlayer!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...es-1-episode-1

To investigate the cases we've seen, there are detectives from both
Sweden and Denmark working together as a team and active in both countries.


Not sure if I want to commit to another drawn out cop drama lastign god knows how long.


The last series - 4 - is going to be the LAST (so I've read).

I;m still confused by this :-
During a blackout, the body of a woman is found in the middle of the Øresund Bridge, between Sweden and Denmark. Half of it belongs to a Swedish politician, the other half to a Danish prostitute.
I'm confused.
Is it the bridge that one half belongs Swedish politician and the other half the Danish prostitute or are we talking about two halves of this one corpse ?


Ah! We're talking about the corpse! ;-)

I found this which may help you:-

• The bodies of Kerstein Ekwell, the chairman of Malmo council and
Monique Brammer, a prostitute and drug addict, are found in the middle
of the Oresund bridge joining Denmark and Sweden after a 48-second blackout.

• Ekwell went missing between 6.30pm and midnight, when her body was
found. She was seen getting into a black Cadillac from which her body
was dumped.

• Brammer went missing 13 months ago, but after a police operation in
which just two prostitutes and a neighbour were interviewed, the case
was shelved.

• Both were cut in half at a Copenhagen slaughterhouse. Brammer's body
was put in a deep freeze.

• The murderer used the car of the deeply unpleasant journalist Daniel
Ferbé, in which he (or possibly she?) then planted a fake bomb and a CD
with a message for the police.

• The murderer set up Swedish and Danish websites to spread his message
– that we are not equal before the law. The servers were traced back to
Copenhagen Police Headquarters, at which point the sites were taken offline

• The message on the CD was recorded by an actor three-and-a-half years
ago, using a script left in a PO Box.

• A note found with the other half of Ekwell's body said: "Had there
been no victims, you would have found no victims."

• Danish detective Martin Rohde has found Brammer's diary.

• There are no clues on Ekwell's mobile, cards or computers.

• The murderer has now progressed to poisoning homeless people by
leaving bottles of wine on street corners.

• He sent Ferbé statistics on homelessness – telling the journalist he
was "a protector of truth".


But just because somethings shown on TV it doesn't mean it's real or possible.


Agreed - but in the scenario I was thinking of it *IS* possible to view
activity in an adjacent property from the comfort of ones own home -
images from video cameras in the nearby property being shown on a
computer screen in ones study/den.


I've just been watching my cat at home on the table from my workplace.
Hardly 'new' tech .


There ya go! ;-)

I don't want to give away what actually happens!


Dontl do that in case I decide to give it a try.


OK :-)

To be absolutely honest, I didn't watch the first two episodes and only
sat to watch the rest at the insistence of my wife. I've found it
gripping - you'll soon discover if you like it; you may end up like us -
watching 3 or 4 episodes at one sitting!

Cheers!

--
D.