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Buying a Blackphone from eBay is a terrible idea
Android Authority (blog) An update to Silent OS, the Android-based operating system that powers the device, is disabling core functionality for some users. One customer in Germany, who bought a Blackphone 2 off eBay, was told by Silent Circle that his bricked phone is not genuine. |
Members of the bipartisan encryption working group released a year-end report concluding that encryption backdoor laws would do more harm than good.
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That didn’t take long.
In an interview published only two days ago by Variety, the head of AMC Entertainment, Adam Aron, suggested that making his company’s theaters more “texting friendly” would be just the ticket to attract more moviegoers, particularly younger ones.
As anyone other than Aron should have expected, reaction to the idea was almost universally negative.
And so this morning, while many media outlets were just getting around to reporting on Aron’s texting trial balloon, AMC stuck a pin in it via Twitter: “NO TEXTING AT AMC. Won’t happen. You spoke. We listened. Quickly, that idea has been sent to the cutting room floor.”
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They have been springing up here and there … and should become a fixture in every community: “Safe Exchange Zones” for conducting the physical interaction oftentimes necessitated by person-to-person online commerce.
The one pictured above is located outside police department headquarters in Hopkinton, Mass., where I happen to live. The HPD tweeted this morning:
So instead of venturing to a stranger’s home, or having a stranger venture to yours, you rendezvous in front of the police station – under the glare of surveillance cameras — to exchange goods and money. (Pro tip: provided your transaction is legal.)
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