I can never understand why people get pissed off when someone does a good thing just because they feel like some other specific good thing should be done instead.

I wonder how many of them might need blood transfusions at some point in their lives.

What large bus terminal is in lower Manhattan? I would think Port Authority is by far the biggest and it mid-town.

The Port Authority Bus Terminal is gigantic and legendary and serves more than one purpose. It’s an intermodal transit facility, not a bus garage.

Could the Olsen twins have been far ahead of us in their quest for mastery of a Baba Yaga aesthetic?

I agree entirely - this article is full of bad advice and misleading statements.

2 Words: Password Manager

This could’ve been a much shorter, and easily written post. I’ll try it out. “CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS IF YOU USE THE SAME ONE EVERYWHERE”, then offer simple suggestions for password managers, to help in generating them, and saving them with biometric locks, like Touch ID. Also mentioning that with the uptick in site…

I took you guys advice last year and disabled FMM on my Macbook - which was then promptly stolen. Sorry, but fuck off. The odds of random Bulgarian hacker gaining control of my mac vs crackhead down the street in a B&E skew one way

You’ve never had your phone fall out of your pocket? Or accidentally left it sitting on the couch/nightstand/kitchen table?

“2012"

3 people, 3 iphones. Yes, Find My Phone gets used a lot. Sure, if FMP wasn’t so easy to use we’d look a little harder but since it is so easy, instead of retracing your steps, you just fire up FMP on a remaining phone and in 10 seconds your phone is letting out a wail. Plus we’ve gotten rid of our landline so if…

That.

...or do as the article suggested and use a 3rd party app like 1Password to store your passwords in...

Unless you are the President or a well-known public figure (i.e. target), then Find My iPhone is not your biggest security concern. Make sure your phone already has a passcode set up, change your passwords occasionally, don’t use the same password twice, and don’t fall victim to social engineering. Disabling Find My…

The idea behind “Find my iPhone” is that it not only locks the device but keeps it locked even after a wipe/restore, something no app could do (since the app will be wiped in the process). If you steal someone’s phone and they have this enabled you essentially have something that has to be eBayed for parts only…

Remember, five years ago, an Apple support representative mistakenly reset Honan’s password for a hacker. Therefore, nothing Apple ever does, or ever will do, with iCloud is secure.

This article is giving bad advice.

That’s true, but not certain that attack scales adequately for more than a relatively small number of devices. If you’re a high profile target, yes, but really can’t see hackers manually calling Apple support more than a 1,000 or so times before the reports come flooding in and that attack vector gets shut down?

So... I should disable the loss/theft-prevention feature of my devices to prevent theft? Seems like a “Dummies Guide” solution, no?