Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Have you ever received an email that looked like it came from you but you didn't send it? Self-spam is happening a lot now and it's usually tied to a blackmail or shaming scheme. Forging, or faking, an email address is called spoofing. And it's easy. Most email systems don't have any security checks to make sure the person in the email's "From" line is who they say they are. With billions of email addresses and thousands of email servers all over the world, it is impossible to verify that...
Delete your Google Home recordings If you have a Google eavesdropping device, I mean a Google Home product in your house, you probably know that Google Home is recording everything you say after the device's wake word, which is usually "OK, Google." Google's default policy was to keep the collected recordings of you talking to your Google home for a long time. Like, forever. But why? The current state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn't very intelligent. So, Google uses your recordings to...
Blocking and reporting spam calls Are you getting tired of getting spam and scam calls on your cell phone? You know; those calls about elections, solar panels, IRS problems, dubious charity donations, energy retrofits, health insurance and all the rest. Current cell phone technology offers ways to block these calls. Of course, the spammers know this and have adapted. Almost all scammers and robocallers use "number spoofing" to make it hard to block them. Just because a number starts with 661,...
Microsoft went back to the drawing board and built Microsoft Edge to replace the aging and vulnerable Internet Explorer (IE.) Here are some of the best reasons to use Edge instead of IE: • Cortana integration: You can use Microsoft’s personal assistant Cortana inside Edge. Use the address bar to ask Cortana questions and get the information you need. If you right-click on a picture in a web page, you can choose Ask Cortana from the menu to identify the image and bring up related pictures and links from the web. • Touchscreen support: If you’ve...
