They're illegal in the US if they're automated. But if they're sent by a real person, they're legal. Problem is you can't tell if they are or aren't auto sent. But this feature will grab off all of them from unknown folks and keep them from being annoying.

You're citing US law. This didn't happen in the US.

Providing tools used in a theft is different than committing the theft. That's not a hard concept to understand.

Yeah, the fact Google themselves used it for official stuff while allowing every phisher use it to make URLs that looked exactly the same was a huge security issue.

Not sure why they always fail to mention that Anne Wojcicki, the former CEO and co-founder of 23andMe was married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin for years. Your 23andMe data went to Google from day one.

So they're doing what Apple has done for more than a decade. Got it.

I'm old enough to remember. I worked for Time Warner Cable and Comcast both about 20 years ago.

Willing to bet their issue was far more with 10 people using internet on a single consumer router at the time, than with the internet connection.

Still, the mods here should be touching that up before posting to the front page.

What's with all the typos and spelling mistakes in this post? "hackers with along track record", "Sam Curryrevealedthat they"

Who knows. But considering these are all corporate folks, they're all on salary.

The word "volunteer" means they voluntarily choose to work in the warehouse. It does not mean they're doing it without pay.

Nothing in the article says anything about them working for free.

Maybe. But it's also likely that we're no longer in COVID. People are getting out and doing things other than sitting at home. That behavior certainly wasn't instant and instead took a couple years to change.

We've had some municipal internet in Minnesota, but many of them have failed.