From the article:

A court in Madrid heard it was assumed the message triggered alarm bells after being picked up via Gatwick's Wi-Fi network.

Public wifi without a VPN is like sex without a condom. The connection may not be encrypted (very risky) and even if it is, you are still susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks: https://www.garlandtechnology.com/blog/how-to-monitor-encrypted-traffic-and-keep-your-network-secure

I guarantee there will be a flood of articles about this over the next few days because of what I quoted above.

It's also possible that one of his "friends" reported him or something like that.

Delivery?

That's true. But I guess I'm not the only one haha!

Xitter, pronounced "shitter".

Why did they use such an obscene word for this?

"Ploopy"? I would say it's weird (for headphones) and maybe non-descriptive. How is it "obscene"?

Disagree. So it should be an option. The confirmation is the reason I stayed with Connect over other apps.

In every other app I end up accidentally backing out of the app.

I remember when this was a requested feature... Apparently it's how it works in some reddit app

Take one bite now, come back for more.

In the United States.

FYI there's already an active freegames @ lemmy.ml

http://lemmy.ml/c/freegames

Never forget the guy who didn't want to poop for 3 days.

"Massive Trouble"

Step 1 - Scrape everyone's data to make your LLM and make a high profile deal worth $10B

Step 2 - Get sued by everyone whose data you scraped

Step 3 - Settle and everyone in the class will be eligible for $5 credit using ChatGPT-4

Step 4 - Bask in the influx of new data

Step 5 - Profit