Ten Minute Tech

This week we finish explaining some of the details behind domain names, the names that identify websites and services online.

Nope, it’s nothing to do with boats and it’s phishing with a "P" and an "H" rather than an "F" but hooks and worms are involved and it’s the worms that are doing the fishing.

What are deepfakes and should you care about them? We also discuss drilling holes as a security measure and why you should be very careful about what you put in email messages.

One of my (many) obsessions is with unexpected consequences and that leads us to talk about Apple’s new AirTag.

• Check out the Apple AirTag.

How to block spam callers and how to torture them, and how software vendors torture users.

• Spam call removing with RoboKiller.

Mis- and disinformation, my grandmother’s navigation, an outstanding book by a philosopher, vaccines, and why buying cheap cables is a bad idea.

• Snopes on Bill Gates, vaccines, and microchips.
• Harry Frankfurt's paper On Bullshit.

We don’t know what we’re agreeing to, is the power company really going to cut you off, should you be your own iPad technician, and how evil is Apple?

• What are dark patterns?
• Can you avoid agreeing to or signing what Evil Corp. asks you to?
• How to replace your iPad battery.
• Yep, Apple is just like the rest of them.

We won’t give feedback, we don’t trust Facebook, and then we get all Shakespearean and ask what’s in a domain name?

• Facebook lifts ban on posts claiming Covid-19 was man-made (Guardian)
• Seems like everyone hates Instagram for kids (Vox)
• Why domain names are the new natural resource (Rest of World)
• Facebook allows advertisers to target children interested in smoking, alcohol and weight loss (Guardian)
• What are the Most Popular TLDs/Domain Extensions? (ICDSOFT)
• Check Out Our TLD List (Namecheap)