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Bombing this meeting in particular seems to be in especially bad taste during a pandemic.

For what it's worth, it likely wasn't targeted. My understanding is that the search space is so short that you can just cycle through it until you find something.

It seemed to me that credit cards were supposed to be fast and convenient, but if you're choreographed for cash, it ain't so.

This is very apparent in (many parts of) Europe. Cash is so much faster there than in America, for a few reasons. The primary cause, I think, is the fact that the prices are generally round numbers, with tax included. This means that you can, in most cases, pay with a small number of coins or bills. In the USA you'd be wrestling with pennies.

That's terrible. What about:

- Proxy settings - MAC address cloning - Port forwarding - Strict security controls - Wifi bands, 2.4 vs 5GHz (I guess this is less important) - Logs

It can even be automatically updated whenever the app’s developers send out new versions of the program.

This is another potential vulnerability. If the app does not check a good signature, then it may be vulnerable to malicious update delivery.

and possibly the iOS side as well

This is exactly what jailbreaking fixes. By default, iOS does not allow you to install apps that are not published in the App Store.

Bluetooth, Spotify, Tasker to automatically choose playlists based on a few parameters, Google/Moto Now to add some manual control. I actually replaced my (busted) tape deck recently with a new head unit, and the improvement is thousandfold. Everything is automatic now.