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Don’t You Wish You Could Block Fake Emails?

July 15, 2018 by doctordave

Youve Got Mail

Ever since I got email back in the early 90s, fake emails were a problem.  Sadly it’s only gotten worse over time.

You’d think as technology got better and Artificial Intelligence improved (I’m looking at you Siri and Alexa), we’d have figured out how to know if an email message is legit.  We’ve had some neat innovations, but the vast majority of us suffer from email overload.

I loved this article in Techcrunch as it summarized my pain.  It had some techie-ideas of how to solve it.  My prediction is they never will.  After all, we’ve had postal mail for hundreds of years, but I still get junk mail!

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Your iPhone Can Block Spam Text Messages

February 25, 2018 by doctordave

Spam text messages about debt consolidation

The only thing more annoying than junk phone calls is junk texts.  I don’t know why, but they seem like the biggest violation to me.

Fortunately, Apple heard our cries and introduced the ability to block spam messages on your phone.  The tricky part is you need to download a program to help you do it.

This link explains how to use a popular program called Hiya.  Hiya is the best out there, but isn’t the only one. This link explains some others you can use.  Considering most of these programs are free, you might as use something. Hiya already blocks spam phone calls

Privacy advocates will point out that some of these programs upload your contact list to know who is a spammer.  This fact doesn’t bother me because pretty much phone numbers are everywhere.  If I had a bunch of celebrity phone numbers in my iPhone, I might worry.   Paid versions of these programs protect the privacy of your callers a bit more.

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