What Operating System Does TSA Use?

You know TSA?  Airport Security!  You know Window XP- not supported for a couple of years; guaranteed to be hacked by now.  Look at what Operating System TSA uses:

Got a new phishing email that you should see

The following is a picture of an phishing email I received... very deceiving.  This is from Kazakhstan.  

Google Privacy Practices- as seen on Fox

Some random comments I have on Google privacy practices:

• Google offers more control over privacy than most.  Consider Amazon!  Consider Windows 10.  Oh, you didn't know how much you are giving away using Cortana and the default settings of Windows itself? 
• You reap what you sow:  your privacy is your responsibility.
•  The Fox presentation discusses how you can be tracked even with the phone in airplane mode.  To fix that problem: To turn off the location tracking as reported by FOX- for Android:  Settings.Google.Location.Google Location History.  Turn off.  Google counts on lazy users and the usefulness of the feature.  This feature is no doubt responsible for the traffic reports available on Google Maps.  Do you like the traffic reports? 
• A local broadcaster talked about going into a Dollar Store and buying ginger ale.  After that, she got ads on ginger ale.  First of all, it is likely that the Dollar Store has a contract with Google or uses Google as part of its business.  That is how Google gets the info on your purchases.  Second, you can turn it off.  See this help:  https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en.  
• Some people say that the phone is listening to you.  Well, if you use Siri, Google, etc:  those applications are always on and "listening."  When they "listen,"  the microphone input- the noise in your room, what you say- is being sent over the internet.  Depending on the way the company scrubs the input, what you say could be processed for ads, etc.  It could also be processed to automatically call 911... So good and bad.  To turn it off, you should mute the device.  Search "Mute" with the device name and follow the instructions.  Yes, its an inconvenience to unmute, but you have two options:  Don't care, or build your own voice recognition system.
• Some people complain about the camera turning on without their knowledge.  OK, ignoring butt turn ons, either the phone is infected, you have purposely configured an app setting to turn on, or you have an app setting that is a default that you need to turn off/on to disable the camera.  All of these are not the fault of Google or any app... it is your fault for not paying attention to the permissions for an app or allowing the phone to become infected.  
• So here's the general rule, for Android:  

1. Go to settings
2. Go to Apps.
3. For each App, tap the App symbol
4. There will be a strip for Permissions
5.   On the strip itself will be a summary of what access is being given to the app.
6. If you don't like what it has access to, tap Permissions and turn off the access you don't want it to have.  The App might respond that doing so will disable function and make the App unstable.  You've got a choice:  go ahead and disable and see what happens, or delete the App.  Oh, there are three more choices:
1. Write your own app
2. Have someone write an app to your specifications (Got an enterprising grandkid?)
3. Purchase an app that has the privacy features you want.