Archive for September 22, 2024

Elon Musk Is About To Find Out Why Defying The SEC Is A Bad Idea

Posted in Commentary with tags on September 22, 2024 by itnerd

Elon Musk has been in a running battle to avoid having to provide evidence to the SEC in relation to Elon purchasing Twitter stock prior to purchasing Twitter. Which the SEC finds to be suspect at best. Elon was supposed to testify on September 10… But:

In a filing today, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said that it intended to seek sanctions against Musk after Musk skipped a court-ordered appearance in a Los Angeles courthouse on September 10. Per the filing, Musk didn’t notify the SEC that he wouldn’t be appearing until just three hours before his testimony was set to begin.

“The Court must make clear that Musk’s gamesmanship and delay tactics must cease,” the filing reads. 

Musk instead spent September 10 overseeing the launch of Polaris Dawn, a spacecraft made by his space exploration company, SpaceX, according to the filing. 

The SEC’s legal counsel offered to reschedule Musk’s hearing to the following day, September 11. But Musk’s attorney declined, agreeing only to court dates in October.

And this is what the SEC wants in terms of punishment:

The SEC is seeking “meaningful conditional relief” if Musk doesn’t appear in court in October. The agency also signaled that it plans to file a sanctions motion against Musk to recoup its travel costs for the canceled testimony and other relief. (In the filing, the SEC said that it spent “thousands of dollars” to fly three attorneys to Los Angeles for the September 10 hearing.)

Hey Elon! Top tip. Pi$$ing off three letter government agencies is a really bad idea. Sooner or later they are going to get fed up with your antics and punish you. It looks like punishment is coming. Elon may shortly wish that he didn’t play a game of FAAFO with the SES because he’s not going to win against them.

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Has iOS 18/iPadOS 18 Broken Rogers/Yahoo Email Or The Other Way Around?

Posted in Commentary with tags , on September 22, 2024 by itnerd

Over the last week, I’ve gotten four calls that seem to have the same pattern:

  • The client uses the built in Mail app on their iPhone or iPad
  • The client also gets email from Rogers/Yahoo
  • After updating to iOS 18/iPadOS 18, they can no longer send or receive email

Now one of these calls is a fluke. But I’ve gotten four so there’s something clearly going on here. This could be a bug in iOS 18/iPadOS 18. But what makes me think that this is a Rogers problem is that if you try to delete the account and re-add it, that doesn’t work. When you get to the section that requires you to enter the Rogers credentials for your email account, which is a redirect to rogersmembercentre.com, nothing ever loads. Thus leaving you stuck. It gets interesting as I’ve been able to get all the affected clients working by using Yahoo Mail from the Apple App Store. So if you’re in this situation, you could try that as it has worked for me so far.

And what doesn’t help the situation is that Rogers and their co branded Rogers/Yahoo email service has been a train wreck next to a dumpster fire for a while now. You can get the details here on that. But what that does is cloud the issue because you can make valid arguments that either Apple or Rogers could be at fault here. Regardless, I’m going to reiterate my official advice for any issues related to Rogers email. Abandon it. Details as to why I feel that way can be found here. But it’s pretty clear that you cannot rely on Rogers to provide their users with reliable email. And that’s independent of who’s at fault when it comes to this specific issue. Thus you need to do what you need to do to get reliable email that works for you.

If I find out any additional details or fixes for this, I’ll be sure to post an update.

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A Rogers Email #Scam Using The iPhone 16 Is Making The Rounds

Posted in Commentary with tags , on September 22, 2024 by itnerd

If you get an email saying that you’re going to get something for free, it might be a scam. Case in point is this email using the Rogers brand and riding on the coat tails of the iPhone 16:

Let me get one thing out of the way right up front. No Canadian telco is going to give you a phone for free. That affects their bottom line. So it’s not going to happen. EVER. Thus knowing that, this is clearly a scam. And you should delete this. But if that’s not convincing enough, this might be:

The email address that sent this is not coming from “Rogers.com” so this is another sign of it being a scam. So not that you should ever do this, let’s see what these threat actors are up to:

When I tried to click on “Share Your Thoughts”, I got this on Firefox and Opera. This only worked on Google Chrome which shows that the threat actors behind this aren’t too bright as they are limiting the audience of this scam to just Chrome users.

Well, this is another one of those fake surveys to supposedly get an iPhone 16. Okay. Let’s go down the rabbit hole and see where this goes:

Ten fake questions. Oh Joy.

Great. I supposedly now get an iPhone 16. And if you look at some of the specs, they’re wrong as Apple for example doesn’t have a 200MP camera. But you know, facts.

And look at the fake comments here. The threat actors clearly didn’t spend a whole lot of time coming up with these as they seriously don’t sound authentic.

So this is the part of the scam where I assume that the threat actors would collect your personal information and your credit card details so the can commit fraud and identity theft. But the website crashed and went to Google’s home page before I got that far. I don’t know why. The scam targets Rogers customers and maybe because I am on Bell it didn’t like me? I don’t know. But this scam is something that I can see many falling for as humans gravitate towards something that is perceived as free, and let their guard down as a result. Don’t be one of those people and delete this email if it hits your inbox.

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